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But till the destin'd time shall arrive that is to manifest these wonders , Mrs. Digby
must content herself with feeing what is at present no more than the finest wood
in England . The objects that attract this part of the world , are of a quite different ...
But till the destin'd time shall arrive that is to manifest these wonders , Mrs. Digby
must content herself with feeing what is at present no more than the finest wood
in England . The objects that attract this part of the world , are of a quite different ...
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I envy you much more at present , than I fhall then ; for if there be on earth an
image of paradise , it is such perfect Union and Society as you all poffefs . I would
have my innocent envies and wishes of your state known to you all ; which is far ...
I envy you much more at present , than I fhall then ; for if there be on earth an
image of paradise , it is such perfect Union and Society as you all poffefs . I would
have my innocent envies and wishes of your state known to you all ; which is far ...
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My thoughts are at present vainly , but pleasingly employ'd , on what I have lost ,
and can never recover . I know well I ought , for that reason , to call them off to
other subjects , but hitherto I have not been able to do it . " By giving them the rein
a ...
My thoughts are at present vainly , but pleasingly employ'd , on what I have lost ,
and can never recover . I know well I ought , for that reason , to call them off to
other subjects , but hitherto I have not been able to do it . " By giving them the rein
a ...
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1 0 5 the present cause of our trouble be fo much greater t . Indeed I want a friend
, to help me to bear it better . We want each other . I bear a hearty share with Mrs.
Howard , who has lost a man of a moft honest heart ; so honest an one , that I ...
1 0 5 the present cause of our trouble be fo much greater t . Indeed I want a friend
, to help me to bear it better . We want each other . I bear a hearty share with Mrs.
Howard , who has lost a man of a moft honest heart ; so honest an one , that I ...
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I have nothing to repay my friends with at present , but prayers and good wishes .
I have the satisfaction to find that I am as officiously serv'd by my friends , as he
that has thousands to leave in legacies ; besides the assurance of their fincerity .
I have nothing to repay my friends with at present , but prayers and good wishes .
I have the satisfaction to find that I am as officiously serv'd by my friends , as he
that has thousands to leave in legacies ; besides the assurance of their fincerity .
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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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