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I am sure , if all Whigs and all Tories had the spirit of one Roman Catholic that I
know , it would be well for all Roman Catholics ; and if all Roman Catholics had
always had that spirit , it had been well for all others , and we had never been ...
I am sure , if all Whigs and all Tories had the spirit of one Roman Catholic that I
know , it would be well for all Roman Catholics ; and if all Roman Catholics had
always had that spirit , it had been well for all others , and we had never been ...
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... the contemplation of those satisfactions which probably we may hereafter taste
in the company of separate spirits , when we Thall range the walks above , and
perhaps gaze on this world åt as vast a distance as we now do on those worlds .
... the contemplation of those satisfactions which probably we may hereafter taste
in the company of separate spirits , when we Thall range the walks above , and
perhaps gaze on this world åt as vast a distance as we now do on those worlds .
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If therefore you are ever moved on my account by that spirit , which I take to be as
familiar to you as a quotidian ague , I mean the spirit of goodness , pray never
stint it , in any fear of obliging me to a civility beyond my natural inclination .
If therefore you are ever moved on my account by that spirit , which I take to be as
familiar to you as a quotidian ague , I mean the spirit of goodness , pray never
stint it , in any fear of obliging me to a civility beyond my natural inclination .
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The spirit of Philanthropy , so long dead to our world , is revived in him : he is a
philosopher all of fire ; so warmly , nay so wildly in the right , that he forces all
others about him to be fo too , and draws them into his own Vortex . He is a star
that ...
The spirit of Philanthropy , so long dead to our world , is revived in him : he is a
philosopher all of fire ; so warmly , nay so wildly in the right , that he forces all
others about him to be fo too , and draws them into his own Vortex . He is a star
that ...
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I must beg you to give Mrs. B. my fincere thanks for her kind way of thinking of me
,, which I have heard of more than once from our friend at court , who seein'd in
the letter she writ to be in high health and spirits . Considering the multiplicity of ...
I must beg you to give Mrs. B. my fincere thanks for her kind way of thinking of me
,, which I have heard of more than once from our friend at court , who seein'd in
the letter she writ to be in high health and spirits . Considering the multiplicity of ...
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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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