The Works of Alexander Pope, Esq: LettersJ. and P. Knapton, 1752 |
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... she is in the list of my Memento , Domine , famulorum famularum- que's , & c . My poor mother is far from well , declining ; and I am watching over her , as we watch an expiring taper , that even when it looks brightest , waftes fastest ...
... she is in the list of my Memento , Domine , famulorum famularum- que's , & c . My poor mother is far from well , declining ; and I am watching over her , as we watch an expiring taper , that even when it looks brightest , waftes fastest ...
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... she is a mother . I will not however fuppofe those thoughts get the better of their devotions , but rather excite them and affift the warmth of them ; while their prayer may be , that they may raise up and breed as irreproachable a ...
... she is a mother . I will not however fuppofe those thoughts get the better of their devotions , but rather excite them and affift the warmth of them ; while their prayer may be , that they may raise up and breed as irreproachable a ...
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... she will do me the honour ( at this public house on the road ) to drink her own cyder . The moment I am writing this , I am fur- prized with the account of the death of a friend of mine ; which makes all I have here been talk- ing of ...
... she will do me the honour ( at this public house on the road ) to drink her own cyder . The moment I am writing this , I am fur- prized with the account of the death of a friend of mine ; which makes all I have here been talk- ing of ...
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... she needed only to follow his hints , to be in eternal business and amusement of mind , and even as active as he could defire . But indeed I fear she would out - walk him ; for ( as Dean Swift obferv'd to me the very first time I saw ...
... she needed only to follow his hints , to be in eternal business and amusement of mind , and even as active as he could defire . But indeed I fear she would out - walk him ; for ( as Dean Swift obferv'd to me the very first time I saw ...
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... she will do herself before this letter reaches you : so I wish her a good journey , and I hope one day to try if the lives as well as you do : tho ' I much question if the can live as quietly : I fu- spect the Bells will be ringing at ...
... she will do herself before this letter reaches you : so I wish her a good journey , and I hope one day to try if the lives as well as you do : tho ' I much question if the can live as quietly : I fu- spect the Bells will be ringing at ...
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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.