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Sickness is a great oppreffor ; it does great injury to a zealous heart , stilling its
warmth , and not suffering it to break out in action . But , I hope , I shall not make
this complaint much longer . I have other hopes that please me too , tho ' not so ...
Sickness is a great oppreffor ; it does great injury to a zealous heart , stilling its
warmth , and not suffering it to break out in action . But , I hope , I shall not make
this complaint much longer . I have other hopes that please me too , tho ' not so ...
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Indeed they do not please my tafte : they are writ with fo romantic an air , and ,
allowing for the difference of eastern manners , are yet , upon any supposition
that can be made , of so wild and absurd a contrivance ( at least to my northern ...
Indeed they do not please my tafte : they are writ with fo romantic an air , and ,
allowing for the difference of eastern manners , are yet , upon any supposition
that can be made , of so wild and absurd a contrivance ( at least to my northern ...
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... have been guilty again of another mistake , which hinder'd me showing your
letter to a friend ; when you join two ladies in the same compliment , tho ' you
gave to both the beauty of Venus and the wit of Minerva , you would please
neither .
... have been guilty again of another mistake , which hinder'd me showing your
letter to a friend ; when you join two ladies in the same compliment , tho ' you
gave to both the beauty of Venus and the wit of Minerva , you would please
neither .
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... was any hopes of doing good by either ; with the latter all other Conjugal
virtues . The man of finest fenfe and sharpeft difcernment , she had the happiness
to please ; and in that , found her her only pleasure . When he died , it seemed (
182 )
... was any hopes of doing good by either ; with the latter all other Conjugal
virtues . The man of finest fenfe and sharpeft difcernment , she had the happiness
to please ; and in that , found her her only pleasure . When he died , it seemed (
182 )
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But as to my Father , I could assure you , my Lord , that he was no mechanic (
neither a hatter , nor , which might please your Lordihip yet better , a Cobler ) but
in truth , of a very tolerable family : And my Mother of an ancient one , as well
born ...
But as to my Father , I could assure you , my Lord , that he was no mechanic (
neither a hatter , nor , which might please your Lordihip yet better , a Cobler ) but
in truth , of a very tolerable family : And my Mother of an ancient one , as well
born ...
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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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