LettersJ. and P. Knapton, H. Lintot, J. and R. Tonson, and S. Draper, 1751 |
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... shall be my fortune to fall into , I fhall be equally incapable of forgetting you in any of them . The tafk I undertook , though of weight enough in itself , has had a voluntary increase by the inlarging my defign of the Notes ; and the ...
... shall be my fortune to fall into , I fhall be equally incapable of forgetting you in any of them . The tafk I undertook , though of weight enough in itself , has had a voluntary increase by the inlarging my defign of the Notes ; and the ...
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... shall go to fupper . And as for the Greeks , what can equal their fuperftition in facrificing an in- nocent lady ? Tantum Relligio potuit , & c . I have a good opinion of my politics , fince they agree with a man who always thinks fo ...
... shall go to fupper . And as for the Greeks , what can equal their fuperftition in facrificing an in- nocent lady ? Tantum Relligio potuit , & c . I have a good opinion of my politics , fince they agree with a man who always thinks fo ...
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... shall at all times be heartily welcome to me . upon The many alarms we have from your parts , have no effect upon the genius that reigns in our country , which is happily turn'd to preserve peace and quiet , among us . What a difmal ...
... shall at all times be heartily welcome to me . upon The many alarms we have from your parts , have no effect upon the genius that reigns in our country , which is happily turn'd to preserve peace and quiet , among us . What a difmal ...
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... shall I do fo for you , fince I am in a most particular man- ner , and with all fincerity , Your , & c . I LETTER IV . Jan. 21 , 1715-16 . Know of nothing that will be fo interesting to you at prefent , as fome circumstances of the last ...
... shall I do fo for you , fince I am in a most particular man- ner , and with all fincerity , Your , & c . I LETTER IV . Jan. 21 , 1715-16 . Know of nothing that will be fo interesting to you at prefent , as fome circumstances of the last ...
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... shall range the walks above , and perhaps gaze on this world at as vaft a di- ftance as we now do on thofe worlds . The pleasures we are to enjoy in that converfation muft undoubtedly be of a nobler kind , and ( not unlikely ) may ...
... shall range the walks above , and perhaps gaze on this world at as vaft a di- ftance as we now do on thofe worlds . The pleasures we are to enjoy in that converfation muft undoubtedly be of a nobler kind , and ( not unlikely ) may ...
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Seite 270 - 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 140 - Homer had upon me, to write fifty verses a day, besides learned notes, all which are at a conclusion for this year. Rejoice with me, O my friend ! that my labour is over ; come and make merry with me in much feasting. We will feed among the lilies (by the lilies I mean the ladies). Are not the...
Seite 116 - I knew you, and shall not fail to do it when I am not allowed to tell you so, as the case will soon be.
Seite 222 - 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 144 - 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 138 - DEAR MR. GAY, — Welcome to your native soil, welcome to your friends, thrice welcome to me, whether returned in glory, blest with court interest, the love and familiarity of the great, and filled with agreeable hopes ; or melancholy with dejection, contemplative of the changes of fortune, and doubtful for the future. Whether returned a triumphant Whig or a...
Seite 140 - Pardon me if I add a word of advice in the poetical way. Write something on the King, or Prince, or Princess.
Seite 146 - ... signs 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 214 - It is so with me, for you are in one thing an evangelical man, that you know not where to lay your head ; and, I think, you have no house.
Seite 122 - Those whose date is the shortest, live long enough to laugh at one half of it : the boy despises the infant, the man the boy, the philosopher both, and the Christian all. You may now begin to think your manhood was too much a puerility ; and you will never suffer your age to be but a second infancy.