The Works of Alexander Pope, Esq: LettersJ. and P. Knapton, 1752 |
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... whole : world . I am pretty fure you and I should no more make good Inquifitors to the modern ty rants in faith , than we could have been quali- This was an opinion | mankind was purchased by taken up by the old Philo- the death of ...
... whole : world . I am pretty fure you and I should no more make good Inquifitors to the modern ty rants in faith , than we could have been quali- This was an opinion | mankind was purchased by taken up by the old Philo- the death of ...
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... whole religious bufinefs of mankind be included in refignation to our Maker , and charity to our fellow creatures , there are now fome people who give us as good an opportunity of practising the one , as them- felves have given an ...
... whole religious bufinefs of mankind be included in refignation to our Maker , and charity to our fellow creatures , there are now fome people who give us as good an opportunity of practising the one , as them- felves have given an ...
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... whole application to Homer ; when without that employment , my thoughts must turn upon what is less agreeable , the vio- lence , madness , and refentment of modern War- makers , which are likely to prove ( to fome This was written in ...
... whole application to Homer ; when without that employment , my thoughts must turn upon what is less agreeable , the vio- lence , madness , and refentment of modern War- makers , which are likely to prove ( to fome This was written in ...
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... whole family upon my hands to whom to discharge the part of a friend ; I affure you , I like them all fo well , that I will never 3 quit quit my hereditary right to them ; you have made 30 LETTERS TO AND On the publishing his Letters ...
... whole family upon my hands to whom to discharge the part of a friend ; I affure you , I like them all fo well , that I will never 3 quit quit my hereditary right to them ; you have made 30 LETTERS TO AND On the publishing his Letters ...
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... whole air of this letter ) not in the gayeft nor easiest humour , but always with fincerity , Your , & c . LETTER XIII . You may truly do June 27 , 1723 . may truly do me the juftice to think no man is more your fincere well - wisher ...
... whole air of this letter ) not in the gayeft nor easiest humour , but always with fincerity , Your , & c . LETTER XIII . You may truly do June 27 , 1723 . may truly do me the juftice to think no man is more your fincere well - wisher ...
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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.