Letters of Mr. Alexander Pope, and Several of His FriendsJ. Wright, 1737 - 306 Seiten |
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... poor writers as I are but beggars , no beggar is so poor but he can keep a cur , and no author is so beggarly but he can keep a critic . I am far from thinking the attacks of fuch people would be either any Honour or Dishonour even to ...
... poor writers as I are but beggars , no beggar is so poor but he can keep a cur , and no author is so beggarly but he can keep a critic . I am far from thinking the attacks of fuch people would be either any Honour or Dishonour even to ...
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... poor Sancho Panca : they persuaded him that he enjoy'd a great dominion , and then gave him nothing to fubfift upon but wafers and marmalade . our days , the greatest obligation you can lay upon a Wit , is to make a fool of him . For as ...
... poor Sancho Panca : they persuaded him that he enjoy'd a great dominion , and then gave him nothing to fubfift upon but wafers and marmalade . our days , the greatest obligation you can lay upon a Wit , is to make a fool of him . For as ...
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... poor , poetical gallant , that a Queen , if she had to do with a groom , would expect a mark of his kindness from him , tho ' it were but his curry - comb . But you and I will dispute this matter when I am fo happy as to fee you here ...
... poor , poetical gallant , that a Queen , if she had to do with a groom , would expect a mark of his kindness from him , tho ' it were but his curry - comb . But you and I will dispute this matter when I am fo happy as to fee you here ...
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... poor Mr. Betterton is going to make his Exit from the ftage of this world , the gout be- ing gotten up into his head , and ( as the Physicians fay ) will cer- tainly carry him off suddenly . LETTER XIV . The Anfwer . May 2 , 1710 . I AM ...
... poor Mr. Betterton is going to make his Exit from the ftage of this world , the gout be- ing gotten up into his head , and ( as the Physicians fay ) will cer- tainly carry him off suddenly . LETTER XIV . The Anfwer . May 2 , 1710 . I AM ...
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... poor , old , difguis'd , alone , To all his friends , and ev'n bis Queen , unknown , Chang'd as he was , with age , and toils , and cares , Furrow'd his rev'rend face , and white his hairs , In his own Palace forc'd to ask his bread ...
... poor , old , difguis'd , alone , To all his friends , and ev'n bis Queen , unknown , Chang'd as he was , with age , and toils , and cares , Furrow'd his rev'rend face , and white his hairs , In his own Palace forc'd to ask his bread ...
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Seite 262 - ... with agreeable hopes ; or melancholy with dejection, contemplative of the changes of fortune, and doubtful for the future: Whether returned a triumphant Whig, or a desponding Tory, equally all hail!
Seite 323 - I now lodge with) he has too much Wit, as well as Courage, to make a solid General; and if he escapes being banished by others, I fear he will banish himself.
Seite 266 - It was but this very morning that he had obtained her parents' consent, and it was but till the next week that they were to wait to be happy. Perhaps...
Seite 203 - ... the common kinds, as cherries, apricots, peaches, &c. they produce oranges, limes, almonds, pomegranates, figs, water-melons, and many other fruits unknown to our climates, which lie every where open to the paflenger.
Seite 307 - Lordfhip : you, while your imagination is carrying you through every corner of the world, where you have or have not been, can at the fame time remember to do offices of favour and kindnefs to the meaneft of your friends ; and...
Seite 142 - ... tone) that it was eleven at night. All this was no ill preparation to the life I have led since, among those old...
Seite 204 - The inhabitants of this delicious isle, as they are without riches and honours, so are they without the vices and follies that attend them ; and were they but as much...
Seite 101 - ... an advantage not very common to young men, that the attractions of the world have not dazzled me very much...
Seite 142 - I wanted nothing but a black gown and a salary to be as mere a bookworm as any there. I conformed...
Seite 329 - Your notions of friendship are new to me : I believe every man is born with his quantum ; and he cannot give to one without robbing another.