The Works of Alexander Pope, Esq. in Six Volumes Complete: LettersC. Bathurst, 1788 |
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... hear you , at our very firft meeting , doing juftice to your dead friend Mr. Dryden . I was not so happy as to know him : Virgilium tantum vidi . Had I been born early enough , I must have known and loved him : For I have been affured ...
... hear you , at our very firft meeting , doing juftice to your dead friend Mr. Dryden . I was not so happy as to know him : Virgilium tantum vidi . Had I been born early enough , I must have known and loved him : For I have been affured ...
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... hear you had thought upon fince . I find Menage , in his obfervations upon Taffo's Aminta , reckons up fourfcore paftoral Plays in Italian : and in looking over my old Italian books , I find a great many pastoral and pifcatory plays ...
... hear you had thought upon fince . I find Menage , in his obfervations upon Taffo's Aminta , reckons up fourfcore paftoral Plays in Italian : and in looking over my old Italian books , I find a great many pastoral and pifcatory plays ...
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... hear from you in the mean time . I am , with very much esteem , Your , etc .. A LETTER VI . O & . 22 , 1706 . FTER the thoughts I have already fent you on the fubject of English Verfification , you defire my opinion as to fome farther ...
... hear from you in the mean time . I am , with very much esteem , Your , etc .. A LETTER VI . O & . 22 , 1706 . FTER the thoughts I have already fent you on the fubject of English Verfification , you defire my opinion as to fome farther ...
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... hear their works : and next , that you are not so arrant a critick , as to damn them ( like the reft ) without hearing . But now I talk of those criticks , I have good news to tell you concerning my- felf , for which I expect you should ...
... hear their works : and next , that you are not so arrant a critick , as to damn them ( like the reft ) without hearing . But now I talk of those criticks , I have good news to tell you concerning my- felf , for which I expect you should ...
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... hear you have been confin'd to your chamber by an illness , which , I fear , was as troublesome a companion as I have fome- times been in the fame place ; where , if ever you found any pleasure in my company , it must furely have been ...
... hear you have been confin'd to your chamber by an illness , which , I fear , was as troublesome a companion as I have fome- times been in the fame place ; where , if ever you found any pleasure in my company , it must furely have been ...
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Seite 68 - 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 68 - ... 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 236 - Inarime is an epitome of the whole earth, containing, within the compafs of eighteen miles, a wonderful variety of hills, vales, ragged rocks, fruitful plains, and barren mountains, all thrown together in a moft romantic confufion.
Seite 243 - Tonson had just such another design of going to Cambridge, expecting there the copy of a new kind of Horace from Dr. , and if Mr.
Seite 354 - 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 184 - ... an advantage not very common to young men, that the attractions of the world have not dazzled me very much...
Seite 271 - I need not tell you how much a man of his turn entertained me ; but I must acquaint you, there is a vivacity and gaiety of disposition, almost peculiar to him, which make it impossible to part from him without that uneasiness which generally succeeds all our pleasure.
Seite 243 - 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 288 - ... agreeing not ill with the little dripping murmur, and the aquatic idea of the whole place. " It wants nothing to complete it but a good statue, with an inscription...
Seite 218 - But after all I have said of this great man, there is no rupture between us. We are each of us so civil and obliging, that neither thinks he is obliged : and I, for my part, treat with him, as we do with the Grand Monarch ; who has too many great qualities...