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Let the young ladies be affured I make nothing new in my gardens , without
wishing to see the print of their fairy steps in every part of them . I have put the last
hand to my works of this kind , in happily finishing the subterraneous way and
grotto ...
Let the young ladies be affured I make nothing new in my gardens , without
wishing to see the print of their fairy steps in every part of them . I have put the last
hand to my works of this kind , in happily finishing the subterraneous way and
grotto ...
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well as you . verdure of showers is poured upon every tree and field about us ;
the gardens unfold variety of colours to the eye every morning , the hedges
breath is beyond all perfume , and the song of birds we hear as But tho ' I hear
and see ...
well as you . verdure of showers is poured upon every tree and field about us ;
the gardens unfold variety of colours to the eye every morning , the hedges
breath is beyond all perfume , and the song of birds we hear as But tho ' I hear
and see ...
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I should be sorry to see my Lady Scudamore's , till it has had the full advantage of
Lord B * improvements ; and then I will expect something like the waters of
Riskins , and the woods of Oakley together , which ( without fattery ) would be at
least ...
I should be sorry to see my Lady Scudamore's , till it has had the full advantage of
Lord B * improvements ; and then I will expect something like the waters of
Riskins , and the woods of Oakley together , which ( without fattery ) would be at
least ...
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In a word , the things I have always wished to see are not a Roman Catholic , or a
French Catholic , or a Spanish Catholic , but a true Catholic : and not a King of
Whigs , or a King of Tories , but a King of England . Which God of his mercy grant
...
In a word , the things I have always wished to see are not a Roman Catholic , or a
French Catholic , or a Spanish Catholic , but a true Catholic : and not a King of
Whigs , or a King of Tories , but a King of England . Which God of his mercy grant
...
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My Fair - weather friends of the summer are going away for London , and I shall
see them and the butter flies together , if I live till next year ; which I would not
desire to do , if it were only for their fakes . But we that are writers , ought to love ...
My Fair - weather friends of the summer are going away for London , and I shall
see them and the butter flies together , if I live till next year ; which I would not
desire to do , if it were only for their fakes . But we that are writers , ought to love ...
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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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