The Works of Alexander Pope: LettersJ. and P. Knapton, 1751 |
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... remember much as feparate spirits do us , at tender intervals , neither interrupting their own employments , nor altogether careless of ours , but in general constantly wishing us well , and hope- ing to have us one day in their company ...
... remember much as feparate spirits do us , at tender intervals , neither interrupting their own employments , nor altogether careless of ours , but in general constantly wishing us well , and hope- ing to have us one day in their company ...
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... remember any perfon when one's mind is taken up with a fenfible forrow , is a great degree of friendship . I can fay no more but that I love you , and all that are yours ; and that I wish it may be very long before any of yours fhall ...
... remember any perfon when one's mind is taken up with a fenfible forrow , is a great degree of friendship . I can fay no more but that I love you , and all that are yours ; and that I wish it may be very long before any of yours fhall ...
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... remember to have read , that any of thofe venerable and holy perfonages took with them a lady , and begat fons and daughters . You must modeftly be content to be accounted a patriarch . But were you a little younger , I fhould rather ...
... remember to have read , that any of thofe venerable and holy perfonages took with them a lady , and begat fons and daughters . You must modeftly be content to be accounted a patriarch . But were you a little younger , I fhould rather ...
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... remember , not on- ly their green - gowns , but the inftructions they gave me how to flide down and trip up the steepest flopes of my mount . Pray think of me fometimes , as I fhall often of you ; and know me for what I am , that is ...
... remember , not on- ly their green - gowns , but the inftructions they gave me how to flide down and trip up the steepest flopes of my mount . Pray think of me fometimes , as I fhall often of you ; and know me for what I am , that is ...
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... remember I promis'd to write to you , as foon as I fhould hear you were got home . You muft look on this as the firft day I've been myself , and pass over the mad interval un - imputed to me . How punctual a correfpondent I fhall hence ...
... remember I promis'd to write to you , as foon as I fhould hear you were got home . You muft look on this as the firft day I've been myself , and pass over the mad interval un - imputed to me . How punctual a correfpondent I fhall hence ...
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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.