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But I know you have prevented me in this thought , as you always will in any thing
that is good , or generous : 1 find by a letter of your lady's ( which I have seen )
that their ease and tranquillity is part of I believe there's some fatality in it , that ...
But I know you have prevented me in this thought , as you always will in any thing
that is good , or generous : 1 find by a letter of your lady's ( which I have seen )
that their ease and tranquillity is part of I believe there's some fatality in it , that ...
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The poor man is highly concerned to vindicate Jeffery's veracity as an historian ;
and told me he was perfectly astonished , we of the Roman communion could
doubt of the legends of his Giants , while we believe those of our Saints .
The poor man is highly concerned to vindicate Jeffery's veracity as an historian ;
and told me he was perfectly astonished , we of the Roman communion could
doubt of the legends of his Giants , while we believe those of our Saints .
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... we can never believe : our uninform'd minds represent her so noble to us , that
we necessarily annex splendor to her ... we could as soon ima gine the order of
things inverted , and that there is no man in the moon , as believe the contrary .
... we can never believe : our uninform'd minds represent her so noble to us , that
we necessarily annex splendor to her ... we could as soon ima gine the order of
things inverted , and that there is no man in the moon , as believe the contrary .
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He is a star that looks as if it were all fire , but is all benignity , all gentle and
beneficial influence . If there be other men in the world that would serve a friend ,
yet he is the only one , I believe , that could make even an enemy serve a friend .
He is a star that looks as if it were all fire , but is all benignity , all gentle and
beneficial influence . If there be other men in the world that would serve a friend ,
yet he is the only one , I believe , that could make even an enemy serve a friend .
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I cannot help , thinking them the product of some Woman's imagination : and ,
believe me , I would do any thing but break with you , rather than be bound to
read them over with attention . I am sorry that I was so true a prophet in respect of
the ...
I cannot help , thinking them the product of some Woman's imagination : and ,
believe me , I would do any thing but break with you , rather than be bound to
read them over with attention . I am sorry that I was so true a prophet in respect of
the ...
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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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