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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... cause to apprehend the difobliging of any . The public , viz . all perfons of taste and judgment , would be pleased with fo agreeable an amusement ; Mr. Cromwell could not be angry , fince it was but justice to his merit , to publish ...
... cause to apprehend the difobliging of any . The public , viz . all perfons of taste and judgment , would be pleased with fo agreeable an amusement ; Mr. Cromwell could not be angry , fince it was but justice to his merit , to publish ...
Էջ vii
... cause to think it much offence to his modefty or reflection on his judgment , when we take care to inform the public , that there are few Letters of his in this collection , which were not writ- ten under twenty years band , we doubt ...
... cause to think it much offence to his modefty or reflection on his judgment , when we take care to inform the public , that there are few Letters of his in this collection , which were not writ- ten under twenty years band , we doubt ...
Էջ xiii
... caused a copy to be taken to depofite in the library of a noble friend ; that in case either of the revival of flanders , or the publication of furreptitious Letters , during his life or after , a proper use might be made of them . The ...
... caused a copy to be taken to depofite in the library of a noble friend ; that in case either of the revival of flanders , or the publication of furreptitious Letters , during his life or after , a proper use might be made of them . The ...
Էջ xviii
... cause them to be demanded , and confequently the more you will be injured . The injury is of such a nature , as the Law ( which does not punish for Inten- tions ) cannot prevent ; and when done , may punish , but not redrefs . You are ...
... cause them to be demanded , and confequently the more you will be injured . The injury is of such a nature , as the Law ( which does not punish for Inten- tions ) cannot prevent ; and when done , may punish , but not redrefs . You are ...
Էջ 13
... caused by our finding the fame difpofitions in them , which we feel in ourselves . This is but felf - love at the bottom : whereas the affection betwixt people of different ages cannot well be fo , the inclinations of fuch being ...
... caused by our finding the fame difpofitions in them , which we feel in ourselves . This is but felf - love at the bottom : whereas the affection betwixt people of different ages cannot well be fo , the inclinations of fuch being ...
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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.