The Works of Alexander Pope, Esq: In Nine Volumes Complete, with His Last Corrections, Additions, and Improvements, as They Were Delivered to the Editor a Little Before His Death, Together with the Commentary and Notes of Mr. Warburton, Հատոր 7A. Millar, J. and R. Tonson, C. Bathurst, R. Baldwin, W. Johnston, J. Richardson, B. Law, S. Crowder, T. Longman, T. Field, and T. Caslon, 1760 |
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... seems , is Pattifon . I told him I should not write any thing , but I believed it might be fo as she writ in her letter . I am extremely concerned that my former in- discretion in putting them into the hands of this Pretieufe , fhould ...
... seems , is Pattifon . I told him I should not write any thing , but I believed it might be fo as she writ in her letter . I am extremely concerned that my former in- discretion in putting them into the hands of this Pretieufe , fhould ...
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... seems not fo much the perfection of fenfe , to say things that had never been faid before , as to exprefs thofe best that have been a He should rather have faid , the perfection of con ception . faid ofteneft , and that writers , in the ...
... seems not fo much the perfection of fenfe , to say things that had never been faid before , as to exprefs thofe best that have been a He should rather have faid , the perfection of con ception . faid ofteneft , and that writers , in the ...
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... seems to doubt whether it should not be ab ovo Ledco . When he comes to the scene of his Poem , and the prize in dispute between the brothers , he gives us a very mean opinion of it - Pugna eft de paupere regno -Very different from the ...
... seems to doubt whether it should not be ab ovo Ledco . When he comes to the scene of his Poem , and the prize in dispute between the brothers , he gives us a very mean opinion of it - Pugna eft de paupere regno -Very different from the ...
Էջ 125
... seems , fearch'd in Waller , but fearch'd in vain . Your judgment of them is ( I think ) very right , -for it was my own opinion before . If you think ' em not worth the trouble of correcting , pray tell me so freely , and it will fave ...
... seems , fearch'd in Waller , but fearch'd in vain . Your judgment of them is ( I think ) very right , -for it was my own opinion before . If you think ' em not worth the trouble of correcting , pray tell me so freely , and it will fave ...
Էջ 127
... character of pastoral he rather seems to imitate . In the whole , I agree with the Tatler , that we have no better Eclogues in our language . language . There is a small copy of the famè FROM H. CROMWELL , Esq . 127 Of Philips's paftorals.
... character of pastoral he rather seems to imitate . In the whole , I agree with the Tatler , that we have no better Eclogues in our language . language . There is a small copy of the famè FROM H. CROMWELL , Esq . 127 Of Philips's paftorals.
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Էջ 252 - ... not very common to young men, that the attractions of the world have not dazzled me very much ; and I...
Էջ 339 - Lucretius to publish against Tonson's ; agreeing to pay the author so many shillings at his producing so many lines. He made a great progress in a very short time, and I gave it to the corrector to compare with the Latin; but he went directly to Creech's translation, and found it the same word for word, all but the first page. Now, what d'ye think I did ? I arrested the translator for a cheat ; nay, and I stopped the corrector's pay too, upon this proof that he had made use of Creech instead of the...
Էջ 337 - As Mr. Lintot was talking, I observed he sat uneasy on his saddle, for which I expressed some solicitude : Nothing, says he, I can bear it well enough ; but since we have the day before us, methinks it would be very pleasant for you to rest awhile under the woods.
Էջ 294 - ... 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.
Էջ 95 - HAPPY the man whose wish and care A few paternal acres bound, Content to breathe his native air, In his own ground ; Whose herds with milk, whose fields with bread, Whose flocks supply him with attire ; Whose trees in Summer yield him shade, In Winter fire.
Էջ 327 - The inhabitants of this delicious isle, as they are without riches and honours, so are they without the vices and follies that attend them ; and were they but as much strangers to revenge, as they are to avarice and ambition, they might in fact answer the poetical notions of ,the golden age.
Էջ 252 - ... an advantage not very common to young men, that the attractions of the world have not dazzled me very much...
Էջ 100 - Histories are more full of examples of the fidelity of dogs than of friends...
Էջ 255 - ... included of his belief in its immortality. The diminutive epithets of vagula, blandula...
Էջ 338 - I have known one of them take down a Greek book upon my counter, and cry, Ah, this is Hebrew, I must read it from the latter end.