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Tis a great many years since I fell in love with the character of Pomponius Atticus
: I long'd to imitate him a little , and have contriv'd hitherto , to be , like him ,
engaged in no party , but to be a faithful friend to some in both : I find myself very
well ...
Tis a great many years since I fell in love with the character of Pomponius Atticus
: I long'd to imitate him a little , and have contriv'd hitherto , to be , like him ,
engaged in no party , but to be a faithful friend to some in both : I find myself very
well ...
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Thank you for all the instances of your friendship , both before , and since my
misfortunes . A little time will complete them , and separate you and me for ever .
But in what part of the world soever I am , I will live mindful of your sincere
kindness ...
Thank you for all the instances of your friendship , both before , and since my
misfortunes . A little time will complete them , and separate you and me for ever .
But in what part of the world soever I am , I will live mindful of your sincere
kindness ...
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That hindered my answering you , and I have since leveral times inquired of you ,
without any fatisfaction ; for so I call the knowledge of your welfare , or of any
thing that concerns you . I past two months in Sullex , and since my return have ...
That hindered my answering you , and I have since leveral times inquired of you ,
without any fatisfaction ; for so I call the knowledge of your welfare , or of any
thing that concerns you . I past two months in Sullex , and since my return have ...
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The injury done you in withdrawing myself could be but finall , if the value you
had for me was no greater than you have been pleas'd since to profess . But
furely , my Lord , one may fay , neither the Revenge , nor the Language you held ,
bore ...
The injury done you in withdrawing myself could be but finall , if the value you
had for me was no greater than you have been pleas'd since to profess . But
furely , my Lord , one may fay , neither the Revenge , nor the Language you held ,
bore ...
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I can only suppose your Lordship ( not having at that time forgot your Greek )
despis'd to look upon the Transation ; and ever since entertain'd too mean an
Opinion of the Translator to cast an eye upon it . Besides , my Lord , when you
faid he ...
I can only suppose your Lordship ( not having at that time forgot your Greek )
despis'd to look upon the Transation ; and ever since entertain'd too mean an
Opinion of the Translator to cast an eye upon it . Besides , my Lord , when you
faid he ...
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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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