The Works of Alexander Pope Esq, Band 7J. and P. Knapton [and others], 1751 |
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... once expofed and plundered . As an Au- thor , you are deprived of that Power , which above all all others constitutes a good one , the power of xvi PREFACE . Of a lady's fickness Concerning some misunderstandings From Mr Wycherley ...
... once expofed and plundered . As an Au- thor , you are deprived of that Power , which above all all others constitutes a good one , the power of xvi PREFACE . Of a lady's fickness Concerning some misunderstandings From Mr Wycherley ...
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... once to wave all your compliments , and to collect only this in general from them , that defign is to encourage me . But I feparate from all the reft that paragraph or two , in which you make me fo warm an offer of your Friendship ...
... once to wave all your compliments , and to collect only this in general from them , that defign is to encourage me . But I feparate from all the reft that paragraph or two , in which you make me fo warm an offer of your Friendship ...
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... once irrecoverably be - mus'd , the best way both to quiet them , and secure yourself from the effects of their frenzy , is to feed their vanity ; which indeed , for the most part , is all that is fed in a poet . You may believe me , I ...
... once irrecoverably be - mus'd , the best way both to quiet them , and secure yourself from the effects of their frenzy , is to feed their vanity ; which indeed , for the most part , is all that is fed in a poet . You may believe me , I ...
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... once a poet and a physician . Now , Sir , as to my impudent invitation of you to the town , your good nature was the first cause of my confident request ; but excufe me , I must ( I fee ) fay no more upon this fubject , fince I ' find ...
... once a poet and a physician . Now , Sir , as to my impudent invitation of you to the town , your good nature was the first cause of my confident request ; but excufe me , I must ( I fee ) fay no more upon this fubject , fince I ' find ...
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... once pleas'd and instructed me ; fo that , I affure you , you can no more write too much to your absent friends , than speak too much to the present . This is a truth that all men own who have either feen your writings , or heard your ...
... once pleas'd and instructed me ; fo that , I affure you , you can no more write too much to your absent friends , than speak too much to the present . This is a truth that all men own who have either feen your writings , or heard your ...
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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...