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Not but that the four first lines are good , especially the second couplet ; and
might , if followed by four others as good , give reputation to a writer of a less
established fame : but from you I expect something of a more perfect kind , and
which the ...
Not but that the four first lines are good , especially the second couplet ; and
might , if followed by four others as good , give reputation to a writer of a less
established fame : but from you I expect something of a more perfect kind , and
which the ...
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I beg therefore you would represent thus much at least to her Grace , that as to
the fear she seems touch'd with , [ That the Duke's memory should have no
advantage but what he must give himself , without being beholden to any one
friend ] ...
I beg therefore you would represent thus much at least to her Grace , that as to
the fear she seems touch'd with , [ That the Duke's memory should have no
advantage but what he must give himself , without being beholden to any one
friend ] ...
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... tranquillity , rather of your own giving to yourself , than from any expectations or
trust in others . May you and I live together , without wishing more felicity or
acquisitions than Friendship can give and receive without obligations to
Greatness .
... tranquillity , rather of your own giving to yourself , than from any expectations or
trust in others . May you and I live together , without wishing more felicity or
acquisitions than Friendship can give and receive without obligations to
Greatness .
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Princes indeed , and Peers ( the lackies of Princes ) and Ladies ( the fools of
peers ) will smile on you the less ; but men of worth , and real friends will look on
you the better . There is a thing , the only thing which Kings and Queens cannot
give ...
Princes indeed , and Peers ( the lackies of Princes ) and Ladies ( the fools of
peers ) will smile on you the less ; but men of worth , and real friends will look on
you the better . There is a thing , the only thing which Kings and Queens cannot
give ...
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Will you give me leave to add , there are the same in Divinity ; where many
leading Critics are for rooting up more than they plant , and would leave the
Lord's Vineyard either very thinly fur , nilh'd , or very oddly trimm'd . I have lately
been with ...
Will you give me leave to add , there are the same in Divinity ; where many
leading Critics are for rooting up more than they plant , and would leave the
Lord's Vineyard either very thinly fur , nilh'd , or very oddly trimm'd . I have lately
been with ...
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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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