The Works of Alexander Pope, Esq: LettersJ. and P. Knapton, 1752 |
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... less shameful art of lof ing time . What we here call science and ftu- dy , are little better : the greater number of arts to which we apply ourselves are mere groping in the dark , and even the fearch of our in 14 LETTERS TO AND.
... less shameful art of lof ing time . What we here call science and ftu- dy , are little better : the greater number of arts to which we apply ourselves are mere groping in the dark , and even the fearch of our in 14 LETTERS TO AND.
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... less agreeable , the vio- lence , madness , and refentment of modern War- makers , which are likely to prove ( to fome This was written in the year of the affair of Prefton . P. C 4 people people at least ) more fatal , than the fame ...
... less agreeable , the vio- lence , madness , and refentment of modern War- makers , which are likely to prove ( to fome This was written in the year of the affair of Prefton . P. C 4 people people at least ) more fatal , than the fame ...
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... less established fame : but from you I expect fomething of a more perfect kind , and which the oftener it is read , the more it will be admired . When you barely exceed other writers , you fall much beneath yourself : ' tis your ...
... less established fame : but from you I expect fomething of a more perfect kind , and which the oftener it is read , the more it will be admired . When you barely exceed other writers , you fall much beneath yourself : ' tis your ...
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Alexander Pope. your care . future ; as the former has been less kind to you than the latter infallibly will be . Do not envy the world your Studies ; they will tend to the benefit of men against whom you can have no complaint , I mean ...
Alexander Pope. your care . future ; as the former has been less kind to you than the latter infallibly will be . Do not envy the world your Studies ; they will tend to the benefit of men against whom you can have no complaint , I mean ...
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... less than that , whenever I converfe with you . My thoughts are at prefent vainly , but pleasingly employ'd , on what I have loft , and can never recover . I know well I ought , for that rea- fon , to call them off to other fubjects ...
... less than that , whenever I converfe with you . My thoughts are at prefent vainly , but pleasingly employ'd , on what I have loft , and can never recover . I know well I ought , for that rea- fon , to call them off to other fubjects ...
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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.