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... inconveniencies and chagrins , more than their small remain of life feemed
destined to undergo ; and with the young , for so many of those gaieties and
pleasures ( the portion of youth ) which they will by this means be deprived of .
... inconveniencies and chagrins , more than their small remain of life feemed
destined to undergo ; and with the young , for so many of those gaieties and
pleasures ( the portion of youth ) which they will by this means be deprived of .
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... sorry , I mean , as far as your loss is concern'd ; for in the general I ever was
and still am of opinion , that had that project taken root and flourish'd , it would by
degrees have overturn'd our constitution . Three or four hundred millions was
such ...
... sorry , I mean , as far as your loss is concern'd ; for in the general I ever was
and still am of opinion , that had that project taken root and flourish'd , it would by
degrees have overturn'd our constitution . Three or four hundred millions was
such ...
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When you barely exceed other writers , you fall much beneath yourself : ' tis your
misfortune now to write without a rival , and to be tempted by that means to be
more carelefs , than you would otherwise be in your composures . Thus much I ...
When you barely exceed other writers , you fall much beneath yourself : ' tis your
misfortune now to write without a rival , and to be tempted by that means to be
more carelefs , than you would otherwise be in your composures . Thus much I ...
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By the end of this week , Mr. Fortescue will pass a few days with me : we shall
remember you potations , and wish you a fisher with us , on my grass - plat . In
the mean time we wish you success as a fisher of women at the Wells , à rejoycer
of ...
By the end of this week , Mr. Fortescue will pass a few days with me : we shall
remember you potations , and wish you a fisher with us , on my grass - plat . In
the mean time we wish you success as a fisher of women at the Wells , à rejoycer
of ...
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At the same time it must be own'd , one meets with cruel disappointments in
seeing so often the best endeayours ineffectual to make others happy , and very
often ( what is most cruel of all ) thro ' their own means * . But still , I affirm , those
very ...
At the same time it must be own'd , one meets with cruel disappointments in
seeing so often the best endeayours ineffectual to make others happy , and very
often ( what is most cruel of all ) thro ' their own means * . But still , I affirm , those
very ...
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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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