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... not to deny me the joy of knowing it . Your endeavours of service and good
advice to the poor papists , put me in mind of Noah's preaching forty years to
those folks that were to be drowned at laft . At the worst I heartily with your Ark
may find ...
... not to deny me the joy of knowing it . Your endeavours of service and good
advice to the poor papists , put me in mind of Noah's preaching forty years to
those folks that were to be drowned at laft . At the worst I heartily with your Ark
may find ...
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Upon the whole matter , I heartily with you well ; but as I cannot entirely desire the
ruin of all the joys of this city , so all that remains is to wish you would keep your
happiness to yourselves , that the happiest here may not die with envy at a bliss ...
Upon the whole matter , I heartily with you well ; but as I cannot entirely desire the
ruin of all the joys of this city , so all that remains is to wish you would keep your
happiness to yourselves , that the happiest here may not die with envy at a bliss ...
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OUR letter , which I had two posts ago , was very medicinal to me ; and I heartily
thank you for the relief it gave me . 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 ...
OUR letter , which I had two posts ago , was very medicinal to me ; and I heartily
thank you for the relief it gave me . 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 ...
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I thank you heartily for the new agreeable idea of life you there gave me ; it will
remain long with me , for it is very strongly impressed upon my imagination . I
repeat the memory of it often , and shall value that faculty of the mind now more
than ...
I thank you heartily for the new agreeable idea of life you there gave me ; it will
remain long with me , for it is very strongly impressed upon my imagination . I
repeat the memory of it often , and shall value that faculty of the mind now more
than ...
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That gentleman is lately become an inoffenfive person to me too , so that we may
join heartily in our addresses to him , and ( like true patriots ) rejoice in all that
good done to the nation and government , to which we contribute nothing ...
That gentleman is lately become an inoffenfive person to me too , so that we may
join heartily in our addresses to him , and ( like true patriots ) rejoice in all that
good done to the nation and government , to which we contribute nothing ...
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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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