The Works of Alexander Pope, Esq. ...: LettersJ. and P. Knapton, 1751 |
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... less express my regards to you than ever ; and fhall make this , which is the most fincere letter I ever writ to you , the shortest and fainteft perhaps of any you have received . ' Tis enough if you re- flect , that barely to remember ...
... less express my regards to you than ever ; and fhall make this , which is the most fincere letter I ever writ to you , the shortest and fainteft perhaps of any you have received . ' Tis enough if you re- flect , that barely to remember ...
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... less . Or thus More needs not ; where acknowledg'd Merits reign , Praise is impertinent ; and Cenfure vain . This you'll take as a proof of my zeal at least , tho ' it be none of my talent in Poetry . When you have read it over , I'll ...
... less . Or thus More needs not ; where acknowledg'd Merits reign , Praise is impertinent ; and Cenfure vain . This you'll take as a proof of my zeal at least , tho ' it be none of my talent in Poetry . When you have read it over , I'll ...
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... less established fame : but from you I expect fomething of a more perfect kind , and which the oftener it is read , the more it will be admired . When you barely exceed other writers , you fall much beneath yourfelf : ' tis your ...
... less established fame : but from you I expect fomething of a more perfect kind , and which the oftener it is read , the more it will be admired . When you barely exceed other writers , you fall much beneath yourfelf : ' tis your ...
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... less account your own , and is no lefs your family , the whole world : for I take you to be one of the true friends of it , and to your power its protector . Tho ' the noise and daily bustle for the public be now over , I dare fay , a ...
... less account your own , and is no lefs your family , the whole world : for I take you to be one of the true friends of it , and to your power its protector . Tho ' the noise and daily bustle for the public be now over , I dare fay , a ...
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... less temptation to act with any hope of fuccefs . If I am good for any thing , ' tis in angulo cum libello ; and yet a good part of my time has been spent , and perhaps must be spent , far otherwise . For I will never , while I have ...
... less temptation to act with any hope of fuccefs . If I am good for any thing , ' tis in angulo cum libello ; and yet a good part of my time has been spent , and perhaps must be spent , far otherwise . For I will never , while I have ...
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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.