Mr. Pope's Literary Correspondence for Thirty Years; from 1704 to 1734. Being, a Collection of Letters, which Passed Between Him and Several Eminent Persons. Volume the FirstE. Curll, 1735 - 439 Seiten |
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... fancy , there are certain Times , when most people are in a difpofition of being inform'd ; and ' tis incredible what a vaft Good a little Truth might do , Ipo- ken in fuch seasons . A very fmall Alms will do a great kindness , to ...
... fancy , there are certain Times , when most people are in a difpofition of being inform'd ; and ' tis incredible what a vaft Good a little Truth might do , Ipo- ken in fuch seasons . A very fmall Alms will do a great kindness , to ...
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... - fon ; yet even in thofe , I cannot fancy my felf fo extremely like Alexander the Great , as you wou'd perfuade me : If I must be like him , ' tis you will make me fo , by 1 by complimenting me into a better opinion of my 14 LETTERS of.
... - fon ; yet even in thofe , I cannot fancy my felf fo extremely like Alexander the Great , as you wou'd perfuade me : If I must be like him , ' tis you will make me fo , by 1 by complimenting me into a better opinion of my 14 LETTERS of.
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... Fancy or Conceit but in the better notion of Wit , confider'd as propriety , furely Method is not only necef- fary for Perfpicuity and Harmony of parts , but gives beauty even to the minute and particular thoughts , which receive an ad ...
... Fancy or Conceit but in the better notion of Wit , confider'd as propriety , furely Method is not only necef- fary for Perfpicuity and Harmony of parts , but gives beauty even to the minute and particular thoughts , which receive an ad ...
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... fancy of making his Shepherdefs in love with two men equally , is not to be defended , whatever pains he has taken to do it . As for what you ask of the Liberty of Borrowing ; ' tis very evident the best Latin Poets have extended this ...
... fancy of making his Shepherdefs in love with two men equally , is not to be defended , whatever pains he has taken to do it . As for what you ask of the Liberty of Borrowing ; ' tis very evident the best Latin Poets have extended this ...
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... fancy , and that Homer is very incorrect . While they talk at this rate , one would think them above the com2 mon rate of mortals ; but generally they are great admifers of Ovid and Lucan ; and when they write themselves , we find out ...
... fancy , and that Homer is very incorrect . While they talk at this rate , one would think them above the com2 mon rate of mortals ; but generally they are great admifers of Ovid and Lucan ; and when they write themselves , we find out ...
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Beliebte Passagen
Seite 101 - L. walked with me three or four hours by moonlight, and we met no creature of any quality but the king...
Seite 151 - My Dear, it is only this; that you will never marry an old Man again.
Seite 29 - ... not very common to young men, that the attractions of the world have not dazzled me very much ; and I...
Seite 198 - Parnell is in an ill state of health. "Pardon me if I add a word of advice in the poetical way.
Seite 176 - ... a perspective glass. When you shut the doors of this grotto it becomes on the instant, from a luminous room, a Camera obscura, on the walls of which all the objects of the river, hills, woods and boats are forming a moving picture in their visible radiations; and when you have a mind to light it up, it affords you a very different scene.
Seite 100 - To eat Westphalia ham in a morning; ride over hedges and ditches on borrowed hacks; come home in the heat of the day with a fever, and (what is worse a hundred times) with a red mark on the forehead from an uneasy hat; all this may qualify them to make excellent wives for fox-hunters, and bear abundance of ruddycomplexioned children.
Seite 28 - Sickness is a sort of early old age; it teaches us a diffidence in our earthly state, and inspires us with the thoughts of a future, better than a thousand volumes of philosophers and divines.
Seite 196 - One or two of your own friends complained they had heard nothing from you since the Queen's death. I told them no man living loved Mr. Gay better than I, yet I had not once written to him in all his voyage. This I thought a convincing proof, how truly one may be a friend to another without telling him so every month.
Seite 103 - ... tone) that it was eleven at night. All this was no ill preparation to the life I have led since, among those old...
Seite 196 - ... politics were never your concern. If you are a Whig, as I rather hope, and as I think, your principles and mine (as brother poets) had ever a bias to the side of liberty, I know you will be an honest man, and an inoffensive one. Upon the whole, I know, you are incapable of being so much of either party as to be good for nothing.