The Works of Alexander Pope, Band 6Henry Lintot, 1737 |
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... just your example and definition of wit are , the lefs I am capable to follow them . Then the best way of showing my judgement , af- ter having seen how you write , is to leave off writing ; and the best way to fhew my friendship to you ...
... just your example and definition of wit are , the lefs I am capable to follow them . Then the best way of showing my judgement , af- ter having seen how you write , is to leave off writing ; and the best way to fhew my friendship to you ...
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... just as you think fit . I shall be very much pleas'd to see you again in Town , and to hear from you in the mean time . I am with very much esteem , Your , & c . LETTER A LETTER VI . Oct. 22 , 1706 . FTER 52 LETTERS to and from.
... just as you think fit . I shall be very much pleas'd to see you again in Town , and to hear from you in the mean time . I am with very much esteem , Your , & c . LETTER A LETTER VI . Oct. 22 , 1706 . FTER 52 LETTERS to and from.
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... just as much indulgence ( and no more ) to my faults when I am abfent , as he does feverity to ' em when I am prefent . To be very frank with you , Sir , I must own , that where I receiv'd fo much civility at first , I could hardly have ...
... just as much indulgence ( and no more ) to my faults when I am abfent , as he does feverity to ' em when I am prefent . To be very frank with you , Sir , I must own , that where I receiv'd fo much civility at first , I could hardly have ...
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... 1710 . I Had not fo long omitted to express my acknow- ledgments to you for fo much good - nature and friendship as you lately fhow'd me ; but that I am G bus but just return'd to my own hermitage , from Mr. Mr. CROMWELL . 81.
... 1710 . I Had not fo long omitted to express my acknow- ledgments to you for fo much good - nature and friendship as you lately fhow'd me ; but that I am G bus but just return'd to my own hermitage , from Mr. Mr. CROMWELL . 81.
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Alexander Pope. but just return'd to my own hermitage , from Mr. C's who has done me fo many favours , that I am almost inclin'd to think my friends infect one another , and that your converfation with him has made him as obliging to me ...
Alexander Pope. but just return'd to my own hermitage , from Mr. C's who has done me fo many favours , that I am almost inclin'd to think my friends infect one another , and that your converfation with him has made him as obliging to me ...
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Seite 204 - The world recedes; it disappears! Heaven opens on my eyes! my ears With sounds seraphic ring: Lend, lend your wings! I mount! I fly! O Grave! where is thy victory? O Death! where is thy sting?
Seite 47 - People seek for what they call wit, on all subjects, and in all places ; not considering that nature loves truth so well, that it hardly ever admits of flourishing : Conceit is to nature what paint is to beauty ; it is not only needless, but impairs what it would improve.
Seite 228 - Lordship may cause me to live agreeably in the town, or contentedly in the country, which is really all the difference I set between an easy fortune and a small one.
Seite 53 - It is not enough that nothing offends the Ear, but a good Poet will adapt the very Sounds, as well as Words, to the things he treats of. So that there is (if one may express it so) a Style of Sound. As in describing a gliding Stream, the Numbers shou'd run easy and flowing; in describing a rough Torrent or Deluge, sonorous and swelling, and so of the rest.
Seite 206 - I have an ambition of having it known that you are my friend, I shall be very proud of showing it by this, or any other instance. I question not but your Translation will enrich our tongue, and do honour to our country...
Seite 195 - Plutarch just now told me, that 'tis in human life as in a game at tables, where a man may wish for the highest cast, but, if his chance be otherwise, he is e'en to play it as well as he can, and to make the best of it.
Seite 73 - ... shade. In winter fire. Blest, who can unconcern'dly find Hours, days, and years slide soft away. In health of body, peace of mind, Quiet by day. Sound sleep by night; study and ease, Together mixt; sweet recreation: And innocence, which most does please With meditation.
Seite 141 - I paced on slowly, without company, or any interruption to the range of my thoughts. About a mile before I reached Oxford, all the bells...
Seite 197 - The memory of man, (as it is elegantly exprefs'd in the Book of Wifdom) pafleth away as the remembrance of a gueft that tarrieth but one day. There are reafons enough, in the fourth chapter of the fame . book, to make any young man contented with the profpect of death.
Seite 233 - Great Turk in poetry, who can never bear a brother on the throne ; and has his mutes too, a set of nodders, winkers, and whisperers, whose business is to strangle all other offsprings of wit in their birth.