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A Letter of friendship : The disadvantages of an ill constitution . Cona folation in
friends of integrity . Their manner of life in the country preferred to that in the town
. XV . On the same subject . XVI . XVII . On the season of Christmas : Cuftoms of ...
A Letter of friendship : The disadvantages of an ill constitution . Cona folation in
friends of integrity . Their manner of life in the country preferred to that in the town
. XV . On the same subject . XVI . XVII . On the season of Christmas : Cuftoms of ...
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From the same , on the same subject . The state of his mind , and the world's
mistake of his charafter . XVIII . From the same . More concerning men of quar lity
. Of Milton's manufcript , and Agonistes . XIX . The Duke of Marlborougl's funeral .
From the same , on the same subject . The state of his mind , and the world's
mistake of his charafter . XVIII . From the same . More concerning men of quar lity
. Of Milton's manufcript , and Agonistes . XIX . The Duke of Marlborougl's funeral .
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Wycherly shew'd his , even in this last compliment ; tho ' I think his request a little
hard , for why should he bar her from doubling her Jointure on the same easy
terms ! So trivial as these circumstances are , I should not be displeas'd myself to
...
Wycherly shew'd his , even in this last compliment ; tho ' I think his request a little
hard , for why should he bar her from doubling her Jointure on the same easy
terms ! So trivial as these circumstances are , I should not be displeas'd myself to
...
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Our river glitters beneath an unclouded sun , at the same time that its banks
retain the verdure of showers : our gardens are offering their first nosegays ; our
trees , like new acquaintance brought happily together , are stretching their arms
to ...
Our river glitters beneath an unclouded sun , at the same time that its banks
retain the verdure of showers : our gardens are offering their first nosegays ; our
trees , like new acquaintance brought happily together , are stretching their arms
to ...
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It is ill travelling either in a ditch or on a terras ; we should walk in the common
way , where others are continually paffing on the same level , to make the journey
of life supportable by bearing one another company in the same circumstances .
It is ill travelling either in a ditch or on a terras ; we should walk in the common
way , where others are continually paffing on the same level , to make the journey
of life supportable by bearing one another company in the same circumstances .
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Seite 111 - Parnell is in an ill state of health. " Pardon me if I add a word of advice in the poetical way.
Seite 8 - Catechism, as a kind of hint of the order of time in which they are to be taken. The old man then lay down...
Seite 98 - I look upon you as a spirit entered into another life ', as one just upon the edge of immortality; where the passions and affections must be much more exalted, and where you ought to despise all little views, and all mean retrospects. Nothing is worth your looking back ; and therefore look forward, and make (as you can) the world look after you. But take care that it be not with pity, but with esteem and admiration.
Seite 67 - I faid to you in mine about the Monument, was intended only to quicken, not to alarm you. It is not worth your while to know what I meant by it : but when I fee you, you mall.
Seite 180 - Horace their companion, though he had been in arms on the side of Brutus ; and allow me to remark, it was out of the suffering party too that they favoured and distinguished Virgil.
Seite 26 - ... radiations ; and when you have a mind to light it up, it affords you a very different scene. It is...
Seite 97 - ... our declining years, the drums and rattles of ambition, and the dirt and bubbles of avarice.
Seite 75 - Spencer ; and I will take care to make good in every respect what I said to him when living ; particularly as to the triplet he wrote for his own epitaph ; which, while we were in good terms, I promised him should never appear on his tomb while I was dean of Westminster.
Seite 97 - Christian all. You may now begin to think your manhood was too much a puerility; and you will never suffer your age to be but a second infancy.
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| Titel | The Works of Alexander Pope: Letters Band 8 von The Works of Alexander Pope: Esq., with His Last Corrections, Additions, and Improvements; as They Were Delivered to the Editor a Little Before His Death; Together with the Commentaries and Notes of Mr. Warburton, William Warburton |
| Autor/in | Alexander Pope |
| Verlag | J. and P. Knapton, 1751 |
| Original von | Oxford University |
| Digitalisiert | 11. Juli 2007 |
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