The Works of Alexander Pope, Esq. ...: LettersJ. and P. Knapton, 1751 |
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... thro ' my Lord Harcourt's and Dr. Clarke's means , I fhall be more converfant with the pleasures and company of * The Tranflation of Homer's Iliad . P. + The notes on the Iliad were his own : Those on the Odyssey were Dr. Broome's ...
... thro ' my Lord Harcourt's and Dr. Clarke's means , I fhall be more converfant with the pleasures and company of * The Tranflation of Homer's Iliad . P. + The notes on the Iliad were his own : Those on the Odyssey were Dr. Broome's ...
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... thro ' the difference of the maps as to the places they treat of , which makes one think one author contradicts another . You are going to fet us right ; and ' tis an advantage every body will gladly fee you engross the glory of . You ...
... thro ' the difference of the maps as to the places they treat of , which makes one think one author contradicts another . You are going to fet us right ; and ' tis an advantage every body will gladly fee you engross the glory of . You ...
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... thro ' the cavern day and night . From the river Thames , you fee thro ' my arch up a walk of the wilderness , to a kind of open Temple , wholly compos'd of fhells in the ruftic manner ; and from that diftance under the temple you look ...
... thro ' the cavern day and night . From the river Thames , you fee thro ' my arch up a walk of the wilderness , to a kind of open Temple , wholly compos'd of fhells in the ruftic manner ; and from that diftance under the temple you look ...
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... thro ' the reft of this paper , it fhould be fpotted and diverfified with conceits all over ; you fhould be put out of breath with laughter at each fentence , and pause at each period , to look back over how much wit you have pass'd ...
... thro ' the reft of this paper , it fhould be fpotted and diverfified with conceits all over ; you fhould be put out of breath with laughter at each fentence , and pause at each period , to look back over how much wit you have pass'd ...
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... thro ' that enchanted foreft , is not to be expreft : I look upon myself as the magician appropriated to the place , without whom no mortal can penetrate into the receffes of thofe facred fhades I could pass whole days , in only ...
... thro ' that enchanted foreft , is not to be expreft : I look upon myself as the magician appropriated to the place , without whom no mortal can penetrate into the receffes of thofe facred fhades I could pass whole days , in only ...
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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.