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... full of reflections on the transitory nature of all human delights ; and giving my
thoughts a loose in the contemplation of those satisfactions which probably we
may hereafter taste in the company of separate spirits , when we Thall range the
...
... full of reflections on the transitory nature of all human delights ; and giving my
thoughts a loose in the contemplation of those satisfactions which probably we
may hereafter taste in the company of separate spirits , when we Thall range the
...
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I look'd upon the mansion , walls , and terraces ; the plantations , and flopes ,
which nature has made to command a variety of valleys and rising woods ; with a
veneration mix'd with a pleasure , that represented her to me in those puerile ...
I look'd upon the mansion , walls , and terraces ; the plantations , and flopes ,
which nature has made to command a variety of valleys and rising woods ; with a
veneration mix'd with a pleasure , that represented her to me in those puerile ...
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Of all the impressions you have made upon me , I never receiv'd any with greater
joy than this of your abundant good - nature , which bids me be afsured of some
share of your affections . I had many other pleasures from your letter ; that your ...
Of all the impressions you have made upon me , I never receiv'd any with greater
joy than this of your abundant good - nature , which bids me be afsured of some
share of your affections . I had many other pleasures from your letter ; that your ...
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Nature and Efteem in you are join'd to aggravate your affliction : the latter I have
in a degree equal even to yours , and a tye of friendship approaches near to the
tenderness of nature : yet , God knows , no man living is less fit to comfort you , as
...
Nature and Efteem in you are join'd to aggravate your affliction : the latter I have
in a degree equal even to yours , and a tye of friendship approaches near to the
tenderness of nature : yet , God knows , no man living is less fit to comfort you , as
...
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But that was not my only tye : I thank God another still remains ( and long may it
remain ) of the same tender nature : Genitrix eft mihi -and excuse me if I say with
Euryalus , nequeam lacrymas perferre parentis . A rigid divine may call it a carnal
...
But that was not my only tye : I thank God another still remains ( and long may it
remain ) of the same tender nature : Genitrix eft mihi -and excuse me if I say with
Euryalus , nequeam lacrymas perferre parentis . A rigid divine may call it a carnal
...
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Adieu affection againſt anſwer bear beauty becauſe believe beſt Biſhop body caſe comfort concern converſation Court dear death deſire elſe expect eyes fear feel fincere firſt follow fome friendſhip gardens give greater hand happy hear heart heartily himſelf honour hope juſt kind Lady laſt late leaſt leave leſs letter live look Lord Lordſhip loſs manner mean mind moſt mother muſt myſelf nature never obliged once opinion perhaps perſon pleaſe pleaſure poor Pray preſent reaſon receive reflection remember ſaid ſame ſay ſee ſeems ſhall ſhe ſhould ſince ſome ſpirit ſtate ſtill ſuch ſure tell thank theſe thing thoſe thought thro town true truth turn uſe verſe whole whoſe wiſh write yourſelf
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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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