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I am without fears even on that person's account : I think it a bad omen : but what
have I to do with Courtomens ? --Dear Gay , adieu . I can only add a plain
uncourtly speech : While you are no body's servant , you may be any one's friend
; and ...
I am without fears even on that person's account : I think it a bad omen : but what
have I to do with Courtomens ? --Dear Gay , adieu . I can only add a plain
uncourtly speech : While you are no body's servant , you may be any one's friend
; and ...
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pute to the person the most different in the world from a Man - hater , to the
person whose taste and encouragement of wit ... has the same opinion of his own
merit as authors generally have ; for he has been distinguished by this very
person .
pute to the person the most different in the world from a Man - hater , to the
person whose taste and encouragement of wit ... has the same opinion of his own
merit as authors generally have ; for he has been distinguished by this very
person .
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Yet I had no great cause to wonder , that a character belonging to twenty should
be applied to one ; fince , by that means , nineteen would escape the ridicule . I
was too well content with my knowledge of that noble person's opinion in this
affair ...
Yet I had no great cause to wonder , that a character belonging to twenty should
be applied to one ; fince , by that means , nineteen would escape the ridicule . I
was too well content with my knowledge of that noble person's opinion in this
affair ...
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He printed not his name before a line of the person's you mention ; that person
himself has told you and all the world in the book itself , what part he had in it , as
may be seen at the conclusion of his notes to the Odyssey . I can only suppose ...
He printed not his name before a line of the person's you mention ; that person
himself has told you and all the world in the book itself , what part he had in it , as
may be seen at the conclusion of his notes to the Odyssey . I can only suppose ...
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It is , that you will not decide of my Principles on the same grounds as you have
done of my Learning : Nor give the same account of my Want of Grace , after you
have lost all acquaintance with my Person , as you do of my Want of Greek , after
...
It is , that you will not decide of my Principles on the same grounds as you have
done of my Learning : Nor give the same account of my Want of Grace , after you
have lost all acquaintance with my Person , as you do of my Want of Greek , after
...
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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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