The Works of Alexander Pope Esq, Band 7J. and P. Knapton [and others], 1751 |
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... methinks , these are most in the right , who quietly and easily refign themselves over to the gentle reign of dulnefs , which the Wits must do at laft , tho ' af- ter a great deal of noise , and refistance . Ours are a fort of modeft ...
... methinks , these are most in the right , who quietly and easily refign themselves over to the gentle reign of dulnefs , which the Wits must do at laft , tho ' af- ter a great deal of noise , and refistance . Ours are a fort of modeft ...
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... Methinks Strada has given a good defcription of these kind of collections ; Nullus hodie mortalium aut nafcitur , aut moritur , aut præliatur , aut rufticatur , aut abit peregre , aut redit , aut nubit , aut eft , aut non eft , ( nam ...
... Methinks Strada has given a good defcription of these kind of collections ; Nullus hodie mortalium aut nafcitur , aut moritur , aut præliatur , aut rufticatur , aut abit peregre , aut redit , aut nubit , aut eft , aut non eft , ( nam ...
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... ( methinks ) even tho ' poems were diftributed gratis about the ftreets , like Bun- yan's fermons and other pious treatifes , ufually pub- lifh'd in a like volume and character . The time now drawing nigh , when you use with Sappho to ...
... ( methinks ) even tho ' poems were diftributed gratis about the ftreets , like Bun- yan's fermons and other pious treatifes , ufually pub- lifh'd in a like volume and character . The time now drawing nigh , when you use with Sappho to ...
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... ( methinks ) my letter has fomething of the air of a romance , tho ' it be true . But I hope you will look on what follows as the greateft of truths , F 2 truths , that I think myself extremely obliged by you FROM H. CROMWELL , Esq . 67.
... ( methinks ) my letter has fomething of the air of a romance , tho ' it be true . But I hope you will look on what follows as the greateft of truths , F 2 truths , that I think myself extremely obliged by you FROM H. CROMWELL , Esq . 67.
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... methinks , I fee you la- bouring thro ' all your inconveniencies of the rough roads , the hard faddle , the trotting horse , and what not ? What an agreeable furprize would it have been to me , to have met you by pure accident , ( which ...
... methinks , I fee you la- bouring thro ' all your inconveniencies of the rough roads , the hard faddle , the trotting horse , and what not ? What an agreeable furprize would it have been to me , to have met you by pure accident , ( which ...
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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...