The Works of Alexander Pope, Esq. ...: LettersJ. and P. Knapton, 1751 |
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... his own : Those on the Odyssey were Dr. Broome's . -But they speak their re- fpective Authors . VOL . VIII . B the the place , than with the books and manuscripts of LETTERS to and from EDWARD BLOUNT Esq LETTER to 1725 P.
... his own : Those on the Odyssey were Dr. Broome's . -But they speak their re- fpective Authors . VOL . VIII . B the the place , than with the books and manuscripts of LETTERS to and from EDWARD BLOUNT Esq LETTER to 1725 P.
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... speaking , but to writing too : the more time we give ourselves to think over one's own or a friend's unhappiness , the more unable we grow to express the grief that proceeds from it . It is as na- tural to delay a letter , at such a ...
... speaking , but to writing too : the more time we give ourselves to think over one's own or a friend's unhappiness , the more unable we grow to express the grief that proceeds from it . It is as na- tural to delay a letter , at such a ...
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... 'd ; and there ( as Milton has it ) may we , like the deities , On flow'rs repos'd , and with fresh garlands crown'd , Quaff immortality and joy . D 4 When When I speak of garlands , I fhould not forget FROM MR . DIGBY . 39.
... 'd ; and there ( as Milton has it ) may we , like the deities , On flow'rs repos'd , and with fresh garlands crown'd , Quaff immortality and joy . D 4 When When I speak of garlands , I fhould not forget FROM MR . DIGBY . 39.
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Alexander Pope. When I speak of garlands , I fhould not forget the green veftments and scarfs which your fifters promis'd to make for this purpose : I expect you too in green , with a hunting - horn by your fide and a green hat , the ...
Alexander Pope. When I speak of garlands , I fhould not forget the green veftments and scarfs which your fifters promis'd to make for this purpose : I expect you too in green , with a hunting - horn by your fide and a green hat , the ...
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... speak gently ; and therefore , as Mr. Dry- den fays fomewhere , Peace be to its Manes ! Let me add one reflection , to make you easy in your ill luck . Had you got all that you have loft beyond what you ventur'd , confider that your fu ...
... speak gently ; and therefore , as Mr. Dry- den fays fomewhere , Peace be to its Manes ! Let me add one reflection , to make you easy in your ill luck . Had you got all that you have loft beyond what you ventur'd , confider that your fu ...
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Seite 8 - I know of nothing that will be so interesting to you, at present, as some circumstances of the last act of that eminent comic poet, and our friend, Wycherley. He had often told me, as, I doubt not, he did all his acquaintance, that he would marry, as soon as his life was despaired of: accordingly, a few days before his death, he underwent the ceremony, and joined together those two sacraments, which, wise men say, should be the last we receive...
Seite 26 - ... radiations; and when you have a mind to light it up, it affords you a very different scene. It is finished with...
Seite 109 - 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 93 - 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 111 - Parnell is in an ill state of health. "Pardon me if I add a word of advice in the poetical way.
Seite 165 - It is so with me ; for you are in one thing an evangelical man, that " you know not where to lay your head ;
Seite 164 - Scenes you have passed, have not been able to attain that one quality peculiar to a great man, of forgetting every thing but injuries. Of this I am a living witness against you ; for being the most insignificant of all your old humble servants, you were so cruel as never to...
Seite 97 - 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 115 - ... 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 110 - 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.