The Works of Alexander Pope: LettersJ. and P. Knapton, 1751 |
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... tell them you admire at their info- lence in disturbing your meditations , or even en- quiring of your retreat : but this I will not pofi- tively affert , because I never received any fuch in- fulting Epiftle from you . My Lord Oxford ...
... tell them you admire at their info- lence in disturbing your meditations , or even en- quiring of your retreat : but this I will not pofi- tively affert , because I never received any fuch in- fulting Epiftle from you . My Lord Oxford ...
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... tell you , you are like the fun , and while men imagine you to be retired or abfent , are hourly ex- erting your indulgence , and bringing things to ma- turity for their advantage . Of all the world , you are the man ( without flattery ) ...
... tell you , you are like the fun , and while men imagine you to be retired or abfent , are hourly ex- erting your indulgence , and bringing things to ma- turity for their advantage . Of all the world , you are the man ( without flattery ) ...
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... tell you all the faults I know , only in one or two places you are a little ob- fcure ; but I expected you to be fo in one or two and twenty . I have heard no foul talk of it here , for indeed it is not come over ; nor do we very much ...
... tell you all the faults I know , only in one or two places you are a little ob- fcure ; but I expected you to be fo in one or two and twenty . I have heard no foul talk of it here , for indeed it is not come over ; nor do we very much ...
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... tell you than I , how often you are in our thoughts and in our cups , and how I learn to fleep lefs * and drink more , whenever you are named among us . I look upon a friend in Ireland as upon a friend in the other world , whom ...
... tell you than I , how often you are in our thoughts and in our cups , and how I learn to fleep lefs * and drink more , whenever you are named among us . I look upon a friend in Ireland as upon a friend in the other world , whom ...
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... tell you all this , but that I always loved to talk to you ; but this is not a time for any man to talk to the purpose . Truth is a kind of contraband commodity , which I would not venture to export , and therefore the only thing ...
... tell you all this , but that I always loved to talk to you ; but this is not a time for any man to talk to the purpose . Truth is a kind of contraband commodity , which I would not venture to export , and therefore the only thing ...
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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.