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That fiege deserves as fine a poem as the Iliad , and the machining part of poetry
would be the juster in it , as , they say , the inhabitants expect Angels from
heaven to their assistance . May I venture to say who am a Papist , and say to you
who ...
That fiege deserves as fine a poem as the Iliad , and the machining part of poetry
would be the juster in it , as , they say , the inhabitants expect Angels from
heaven to their assistance . May I venture to say who am a Papist , and say to you
who ...
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I dare say your Lady will recollect his figure . I look'd upon the mansion , walls ,
and terraces ; the plantations , and flopes , which nature has made to command a
variety of valleys and rising woods ; with a veneration mix'd with a pleasure , that
...
I dare say your Lady will recollect his figure . I look'd upon the mansion , walls ,
and terraces ; the plantations , and flopes , which nature has made to command a
variety of valleys and rising woods ; with a veneration mix'd with a pleasure , that
...
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I would know how all your hours pass , all you say , and all you do ; of which I
should question you yet farther , but my paper is full and spares you . My brother
Ned is wholly yours , fo my father desires to be , and every foul here whose name
is ...
I would know how all your hours pass , all you say , and all you do ; of which I
should question you yet farther , but my paper is full and spares you . My brother
Ned is wholly yours , fo my father desires to be , and every foul here whose name
is ...
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... I dare say , Lord B * has , because they were certainly both very great , and
very wild . I hope Mrs. Mary Digby is quite tired of his Lordship's Extravagante
Bergerie : and that she is just now fitting , or rather reclining on a bank , fatigued
with ...
... I dare say , Lord B * has , because they were certainly both very great , and
very wild . I hope Mrs. Mary Digby is quite tired of his Lordship's Extravagante
Bergerie : and that she is just now fitting , or rather reclining on a bank , fatigued
with ...
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The chief Reafoner of that philosophic farce is a GalloLigur , as he is call'd - what
that means in English or French , I can't say — but all he says , is in so loose and
flippery and trickish a way of reasoning , that I could not forbear applying the ...
The chief Reafoner of that philosophic farce is a GalloLigur , as he is call'd - what
that means in English or French , I can't say — but all he says , is in so loose and
flippery and trickish a way of reasoning , that I could not forbear applying the ...
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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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