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So trivial as these circumstances are , I should not be displeas'd myself to know
such trifles , when they concern or characterise any eminent perfon The wifest
and wittiest of men are seldom wiser or wittier than others in these fober moments
...
So trivial as these circumstances are , I should not be displeas'd myself to know
such trifles , when they concern or characterise any eminent perfon The wifest
and wittiest of men are seldom wiser or wittier than others in these fober moments
...
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Indeed I truly partake in any degree of concern that affects you , and I wish every
thing may succeed as you desire in your own family , and in that which , I think ,
you no less account your own , and is no less your family , the whole world : for I ...
Indeed I truly partake in any degree of concern that affects you , and I wish every
thing may succeed as you desire in your own family , and in that which , I think ,
you no less account your own , and is no less your family , the whole world : for I ...
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The Duchess's * letter concerns me nearly , and you know it , who know all my
thoughts without disguise : I must keep clear of Flattery ; I will : and as this is an
honest resolution , I dare hope , your Lordship will not be so unconcern'd for my ...
The Duchess's * letter concerns me nearly , and you know it , who know all my
thoughts without disguise : I must keep clear of Flattery ; I will : and as this is an
honest resolution , I dare hope , your Lordship will not be so unconcern'd for my ...
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politics were never your concern . If you'area Whig , as I rather hope , and , as I
think , : your principles and mine ! ( as brother poets ) had ever a bias to the side
of Liberty , I know you will be an honest man , and an inoffensive one . Upon the ...
politics were never your concern . If you'area Whig , as I rather hope , and , as I
think , : your principles and mine ! ( as brother poets ) had ever a bias to the side
of Liberty , I know you will be an honest man , and an inoffensive one . Upon the ...
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To be serious , you and Mr. Congrève and the Doctor will be fensible of my
concern and surprize at his commitment , whose welfare is as much my concern
as any friend's I have .. I think myfelf a Live well , and fear no sudden fate ; When
God ...
To be serious , you and Mr. Congrève and the Doctor will be fensible of my
concern and surprize at his commitment , whose welfare is as much my concern
as any friend's I have .. I think myfelf a Live well , and fear no sudden fate ; When
God ...
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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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