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But with all the care I am capable of , I have some cause to fear the engraver will
prejudice me in a few situations . I have been forced to write to him in fo high a
style , that , were my epistle intercepted , it would raise no small admiration in an
...
But with all the care I am capable of , I have some cause to fear the engraver will
prejudice me in a few situations . I have been forced to write to him in fo high a
style , that , were my epistle intercepted , it would raise no small admiration in an
...
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... of some late transactions , but should that sickness continue still in some
measure , I prophesy , it will be quite off by the beginning of November : a letter or
two from his London - friends , and a surfeit of folitude will soon make him change
his ...
... of some late transactions , but should that sickness continue still in some
measure , I prophesy , it will be quite off by the beginning of November : a letter or
two from his London - friends , and a surfeit of folitude will soon make him change
his ...
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Some pleasures are too pert , as well as others too flat , to be relish'd long : and
vivacity in some cases is worse than dulness . Therefore indeed for many years I
have not chosen my companions for any of the qualities in fashion , but almost ...
Some pleasures are too pert , as well as others too flat , to be relish'd long : and
vivacity in some cases is worse than dulness . Therefore indeed for many years I
have not chosen my companions for any of the qualities in fashion , but almost ...
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... some very naughty measures may be made use of . But , Sir , I must give you
some good news inrelation toʻmyfelf , because , I know , you with me well ; I am
cur'd of some diseases in old age , which tormented me very much in my youth .
... some very naughty measures may be made use of . But , Sir , I must give you
some good news inrelation toʻmyfelf , because , I know , you with me well ; I am
cur'd of some diseases in old age , which tormented me very much in my youth .
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And so we ended , unless immediate Revelation ( which ever must overcome
human reason ) fuggested some new lights to us , by a Vision in bed . But laying
aside Theory , I am told , you are going directly to Practice . Alas , what a Fall will
...
And so we ended , unless immediate Revelation ( which ever must overcome
human reason ) fuggested some new lights to us , by a Vision in bed . But laying
aside Theory , I am told , you are going directly to Practice . Alas , what a Fall will
...
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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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