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If I was born under an absolute Prince , I would be a quiet subject ; but I thank
God I was not . I have a due sense of the excellence of the British constitution . In
a word , the things I have always wished to see are not a Roman Catholic , or a ...
If I was born under an absolute Prince , I would be a quiet subject ; but I thank
God I was not . I have a due sense of the excellence of the British constitution . In
a word , the things I have always wished to see are not a Roman Catholic , or a ...
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I am now , I thank God ! as well as ever I was in my life , except that I can walk
scarce at all without crutches : And I would willingly compound the matter with the
gout , to be no better , could I hope to be no worse ; but that is a vain thought , I ...
I am now , I thank God ! as well as ever I was in my life , except that I can walk
scarce at all without crutches : And I would willingly compound the matter with the
gout , to be no better , could I hope to be no worse ; but that is a vain thought , I ...
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I thank you and Mrs. Pope for my kind reception , which has left a pleasing
impression upon me that will not soon be effaced . Ļord * has press'd me terribly
to see him at * and told me in a manner betwixt kindness and resentment , that it
is but ...
I thank you and Mrs. Pope for my kind reception , which has left a pleasing
impression upon me that will not soon be effaced . Ļord * has press'd me terribly
to see him at * and told me in a manner betwixt kindness and resentment , that it
is but ...
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I can only thank you , my Lord , for the kind transition you make from common
business , to that which is the only real bufiness of every reasonable creature .
Indeed I think more of it than you imagine , tho ' not so much as I ought . I am
pleas'd ...
I can only thank you , my Lord , for the kind transition you make from common
business , to that which is the only real bufiness of every reasonable creature .
Indeed I think more of it than you imagine , tho ' not so much as I ought . I am
pleas'd ...
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Thank you for your letter , which has all thofe genuine marks of a good mind by
which have ever diftinguifh'd yours , and for which I have fo long loved you . Our
friendship has been conftant ; because it was grounded on good principles , and
...
Thank you for your letter , which has all thofe genuine marks of a good mind by
which have ever diftinguifh'd yours , and for which I have fo long loved you . Our
friendship has been conftant ; because it was grounded on good principles , and
...
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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.
Bibliografische Informationen
| 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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