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Most people thought the time would come , but no man prepared for it ; no man
consider'd it would come like a Thief in the Night ; exactly as it happens in the
case of our death . Methinks God has punith'd the avaritious , as he often
punishes ...
Most people thought the time would come , but no man prepared for it ; no man
consider'd it would come like a Thief in the Night ; exactly as it happens in the
case of our death . Methinks God has punith'd the avaritious , as he often
punishes ...
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Could that blessed point be made out ( as it is a contradiction in terms to say it
can ) we Thould then be in the moft uncomfortable and wretched state in the
world ; and I would in that case be glad to exchange my Reason , with a dog for
his ...
Could that blessed point be made out ( as it is a contradiction in terms to say it
can ) we Thould then be in the moft uncomfortable and wretched state in the
world ; and I would in that case be glad to exchange my Reason , with a dog for
his ...
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I have done it the rather because your opinion in the case is sincerely mine : and
if it had not been so , you yourself should not have induced me to give it .
Whether , and how far she will acquiesce in it , I cannot say : especially in a cafe
where ...
I have done it the rather because your opinion in the case is sincerely mine : and
if it had not been so , you yourself should not have induced me to give it .
Whether , and how far she will acquiesce in it , I cannot say : especially in a cafe
where ...
Seite 93
Thall not fail to do it when I am not allowed to tell you so ; as the case will soon be
. Give my faithful services to Dr. Arbuthnot , and thanks for what he sent me ,
which was much to the purpose , if any thing can be said to be to the purpose , in
a ...
Thall not fail to do it when I am not allowed to tell you so ; as the case will soon be
. Give my faithful services to Dr. Arbuthnot , and thanks for what he sent me ,
which was much to the purpose , if any thing can be said to be to the purpose , in
a ...
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And add to this the reflection ( in the case of such as were not the best of their
Species ) what their condition in another life may be , it is yet a more important
motive for our concern and compaffion . To say the truth , either in the case of
death or ...
And add to this the reflection ( in the case of such as were not the best of their
Species ) what their condition in another life may be , it is yet a more important
motive for our concern and compaffion . To say the truth , either in the case of
death or ...
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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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