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The highest gratification we receive here from company is Mirth , which at the
best is but a Auttering unquiet motion , that beats about the breast for a few
moments , and after leaves it void and empty . Keeping good company , even the
best , is ...
The highest gratification we receive here from company is Mirth , which at the
best is but a Auttering unquiet motion , that beats about the breast for a few
moments , and after leaves it void and empty . Keeping good company , even the
best , is ...
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So little taste have our common Tritons of Vitruvius ; whatever delight the poetical
gods of the river may take , in reAecting on their streams , my Tuscan Porticos , or
Ionic Pilasters . But ( to descend from all this pomp of style ) the best account of ...
So little taste have our common Tritons of Vitruvius ; whatever delight the poetical
gods of the river may take , in reAecting on their streams , my Tuscan Porticos , or
Ionic Pilasters . But ( to descend from all this pomp of style ) the best account of ...
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Clarendon indeed wrote his best works in his banishment : but the best of
Bacon's were written before his disgrace , and the best of Tully's after his return
from exile . And And every time that I think of you , I FROM DR . ATTERBURY . 95
.
Clarendon indeed wrote his best works in his banishment : but the best of
Bacon's were written before his disgrace , and the best of Tully's after his return
from exile . And And every time that I think of you , I FROM DR . ATTERBURY . 95
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I not only frequently think of you , but constantly do my best to make others do it ,
by mentioning you to all your acquaintance . I desire you to do the same for me to
those you are now with : do me what you think justice in regard to those who are
...
I not only frequently think of you , but constantly do my best to make others do it ,
by mentioning you to all your acquaintance . I desire you to do the same for me to
those you are now with : do me what you think justice in regard to those who are
...
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It is what the best good man living may be liable to . The worthiest Peer may live
exemplarily in an ill - favour'd house , and the best reputed citizen be pleased
with a vile garden , I thought ( I fay ) the author had the common liberty to observe
a ...
It is what the best good man living may be liable to . The worthiest Peer may live
exemplarily in an ill - favour'd house , and the best reputed citizen be pleased
with a vile garden , I thought ( I fay ) the author had the common liberty to observe
a ...
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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.
Bibliografische Informationen
| 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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