The Works of Alexander Pope: LettersJ. and P. Knapton, 1751 |
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... must give me leave to add one thing , that you talk at your eafe , being wholly unconcerned in public events : For , if your friends the Whigs con- tinue , you may hope for fome favour ; if the To- ries return , you are at leaft fure of ...
... must give me leave to add one thing , that you talk at your eafe , being wholly unconcerned in public events : For , if your friends the Whigs con- tinue , you may hope for fome favour ; if the To- ries return , you are at leaft fure of ...
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... must be a little eafy in my mind before I can think of Scriblerus . 7. You are to understand that I live in the corner of a vaft unfurnished houfe ; my family confifts of a steward , a groom , a helper in the ftable , a footman , and an ...
... must be a little eafy in my mind before I can think of Scriblerus . 7. You are to understand that I live in the corner of a vaft unfurnished houfe ; my family confifts of a steward , a groom , a helper in the ftable , a footman , and an ...
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... must live , and I beg you will not be the man to manage the controverfy a- gainst me . The Church of Rome I judge ( from many modern symptoms , as well as ancient prophe- cies ) to be in a declining condition ; that of Eng- land will in ...
... must live , and I beg you will not be the man to manage the controverfy a- gainst me . The Church of Rome I judge ( from many modern symptoms , as well as ancient prophe- cies ) to be in a declining condition ; that of Eng- land will in ...
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... must needs confound any man of little fpirit , and low birth , who hath no other endowment than that fort of ... must be those which have Man for their object , as a reasonable , a focial , and a civil being . And these are all included ...
... must needs confound any man of little fpirit , and low birth , who hath no other endowment than that fort of ... must be those which have Man for their object , as a reasonable , a focial , and a civil being . And these are all included ...
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... must be confeffed , that of late fome people in this coun- try are grown weary of quarrelling , becaufe inte reft , the great motive of quarrelling , is at an end ; for , it is hardly worth contending who fhall be an Excifeman , a ...
... must be confeffed , that of late fome people in this coun- try are grown weary of quarrelling , becaufe inte reft , the great motive of quarrelling , is at an end ; for , it is hardly worth contending who fhall be an Excifeman , a ...
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Seite 65 - I will further tell you, that all my endeavours, from a boy, to distinguish myself, were only for want of a great title and fortune, that I might be used like a Lord by those who have an opinion of my parts — whether right or wrong, it is no great matter, and so the reputation of wit or great learning does the office of a blue ribbon, or of a coach and six horses.
Seite 55 - ... beans and bacon, and a barn-door fowl. Now his lordship is run after his cart, I have a moment left to myself to tell you, that I overheard him yesterday agree with a painter for 200£ to paint his country-hall with trophies of rakes, spades, prongs, &c. and other ornaments, merely to countenance his calling this place a farm...
Seite 69 - I used to be going to bed, surfeited with pleasure, or jaded with business : my head often full of schemes, and my heart as often full of anxiety. Is it a misfortune, think you, that I rise at this hour refreshed, serene, and calm ? that the past...
Seite 37 - ... he is not without fault : there is a passage in Bede highly commending the piety and learning of the Irish in that age, where, after abundance of praises, he overthrows them all, by lamenting that, alas ! they kept Easter at a wrong time of the year.
Seite 29 - I find no considerable man very angry at the book; some indeed think it rather too bold, and too general a satire; but none that I hear of accuse it of particular reflections...
Seite 65 - Graevius and Gronovius, which make thirty-one volumes in folio (and were given me by my Lord Bolingbroke), more than all my books besides ; because whoever comes into my closet, casts his eyes immediately upon them, and will not vouchsafe to look upon Plato or Xenophon.
Seite 65 - I remember when I was a little boy I felt a great fish at the end of my line which I drew up almost on the ground, but it dropped in, and the disappointment vexes me to this very day, and I believe it was the type of all my future disappointments.
Seite 109 - ... out of this kingdom. Two or three of us had a fancy, three years ago, to write a weekly paper, and call it an Intelligencer.
Seite 19 - I ever abominated that scheme of politics (now about thirty years old) of setting up a moneyed interest in opposition to the landed. For I conceived there could not be a truer maxim in our government than this, that the possessors of the soil are the best judges of what is for the advantage of the kingdom. If others had thought the same way, funds of credit and South Sea projects would neither have been felt nor heard of.
Seite 9 - Give me leave then to put you in mind (although you cannot easily forget it) that about ten weeks before the Queen's death, I left the town, upon occasion of that incurable breach among the great men at court, and went down to Berkshire, where you may remember that you gave me the favour of a visit.