The Works of Alexander Pope, Esq. ...: LettersJ. and P. Knapton, 1751 |
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... give at length , both as it is fomething curious , and as it may serve for an apology for " our felves . A 2 To To HENRY CROMWELL , Efq . A June 27 , life . Of fickness and dying young III, From Sir William Trumbull On the Rape of the Lock.
... give at length , both as it is fomething curious , and as it may serve for an apology for " our felves . A 2 To To HENRY CROMWELL , Efq . A June 27 , life . Of fickness and dying young III, From Sir William Trumbull On the Rape of the Lock.
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... give him none , he went to E. T. and writ a poftfcript in her long romantick letter , to di- rect my answer to his house ; but they not expect- ing an answer , fent a young man to me , whose name , it feems , is Pattifon . I told him I ...
... give him none , he went to E. T. and writ a poftfcript in her long romantick letter , to di- rect my answer to his house ; but they not expect- ing an answer , fent a young man to me , whose name , it feems , is Pattifon . I told him I ...
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... give me an example of your wit in the first part of your let- ter , and a definition of it in the laft ; to make writing well ( that is , like you ) more difficult to me than ever it was before . Thus the more great and just your ...
... give me an example of your wit in the first part of your let- ter , and a definition of it in the laft ; to make writing well ( that is , like you ) more difficult to me than ever it was before . Thus the more great and just your ...
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... takes of the praise he gives , when it is fo juftly given . As to my enquiry after your intrigues with the Mufes , you may allow me to make it , fince no old B 4 man man can give fo young , so great , and FROM MR . WYCHERLEY . 7.
... takes of the praise he gives , when it is fo juftly given . As to my enquiry after your intrigues with the Mufes , you may allow me to make it , fince no old B 4 man man can give fo young , so great , and FROM MR . WYCHERLEY . 7.
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... give me leave at once to wave all your compliments , and to collect only this in general from them , that your defign is to encourage me . But I feparate from all the reft that paragraph or two , in which you make me fo warm an offer of ...
... give me leave at once to wave all your compliments , and to collect only this in general from them , that your defign is to encourage me . But I feparate from all the reft that paragraph or two , in which you make me fo warm an offer of ...
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Seite 70 - ... shade. In winter fire. Blest, who can unconcern'dly find Hours, days, and years slide soft away. In health of body, peace of mind, Quiet by day. Sound sleep by night; study and ease, Together mixt; sweet recreation: And innocence, which most does please With meditation.
Seite 69 - HAPPY the man whose wish and care A few paternal acres bound, Content to breathe his native air, In his own ground ; Whose herds with milk, whose fields with bread, Whose flocks supply him with attire ; Whose trees in Summer yield him shade, In Winter fire.
Seite 190 - The world recedes; it disappears! Heaven opens on my eyes; my ears With sounds seraphic ring! Lend, lend your wings! I mount! I fly! O Grave! where is thy victory? O Death! where is thy sting?
Seite 245 - Pray, Mr. Lintot, (said I,) now you talk of Translators, what is your method of managing them? "Sir, (replied he,) those are the saddest pack of rogues in the world : in a hungry fit they'll swear they understand all the languages in the universe : I have known one of them take down a Greek book upon my counter, and cry, Ah, this is Hebrew, I must read it from the latter end.
Seite 185 - I confess, I cannot apprehend where lies the trifling in all this : it is the most natural and obvious reflection imaginable to a dying man : and, if we...
Seite 244 - Now damn them ! what if they should put it into the newspaper, how you and I went together to Oxford ? what would I care? If I should go down into Sussex, they would say I was gone to the Speaker. But what of that ? If my son were but big enough to go on with the business, by G — d I would keep as good company as old Jacob.
Seite 184 - I never had any esteem for, are likely to enjoy this world after me. When I reflect what an...
Seite 182 - ... putrify, and are good for nothing, and running violently on, do but the more mischief in their passage to others, and are swallowed up and lost the sooner themselves.
Seite 236 - Inarime is an epitome of the whole earth, containing within the compass of eighteen miles, a wonderful variety of hills, vales, ragged rocks, fruitful plains, and barren mountains, all thrown together in a most romantic confusion.
Seite 132 - L. walked with me three or four hours by moonlight, and we met no creature of any quality but the King, who gave audience to the vicechamberlain all alone under the garden wall.