The Works of Alexander Pope, Esq. ...: LettersJ. and P. Knapton, 1751 |
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... things neceffary to a man who has fuch undertakings in hand as Yours . All lovers of Homer are indebted to you for taking so much pains about the fituation of his Heroes ' kingdoms ; it will not only be of great ufe with regard to his ...
... things neceffary to a man who has fuch undertakings in hand as Yours . All lovers of Homer are indebted to you for taking so much pains about the fituation of his Heroes ' kingdoms ; it will not only be of great ufe with regard to his ...
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... things facred , to treat fo fo- lemn a matter as a generous voluntary suffering , with compliments , or heroic gallantries . Such a mind as your's has no need of being spirited up into honour , or like a weak woman , praised into an opi ...
... things facred , to treat fo fo- lemn a matter as a generous voluntary suffering , with compliments , or heroic gallantries . Such a mind as your's has no need of being spirited up into honour , or like a weak woman , praised into an opi ...
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... thing we are left ca- pable of doing , is to endeavour to lighten each o- ther's load , and ( oppress'd as we are ) to fuccour fuch are yet more opprefs'd . If there are too many who cannot be affifted but by what we cannot give , our ...
... thing we are left ca- pable of doing , is to endeavour to lighten each o- ther's load , and ( oppress'd as we are ) to fuccour fuch are yet more opprefs'd . If there are too many who cannot be affifted but by what we cannot give , our ...
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... thing that is good , or ge- nerous : I find by a letter of your lady's ( which I have seen ) that their ease and ... things that make me enamour'd of you . I write this from Windfor - Foreft , of which I am come to take my last look . We ...
... thing that is good , or ge- nerous : I find by a letter of your lady's ( which I have seen ) that their ease and ... things that make me enamour'd of you . I write this from Windfor - Foreft , of which I am come to take my last look . We ...
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... things , as the other is for almost every thing ) and go with me where War will not reach us , nor paultry Con- ftables fummon us to veftries . The future epiftle you flatter me with , will find me still here , and I think I may be here ...
... things , as the other is for almost every thing ) and go with me where War will not reach us , nor paultry Con- ftables fummon us to veftries . The future epiftle you flatter me with , will find me still here , and I think I may be here ...
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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.