The Works of Alexander Pope Esq, Band 7J. and P. Knapton [and others], 1751 |
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... conversation but hers , fo a man in love with himself ( as most mẹn are ) may be best pleased with his own . Befides , if the truest and most useful knowledge be the know- ledge of ourselves , folitude , conducing moft to make us look ...
... conversation but hers , fo a man in love with himself ( as most mẹn are ) may be best pleased with his own . Befides , if the truest and most useful knowledge be the know- ledge of ourselves , folitude , conducing moft to make us look ...
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... conversation , of feathers in the crowns of the wild Indians , which they not only chufe for the beauty of their colours , but place them in fuch a manner as to reflect a luftre on each other . I will not disguise any of my fentiments ...
... conversation , of feathers in the crowns of the wild Indians , which they not only chufe for the beauty of their colours , but place them in fuch a manner as to reflect a luftre on each other . I will not disguise any of my fentiments ...
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... my own hermitage , from Mr. C's , who has done me so many favours , that I am almost inclin'd to think my friends infect one ano- ther , ther , and that your conversation with him has made- FROM H. CROMWELL , Esq . 77.
... my own hermitage , from Mr. C's , who has done me so many favours , that I am almost inclin'd to think my friends infect one ano- ther , ther , and that your conversation with him has made- FROM H. CROMWELL , Esq . 77.
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Alexander Pope. ther , and that your conversation with him has made- him as obliging to me as yourself . I can affure you , he has a fincere respect for you , and this , I believe , he has partly contracted from me , who am too full of ...
Alexander Pope. ther , and that your conversation with him has made- him as obliging to me as yourself . I can affure you , he has a fincere respect for you , and this , I believe , he has partly contracted from me , who am too full of ...
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... conversation of the country gentlemen and their tenants ( who differ but in dress and name ) which , if it be there as bad as here , is even worse than my poetry . I hope your stay there will be no longer than ( as Mr. Wycherley calls ...
... conversation of the country gentlemen and their tenants ( who differ but in dress and name ) which , if it be there as bad as here , is even worse than my poetry . I hope your stay there will be no longer than ( as Mr. Wycherley calls ...
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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...