The Works of Alexander Pope, Esq. ...: LettersJ. and P. Knapton, 1751 |
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... happy deliverance from fuch au- thors , as you ( with all your humanity ) cannot wifh alive again to converfe with . Critics will quarrel with you , if you dare to please without their leave ; and Zealots will shrug up their shoul- ders ...
... happy deliverance from fuch au- thors , as you ( with all your humanity ) cannot wifh alive again to converfe with . Critics will quarrel with you , if you dare to please without their leave ; and Zealots will shrug up their shoul- ders ...
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... happy ; we cannot be knowing , but we can be virtuous . If this be my notion of a great part of that high fcience , Divinity , you will be fo civil as to imagine I lay no mighty firefs upon the rest . Even of my darling poetry I really ...
... happy ; we cannot be knowing , but we can be virtuous . If this be my notion of a great part of that high fcience , Divinity , you will be fo civil as to imagine I lay no mighty firefs upon the rest . Even of my darling poetry I really ...
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... happy ; my parva rura are fastened to me , so that I can't exchange them , as you have , for more porta- ble means of fubfiftance ; and yet I hope to gather enough to make the Patriam fugimus fupportable to me : ' tis what I am refolved ...
... happy ; my parva rura are fastened to me , so that I can't exchange them , as you have , for more porta- ble means of fubfiftance ; and yet I hope to gather enough to make the Patriam fugimus fupportable to me : ' tis what I am refolved ...
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... happy with our mistreffes . I have filled my paper , and fo adieu . LETTER IX . Sept. 8 , 1717 . I Think your leaving England was like a good man's leaving the world , with the bleffed con- fcience of having acted well in it ; and I ...
... happy with our mistreffes . I have filled my paper , and fo adieu . LETTER IX . Sept. 8 , 1717 . I Think your leaving England was like a good man's leaving the world , with the bleffed con- fcience of having acted well in it ; and I ...
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... Happy they , who are banish'd from us ! but happier they , who can banish themselves ; or more properly banish the world from them ! Alas ! I live at Twickenham ! I take that period to be very fublime , and to in- clude more than a ...
... Happy they , who are banish'd from us ! but happier they , who can banish themselves ; or more properly banish the world from them ! Alas ! I live at Twickenham ! I take that period to be very fublime , and to in- clude more than a ...
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Adieu affure againſt almoſt amuſements anſwer becauſe beft beſt Biſhop of ROCHESTER Blount buſineſs cafe cauſe Chriftian circumftance converfation dear Sir death deferve defire Digby Duchefs Dunciad eaſy elfe eſteem fafely faid fame fatisfaction feems fend fenfe fhall fhew fhould fide fince fincere firft firſt fome fomething fometimes foon forry fpirit friendſhip ftill fuch fuffer fure give Gorboduc greateſt happineſs heartily himſelf Homer honeft honour hope houſe Iliad juft juſt Lady laft laſt leaſt lefs leſs LETTER live lofs Lord Lordſhip Mary Digby mind moft moſt muft muſt myſelf never occafion ourſelves perfon pleas'd pleaſe pleaſure POPE preferve preſent reaſon ſay ſcene ſee ſenſe ſhall ſhe ſpeak ſtate ſtill ſuch tell themſelves theſe thing thofe thoſe thought thro town tranflated Twickenham uſe verfe vifit Whig whofe wifh wiſh worfe write yourſelf
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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.