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I begin already to feel both what some apprehend , and what others are yet too
stupid to apprehend . I grieve with the old , for so many additional
inconveniencies and chagrins , more than their small remain of life feemed
destined to undergo ...
I begin already to feel both what some apprehend , and what others are yet too
stupid to apprehend . I grieve with the old , for so many additional
inconveniencies and chagrins , more than their small remain of life feemed
destined to undergo ...
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My mother is in that dispirited state of resignation , which is the effect of long life ,
and the lofs of what is dear We'a are really each of us in want of a friend , of such
an humane turn as yourself , to make almost any thing desirable to us . I feel ...
My mother is in that dispirited state of resignation , which is the effect of long life ,
and the lofs of what is dear We'a are really each of us in want of a friend , of such
an humane turn as yourself , to make almost any thing desirable to us . I feel ...
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I think it a fine and a natural thought , which I lately read in a letter of Montaigne's
published by P. Cofte , giving an account of the last words of an intimate friend of
his : “ Adieu , my friend ! the pain I feel " will soon be over ; but I grieve for that ...
I think it a fine and a natural thought , which I lately read in a letter of Montaigne's
published by P. Cofte , giving an account of the last words of an intimate friend of
his : “ Adieu , my friend ! the pain I feel " will soon be over ; but I grieve for that ...
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I was sick of the thoughts of my not having in all this time given you any testimony
of the affection I owe you , and which I as constantly indeed feel as I think of you .
This indeed was a troublesome ill to me , till , after reading your letter , I found it ...
I was sick of the thoughts of my not having in all this time given you any testimony
of the affection I owe you , and which I as constantly indeed feel as I think of you .
This indeed was a troublesome ill to me , till , after reading your letter , I found it ...
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One of his Lordship's maxims is , that a total abftinence from intemperance or
business , is no more philosophy , than a total confopition of the senses is repose
; one must feel enough of its contrary to have a relish of either . But , after all , let ...
One of his Lordship's maxims is , that a total abftinence from intemperance or
business , is no more philosophy , than a total confopition of the senses is repose
; one must feel enough of its contrary to have a relish of either . But , after all , let ...
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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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