The Works of Alexander Pope, Esq: In Four Volumes Complete. With His Last Corrections, Additions, and Improvements. Carefully Collated and Compared with Former Editions: Together with Notes from the Various Critics and CommentatorsEditor, and sold, 1778 |
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... should frighten us with his verse , not profe : for I have often known , that , when all the precepts in the world would not reclaim a finner , fome very fad example has done the bufinefs . Yet , to give this man his due , he has ...
... should frighten us with his verse , not profe : for I have often known , that , when all the precepts in the world would not reclaim a finner , fome very fad example has done the bufinefs . Yet , to give this man his due , he has ...
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... should be fruftrated , by the short stay she makes there . She went thither on the 25th with that mixture of expec- tation : tation and anxiety , with which people ufually go FROM SEVERAL PERSONS . 13 The Hon J C to Mr Pope, concerning ...
... should be fruftrated , by the short stay she makes there . She went thither on the 25th with that mixture of expec- tation : tation and anxiety , with which people ufually go FROM SEVERAL PERSONS . 13 The Hon J C to Mr Pope, concerning ...
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... should be to divert and humour , as well as comfort and pity , the diftreffed . I cannot therefore excufe fome near Allies of mine for their con- duct of late towards this Lady , which has given me a great deal of anger as well as ...
... should be to divert and humour , as well as comfort and pity , the diftreffed . I cannot therefore excufe fome near Allies of mine for their con- duct of late towards this Lady , which has given me a great deal of anger as well as ...
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... should . But these things are only whif- per'd , and I will not encroach upon Bays's province and pen whispers , fo haften to conclude Your , & c . LETTER VIII . From my Lord LANSDOWN . Oct. 21 , 1713 . I AM pleafed beyond measure with ...
... should . But these things are only whif- per'd , and I will not encroach upon Bays's province and pen whispers , fo haften to conclude Your , & c . LETTER VIII . From my Lord LANSDOWN . Oct. 21 , 1713 . I AM pleafed beyond measure with ...
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... should not only appear the beft writer in the world , but , what I much more defire to be thought , the most your fervant of any man living , ' Tis an ad - vantage very rarely known , to receive at once a great honour and a great ...
... should not only appear the beft writer in the world , but , what I much more defire to be thought , the most your fervant of any man living , ' Tis an ad - vantage very rarely known , to receive at once a great honour and a great ...
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Página 20 - 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?
Página 264 - I hate and detest that animal called man, although I heartily love John, Peter, Thomas, and so forth.
Página 14 - ... not very common to young men, that the attractions of the world have not dazzled me very much ; and I...
Página 305 - I will further tell you, that all my endeavours, from a boy, to distinguish myself, were only for want of a great title and fortune, that I might be used like a Lord by those who have an opinion of my parts — whether right or wrong, it is no great matter, and so the reputation of wit or great learning does the office of a blue ribbon, or of a coach and six horses.
Página 107 - The bottom is paved with simple pebble, as is also the adjoining walk up the wilderness to the temple, in the natural taste, agreeing not ill with the little dripping murmur, and the aquatic idea of the whole place.
Página 91 - ... as a kind of hint of the order of time in which they are to be taken.
Página 365 - All my acquaintance tell me, they know not above three families where they can occafionally dine in a whole year : Dr. Delany is the only gentleman I know, who keeps one certain day in the week to entertain...
Página 374 - ... I've been long ago, of my Wit ; my fyftem is a fhort one, and my circle narrow. Imagination has no limits, and that is...
Página 243 - Curll, when I was in credit; but the rogue would never allow me a fair stroke at them, although my penknife was ready drawn and sharp.
Página 167 - 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...