The Works of Alexander Pope, Esq: In Nine Volumes Complete, with His Last Corrections, Additions, and Improvements, as They Were Delivered to the Editor a Little Before His Death, Together with the Commentary and Notes of Mr. Warburton, Band 8A. Millar, J. and R. Tonson, C. Bathurst, R. Baldwin, W. Johnston, J. Richardson, B. Law, S. Crowder, T. Longman, T. Field, and T. Caslon, 1760 |
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... hear the first report , and therefore are obliged to listen to the second ; which , for fecurity fake , I do not always believe neither . ' Tis a great many years fince I fell in love with the character of Pomponius Atticus : I long'd ...
... hear the first report , and therefore are obliged to listen to the second ; which , for fecurity fake , I do not always believe neither . ' Tis a great many years fince I fell in love with the character of Pomponius Atticus : I long'd ...
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... hear you were got home . You must look on this as the first day I've been myself , and pass over the mad interval un - imputed to me . How punctual a correfpondent I shall hence - forward be able or not able to be , God knows : but He ...
... hear you were got home . You must look on this as the first day I've been myself , and pass over the mad interval un - imputed to me . How punctual a correfpondent I shall hence - forward be able or not able to be , God knows : but He ...
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... hear- tily thank you for the relief it gave me . Iwas fick of the thoughts of my not having in all this time given you any testimony of the affection I Owe you , and which I as conftantly indeed feel as I think of you . This indeed was ...
... hear- tily thank you for the relief it gave me . Iwas fick of the thoughts of my not having in all this time given you any testimony of the affection I Owe you , and which I as conftantly indeed feel as I think of you . This indeed was ...
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... of fhowers is poured upon every tree and field about us ; the gardens unfold variety of colours to the eye every morning ; the hedges breath is beyond all perfume , and the fong fong of birds we hear as well as you . 52 LETTERS TO AND.
... of fhowers is poured upon every tree and field about us ; the gardens unfold variety of colours to the eye every morning ; the hedges breath is beyond all perfume , and the fong fong of birds we hear as well as you . 52 LETTERS TO AND.
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... hear as well as you . But tho ' I hear and fee all this , yet I think they would delight me more if you was here . I found the want of these at Twickenham while I was there with you , by which I guess what an increase of charms it must ...
... hear as well as you . But tho ' I hear and fee all this , yet I think they would delight me more if you was here . I found the want of these at Twickenham while I was there with you , by which I guess what an increase of charms it must ...
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Adieu affure againſt almoſt amuſements anſwer becauſe beft beſt Biſhop of ROCHESTER Blount buſineſs caſe cauſe Chriftians circumftance converfation dear Sir defire DIGBY diſtance Duchefs Dunciad eafy elfe elſe eſteem fafely faid fame fatire fatisfaction feems feen fenfe ferve fhall fhew fide fince fincere firſt fome fomething foon fpirits friendſhip ftate ftill fuch fuffer fure give Gorboduc greateſt happineſs hear himſelf honeft hope houſe Iliad itſelf juſt Lady laft laſt leaft leaſt lefs leſs LETTER live lofs Lord Lord Bathurst Lord Burlington Lordſhip Mary Digby mind moft moſt muft muſt myſelf never occafion ourſelves Papiſt paſt perfon pleas'd pleaſe pleaſure preferve preſent reaſon ſay ſcene ſee ſeems ſenſe ſhall ſhe ſhould ſmall ſome ſtate ſtill ſuch taſte tell theſe thing thofe thoſe thought thro town Twickenham uſe whoſe wiſh worſe writ write yourſelf
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Seite 12 - Jan. 21, 1715-16. I KNOW of nothing that will be so interesting to you at present, as some circumstances of the last act of that eminent comic poet, and our friend, Wycherley. He had often told me, as I doubt not he did all his acquaintance, that he would marry as soon as his life was despaired of : Accordingly a few days before his death he underwent the ceremony ; and joined together those two sacraments which, wise men say, should be the last we receive...
Seite 37 - ... radiations; and when you have a mind to light it up, it affords you a very different scene. It is finished with...
Seite 148 - DEAR MR. GAY, — Welcome to your native soil, welcome to your friends, thrice welcome to me, whether returned in glory, blest with court interest, the love and familiarity of the great, and filled with agreeable hopes ; or melancholy with dejection, contemplative of the changes of fortune, and doubtful for the future. Whether returned a triumphant Whig or a...
Seite 121 - I desire you to make) you think as I do, that it is written in the very spirit of the ancients, it deserves your care, and is capable of being improved, with little trouble, into a perfect model and standard of tragic poetry...
Seite 12 - I saw our friend twice after this was done, less peevish in his sickness than he used to be in his health; neither much afraid of dying, nor (which in him had been more likely) much ashamed of marrying.
Seite 13 - My dear, it is only this, that you will never marry an old man again.
Seite 103 - 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 107 - Tickell chose to inscribe his verses, should be dead also before they were published. Had I been in the editor's place I should have been a little apprehensive for myself, under a thought that every one who had any hand in that work was to die before the publication of it.
Seite 131 - ... utterly forgetful of that world from which we are gone, and ripening for that to which we are to go. If you retain any memory of the past...
Seite 150 - Parnell and I have been inseparable ever since you went. We are now at the Bath, where (if you are not, as I heartily hope, better engaged) your coming would be the greatest pleasure to us in the world. Talk not of expenses: Homer shall support his children. I beg a line from you, directed to the Post-house in Bath. Poor Parnell is in an ill state of health.