Mr. Pope's Literary Correspondence. Volume the Fifth. With Letters of Lord Bolingbroke. Lord Lansdowne. ...E. Curll, 1737 - 86 Seiten |
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... use the Freedoms of Friendship with Men much my Supe- riors . To have pleafed great Men , ac- cording to Horace , is a Praife ; but not to have flattered them , and yet not to have displeased , is a greater . I have carefully avoided ...
... use the Freedoms of Friendship with Men much my Supe- riors . To have pleafed great Men , ac- cording to Horace , is a Praife ; but not to have flattered them , and yet not to have displeased , is a greater . I have carefully avoided ...
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Alexander Pope. ftance of her Prostitution ) that is , for their own use only ; never reflecting , that he , like those of whofe Sex fhe is painted , is capable of fatisfying more than One ; nay , that like a pretty Wo- man , it is ...
Alexander Pope. ftance of her Prostitution ) that is , for their own use only ; never reflecting , that he , like those of whofe Sex fhe is painted , is capable of fatisfying more than One ; nay , that like a pretty Wo- man , it is ...
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... use that phrafe on such occafions ) in miffing you at the Deanery , where I lay folitary two nights . Indeed I truly partake in any degree of concern that affects you , and I wish every thing may fuc- ceed as you defire in your own ...
... use that phrafe on such occafions ) in miffing you at the Deanery , where I lay folitary two nights . Indeed I truly partake in any degree of concern that affects you , and I wish every thing may fuc- ceed as you defire in your own ...
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... use them to my fatisfaction , while my mind is taken up in a more melancholy * man- ner ; and how long , or how little a while it may be fo taken up God only knows , and to his will I implicitly refign myself in every thing . I am , & c ...
... use them to my fatisfaction , while my mind is taken up in a more melancholy * man- ner ; and how long , or how little a while it may be fo taken up God only knows , and to his will I implicitly refign myself in every thing . I am , & c ...
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... use a comparison drawn from painting , he places that in the greatest light which cannot be too vifible , and finks , in the obfcurity of the shade , what does not require a full view : fo that it may be faid , that Homer is the painter ...
... use a comparison drawn from painting , he places that in the greatest light which cannot be too vifible , and finks , in the obfcurity of the shade , what does not require a full view : fo that it may be faid , that Homer is the painter ...
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Seite 193 - It was but this very morning that he had obtained her parents' consent, and it was but till the next week that they were to wait to be happy. Perhaps...
Seite 92 - Lord Chancellor HARCOURT, at the Church of Stanton-Harcourt in Oxfordshire, 1720. To this sad shrine, whoe'er thou art, draw near, Here lies the friend most lov'd, the son most dear: Who ne'er knew joy, but friendship might divide, Or gave his father grief but when he dy'd.
Seite 192 - 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 efcaped : The only thing that is proof againft it is the laurel^ which, however, I take to be no great...
Seite 223 - Europe ; and an admiral on account of your skill in maritime affairs : whereas, according to the usual method of court proceedings, I should have been at the head of the army, and you of the church, or rather a curate under the dean of St. Patrick's.
Seite 245 - And this for the very reason which possibly might hinder your 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 81 - I have a due sense of the excellence of the British constitution. In a word, the things I have always wished to see, are, not a Roman Catholic, or a French Catholic, or a Spanish Catholic, but a true Catholic; and not a King of Whigs, or a King of Tories, but a King of England ; which God of his mercy grant his present Majesty may be, and all future majesties.
Seite 121 - ... 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 162 - Of softest manners, unaffected mind, Lover of peace, and friend of human kind : Go, live ! for heaven's eternal year is thine, Go, and exalt thy mortal to divine.
Seite 194 - ... of life were found in either. Attended by their melancholy companions, they were conveyed to the town, and the next day were interred in Stanton-Harcourt church-yard.
Seite 67 - Ireland, as objects look larger through a medium of Fogs : and yet I am infinitely pleased with that too. I am much the happier for finding (a better thing than our Wits) our Judgments jump, in the notion that all Scribblers should be past by in silence.