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I can tell you of no one thing worth reading , or seeing ; the whole age feems
resolv'd to justify the Dunciad , and it may stand for a public Epitaph or
monumental Inscription like that at Thermopyla , on a whole people periff'd !
There may indeed ...
I can tell you of no one thing worth reading , or seeing ; the whole age feems
resolv'd to justify the Dunciad , and it may stand for a public Epitaph or
monumental Inscription like that at Thermopyla , on a whole people periff'd !
There may indeed ...
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The great and sudden event which has just now happened to puts the whole
world ( I mean this whole world ) into a new state : The only use I have , shall , or
with to make of it , is to observe the difparity of men from themselves in a week's
time ...
The great and sudden event which has just now happened to puts the whole
world ( I mean this whole world ) into a new state : The only use I have , shall , or
with to make of it , is to observe the difparity of men from themselves in a week's
time ...
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1 1 3 j debate of a whole day , we acquiesced at night in the best conclusion of
which human Reason seems capable in all great matters , to fall fast asleep ! And
so we ended , unless immediate Revelation ( which ever must overcome human
...
1 1 3 j debate of a whole day , we acquiesced at night in the best conclusion of
which human Reason seems capable in all great matters , to fall fast asleep ! And
so we ended , unless immediate Revelation ( which ever must overcome human
...
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She seemed to take it patiently , and , upon many exceptions which I made ,
engaged me to take the whole , and to select out of it juit as much as I judged
might stand , and return her the Copy . I did so . Immediately the picked a quarrel
with ...
She seemed to take it patiently , and , upon many exceptions which I made ,
engaged me to take the whole , and to select out of it juit as much as I judged
might stand , and return her the Copy . I did so . Immediately the picked a quarrel
with ...
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would learn to write * ; tho'I don't see of what use it could be , if their whole
business is to give their Votes t : It could only be serviceable in figning their
Protests . Yet surely this small portion of learning might be indulged to your
Lordship ...
would learn to write * ; tho'I don't see of what use it could be , if their whole
business is to give their Votes t : It could only be serviceable in figning their
Protests . Yet surely this small portion of learning might be indulged to your
Lordship ...
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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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