The Works of Alexander Pope, Esq: LettersJ. and P. Knapton, 1752 |
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... shall be my fortune to fall into , I shal be equally incapable of forgetting you in any of them . The tafk I undertook , though of weight enough in itself , has had a voluntary increase by the inlarging my defign of the Notes ; and the ...
... shall be my fortune to fall into , I shal be equally incapable of forgetting you in any of them . The tafk I undertook , though of weight enough in itself , has had a voluntary increase by the inlarging my defign of the Notes ; and the ...
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... shall certainly let theirs ; that is to fay , that want of power itself in us may not be a furer prevention of harm , than want of will in them . I am fure , if all Whigs and all Tories had the spirit of one Ro- man Catholic that I know ...
... shall certainly let theirs ; that is to fay , that want of power itself in us may not be a furer prevention of harm , than want of will in them . I am fure , if all Whigs and all Tories had the spirit of one Ro- man Catholic that I know ...
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... shall go to fupper . And as for the Greeks , what can equal their fuperftition in facrificing an in- nocent lady ? Tantum Relligio potuit , & c . I have a good opinion of my politics , fince they agree with a man who always thinks fo ...
... shall go to fupper . And as for the Greeks , what can equal their fuperftition in facrificing an in- nocent lady ? Tantum Relligio potuit , & c . I have a good opinion of my politics , fince they agree with a man who always thinks fo ...
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... shall I do fo for you , fince I am in a moft particular man- ner , and with all fincerity , Your , & c . LETTER IV . Jan. 21 , 1715-16 . I Know of nothing that will be fo interesting to you at prefent , as fome circumftances of the last ...
... shall I do fo for you , fince I am in a moft particular man- ner , and with all fincerity , Your , & c . LETTER IV . Jan. 21 , 1715-16 . I Know of nothing that will be fo interesting to you at prefent , as fome circumftances of the last ...
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... shall never be ashamed of each other . I know I wish my Country well , and if it undoes me , it fhall not make me with it otherwise . LETTER VII . From Mr. BLOUNT . March 24 , 1715-16 . * YOUR letters give me a gleam of fatif- faction ...
... shall never be ashamed of each other . I know I wish my Country well , and if it undoes me , it fhall not make me with it otherwise . LETTER VII . From Mr. BLOUNT . March 24 , 1715-16 . * YOUR letters give me a gleam of fatif- faction ...
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Seite 6 - My dear, it is only this, that you will never marry an old man again.
Seite 29 - ... radiations ; and when you have a mind to light it up, it affords you a very different scene. It is...
Seite 119 - I know not but I may call upon you at my hearing, to say somewhat about my way of spending my time at the Deanery, which did not seem calculated towards managing plots and conspiracies.
Seite 145 - I am quite out of the world, and there is fcarce any thing that can reach me except the noife of thunder, which undoubtedly you have heard too. We have read in old authors of high towers levelled by it to the ground, while the humble valleys have...
Seite 142 - 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.
Seite 272 - Hear this, and tremble ! you who 'scape the laws. Yes, while I live, no rich or noble knave Shall walk the world, in credit, to his grave.
Seite 6 - Catechism, as a kind of hint of the order of time in which they are to be taken.
Seite 125 - Remember it was at such a time, that the greatest lights of antiquity dazzled and blazed the most, in their retreat, in their exile, or in their death. But why do I talk of dazzling or blazing ? it was then that they did good, that they gave light, and that they became guides to mankind.
Seite 225 - And this for the very reason, which possibly might hinder you coming, that my poor mother is dead. I thank God, her death was as easy as her life was innocent ; and as it cost her not a groan, or even a sigh, there is yet upon her countenance such an expression of tranquillity, nay, almost of pleasure, that it is even amiable to behold it.
Seite 138 - I am, when every day the performances of others appear more beautiful and excellent, and my own more despicable.