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Poetically speaking , I should lament the loss Windsor - forest and you sustain of
each other , but that , methinks , one can't say you are parted , because you will
live by and in one another , while verse is verse . This consideration hardens me
...
Poetically speaking , I should lament the loss Windsor - forest and you sustain of
each other , but that , methinks , one can't say you are parted , because you will
live by and in one another , while verse is verse . This consideration hardens me
...
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... as I do the loss . of my friends . , I fear there are few besides yourself that will be
persuaded by old Hefiod , that half is . more than the whale . I know not whether I
do not rejoyce rejoyce in your Sufferings * ; since they have shewn FROM MR .
... as I do the loss . of my friends . , I fear there are few besides yourself that will be
persuaded by old Hefiod , that half is . more than the whale . I know not whether I
do not rejoyce rejoyce in your Sufferings * ; since they have shewn FROM MR .
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As all human life is chequered and mixed with acquisitions and losses ... Tis
certain the loss of one of this character puts us naturally upon setting a greater
value on the few that are left , tho ' the degree of our efteem may be different .
Nothing ...
As all human life is chequered and mixed with acquisitions and losses ... Tis
certain the loss of one of this character puts us naturally upon setting a greater
value on the few that are left , tho ' the degree of our efteem may be different .
Nothing ...
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Every man , and every boy , is writing verses on the Royal Hermitage : I hear the
Queen is at a loss which to prefer ; but for my own part I like none so well as Mr.
Poyntz's in Latin . You would oblige my Lady Suffolk if you tried your Muse on this
...
Every man , and every boy , is writing verses on the Royal Hermitage : I hear the
Queen is at a loss which to prefer ; but for my own part I like none so well as Mr.
Poyntz's in Latin . You would oblige my Lady Suffolk if you tried your Muse on this
...
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Tis the loss of an object familiar to us : I should hardly care to have an old post
pulld up , that I remember'd ever since I was a child . And add to this the reflection
( in the case of such as were not the best of their Species ) what their condition in
...
Tis the loss of an object familiar to us : I should hardly care to have an old post
pulld up , that I remember'd ever since I was a child . And add to this the reflection
( in the case of such as were not the best of their Species ) what their condition in
...
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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.
Bibliografische Informationen
| 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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