Letters of Mr. Alexander Pope, and Several of His FriendsJ. Wright, 1737 - 306 Seiten |
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... these Gentlemen has told me he will one day vindicate him . * I suppose those injuries were begun by the violence of Party , but ' tis no doubt they were continued by Envy at his fuccefs and fame : And thofe Scriblers who attacked him ...
... these Gentlemen has told me he will one day vindicate him . * I suppose those injuries were begun by the violence of Party , but ' tis no doubt they were continued by Envy at his fuccefs and fame : And thofe Scriblers who attacked him ...
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... these are most in the right , who quietly and easily refign themselves over to the gentle reign of dulnefs , which the Wits muft do at laft , tho ' after a great deal of noise , and refiftance . Ours are a fort of modeft , inoffenfive ...
... these are most in the right , who quietly and easily refign themselves over to the gentle reign of dulnefs , which the Wits muft do at laft , tho ' after a great deal of noise , and refiftance . Ours are a fort of modeft , inoffenfive ...
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... These are good reasons for my own ftay here , but I wish I could give you any for your coming hither , except that I earnestly in- vite you . And yet I can't help faying I have fuffered a great deal of discontent that you do not come ...
... These are good reasons for my own ftay here , but I wish I could give you any for your coming hither , except that I earnestly in- vite you . And yet I can't help faying I have fuffered a great deal of discontent that you do not come ...
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... these return fo much better out of your hands than they went from mine ) for I intended ( as I told you formerly ) to spend a month or fix weeks this fummer near you in the country . You may be affured there is nothing I defire so much ...
... these return fo much better out of your hands than they went from mine ) for I intended ( as I told you formerly ) to spend a month or fix weeks this fummer near you in the country . You may be affured there is nothing I defire so much ...
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... these that are yet unprinted . ' till you I send you a fample of fome few of these ; namely , the verfes to Mr. Waller in his old age ; your new ones on the Duke of Marlborough , and two others . I have done all that I thought could be ...
... these that are yet unprinted . ' till you I send you a fample of fome few of these ; namely , the verfes to Mr. Waller in his old age ; your new ones on the Duke of Marlborough , and two others . I have done all that I thought could be ...
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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.