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I parted from honest Mr. D * with tenderness ; and from old Sir William Trumbull
as from a venerable prophet , fortelling with lifted hands the miseries to come ,
from which he is just going to be removed himself . your care . Perhaps , 3
Perhaps ...
I parted from honest Mr. D * with tenderness ; and from old Sir William Trumbull
as from a venerable prophet , fortelling with lifted hands the miseries to come ,
from which he is just going to be removed himself . your care . Perhaps , 3
Perhaps ...
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1 , 1722 Octor Arbuthnot is going to Bath , and will stay there a fortnight or more :
perhaps you would be comforted to have a sight of him , whether you need him or
not . I think him as good a Doctor as any man for one that is ill , and a better ...
1 , 1722 Octor Arbuthnot is going to Bath , and will stay there a fortnight or more :
perhaps you would be comforted to have a sight of him , whether you need him or
not . I think him as good a Doctor as any man for one that is ill , and a better ...
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Do not envy the world your Studies ; they will tend to the be fiefit of men against
whom you can have no complaint , I mean of all Pofterity ; and perhaps , at your
time of life , nothing else is worth your care . What is every year of a wise man's
life ...
Do not envy the world your Studies ; they will tend to the be fiefit of men against
whom you can have no complaint , I mean of all Pofterity ; and perhaps , at your
time of life , nothing else is worth your care . What is every year of a wise man's
life ...
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... and care not to mifpend them on trifles . At the end of the Lottery of Life , our
last minutes , like tickets left in the wheel , rise in their valuation : They are not of
fo much worth perhaps in themselves as thofe which preceded , but we are apt to
...
... and care not to mifpend them on trifles . At the end of the Lottery of Life , our
last minutes , like tickets left in the wheel , rise in their valuation : They are not of
fo much worth perhaps in themselves as thofe which preceded , but we are apt to
...
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I beseech I beseech your LordThip to consider , the Injury a Man of your high
Rank and Credit may do to a private Person under Penal Laws and many other
disadvantages , not for want of honesty or conscience , but merely perhaps for
having ...
I beseech I beseech your LordThip to consider , the Injury a Man of your high
Rank and Credit may do to a private Person under Penal Laws and many other
disadvantages , not for want of honesty or conscience , but merely perhaps for
having ...
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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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