The Works of Alexander Pope Esq, Band 7J. and P. Knapton [and others], 1751 |
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... Should I have protested against it , after the printing , " it might have been taken for an attempt to decry his purchase ; and as the little exception you have taken has served him to play his game upon us for these two years , a new ...
... Should I have protested against it , after the printing , " it might have been taken for an attempt to decry his purchase ; and as the little exception you have taken has served him to play his game upon us for these two years , a new ...
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... should be esteemed any otherwise , than as we value fruits for being early , which nevertheless are the most infipid , and the worft of the year . In a word , I must blame you for treating me with so much com- pliment , which is at best ...
... should be esteemed any otherwise , than as we value fruits for being early , which nevertheless are the most infipid , and the worft of the year . In a word , I must blame you for treating me with so much com- pliment , which is at best ...
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... should have lefs of felf - love ; fo the friendship between them is the more likely to be true , and unmixed with too much felf - regard . One add to this , that such a friendship is of greater may ufe and advantage to both ; for the ...
... should have lefs of felf - love ; fo the friendship between them is the more likely to be true , and unmixed with too much felf - regard . One add to this , that such a friendship is of greater may ufe and advantage to both ; for the ...
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Alexander Pope. I LETTER VII . June 23 , 1705 . Should believe myself happy in your good opi- nion , but that you treat me fo much in a style of compliment . It hath been obferved of women , that they are more fubject in their youth to ...
Alexander Pope. I LETTER VII . June 23 , 1705 . Should believe myself happy in your good opi- nion , but that you treat me fo much in a style of compliment . It hath been obferved of women , that they are more fubject in their youth to ...
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... should give you any disturbance , or concern more than or- dinary for me ; for which , as well as your concern for my future well - being or life , I think myself most eternally oblig'd to you ; affuring , your con- cern for either will ...
... should give you any disturbance , or concern more than or- dinary for me ; for which , as well as your concern for my future well - being or life , I think myself most eternally oblig'd to you ; affuring , your con- cern for either will ...
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Seite 69 - HAPPY the man whose wish and care A few paternal acres bound, Content to breathe his native air, In his own ground ; Whose herds with milk, whose fields with bread, Whose flocks supply him with attire ; Whose trees in Summer yield him shade, In Winter fire.
Seite 190 - The world recedes; it disappears! Heaven opens on my eyes; my ears With sounds seraphic ring! Lend, lend your wings! I mount! I fly! O Grave! where is thy victory? O Death! where is thy sting?
Seite 190 - The Dying Christian to his Soul: Ode Vital spark of heav'nly flame! Quit, oh quit this mortal frame: Trembling, hoping, ling'ring, flying. Oh the pain, the bliss of dying! Cease, fond Nature, cease thy strife, And let me languish into life. Hark! they whisper; Angels say. Sister spirit, come away.
Seite 189 - I should myself be much better pleased, if I were told you called me your little friend, than if you complimented me with the title of a great genius, or an eminent hand, as Jacob does all his authors.
Seite 244 - Don't you design to let him pass a year at Oxford ? "To what purpose? (said he) the Universities do but make Pedants, and I intend to breed him a man of business.
Seite 244 - Now damn them ! what if they should put it into the newspaper, how you and I went together to Oxford ? what would I care? If I should go down into Sussex, they would say I was gone to the Speaker. But what of that ? If my son were but big enough to go on with the business, by G — d I would keep as good company as old Jacob.
Seite 214 - ... me to live agreeably in the town, or contentedly in the country, which is really all the difference I set between an easy fortune and a small one.
Seite 236 - ... to one of the few, who (in any age) have come up to that character. I am...
Seite 132 - Shakespear has it) to dinner, with what appetite they may and after that, till midnight, walk, work, or think, which they please.
Seite 184 - ... not very common to young men, that the attractions of the world have not dazzled me very much ; and I...