The Works of Alexander Pope Esq, Band 7J. and P. Knapton [and others], 1751 |
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... particular fuch as were moft in his favour . As it is not to Vanity but to Friendship that he in- tends this Monument , he would fave his enemies the mortification of fhowing any further how well their Betters have thought of him ; and ...
... particular fuch as were moft in his favour . As it is not to Vanity but to Friendship that he in- tends this Monument , he would fave his enemies the mortification of fhowing any further how well their Betters have thought of him ; and ...
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... particular , as more juft debts , to their beft and nearest friends . However , I hope , you who have as much good - nature as good fenfe ( fince they generally are companions ‡ ) will have * This is no definition of wit at all , but of ...
... particular , as more juft debts , to their beft and nearest friends . However , I hope , you who have as much good - nature as good fenfe ( fince they generally are companions ‡ ) will have * This is no definition of wit at all , but of ...
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... particular thoughts , which receive an additional advantage from thofe which precede or follow in their due place . You remember a fimile Mr. Dry- den us'd in conversation , of feathers in the crowns of the wild Indians , which they not ...
... particular thoughts , which receive an additional advantage from thofe which precede or follow in their due place . You remember a fimile Mr. Dry- den us'd in conversation , of feathers in the crowns of the wild Indians , which they not ...
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... particular Woman whom you would make immortal . You may take occafion to fhew the difference between Poets Miftreffes , and other mens . I only hint this , which you may either do , or let alone , just as you think fit . I fhall be very ...
... particular Woman whom you would make immortal . You may take occafion to fhew the difference between Poets Miftreffes , and other mens . I only hint this , which you may either do , or let alone , just as you think fit . I fhall be very ...
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... particular , that it will fhow me ( to my comfort ) that even a wife man is fometimes very idle ; for fo you muft needs be when you can find leifure to write to I LETTER II . Your , & c . April 27 , 1708 . Have nothing to fay to you in ...
... particular , that it will fhow me ( to my comfort ) that even a wife man is fometimes very idle ; for fo you muft needs be when you can find leifure to write to I LETTER II . Your , & c . April 27 , 1708 . Have nothing to fay to you in ...
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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...