The Works of Alexander Pope Esq, Հատոր 7J. and P. Knapton [and others], 1751 |
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Alexander Pope William Warburton. - - - - Contents of the Seventh Volume . LETTERS to and from On ike same subjeti, to the Hon Mrs.
Alexander Pope William Warburton. - - - - Contents of the Seventh Volume . LETTERS to and from On ike same subjeti, to the Hon Mrs.
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... Having been absent about fix weeks , I read over your Paftorals again , with a great deal of plea- fure , and to judge the better read Virgil's Eclogues , and and Spenfer's Calendar , at the same time ; and FROM W. WALSH , ESQ . 47.
... Having been absent about fix weeks , I read over your Paftorals again , with a great deal of plea- fure , and to judge the better read Virgil's Eclogues , and and Spenfer's Calendar , at the same time ; and FROM W. WALSH , ESQ . 47.
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Alexander Pope. and Spenfer's Calendar , at the same time ; and , Í affure you , I continue the fame opinion I had always of them . By the little hints you take upon all oc- cafions to improve them , ' tis probable you will make them yet ...
Alexander Pope. and Spenfer's Calendar , at the same time ; and , Í affure you , I continue the fame opinion I had always of them . By the little hints you take upon all oc- cafions to improve them , ' tis probable you will make them yet ...
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... same warm fun , and breathed the fame air with Virgil and Horace ? There are here an incredible number of Poets , that have all the inclination , but want the genius , or perhaps the art , of the Ancients . Some among them , who ...
... same warm fun , and breathed the fame air with Virgil and Horace ? There are here an incredible number of Poets , that have all the inclination , but want the genius , or perhaps the art , of the Ancients . Some among them , who ...
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... - ciple to preferve the memory of that , which itself must foon fall into duft , nay perhaps part of it , be- fore this letter reaches your hands . Indeed we owe this old house the same kind of Indeed 252 LETTERS TO AND.
... - ciple to preferve the memory of that , which itself must foon fall into duft , nay perhaps part of it , be- fore this letter reaches your hands . Indeed we owe this old house the same kind of Indeed 252 LETTERS TO AND.
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Էջ 69 - 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 190 - 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?
Էջ 190 - The Dying Christian to his Soul: Ode Vital spark of heav'nly flame! Quit, oh quit this mortal frame: Trembling, hoping, ling'ring, flying. Oh the pain, the bliss of dying! Cease, fond Nature, cease thy strife, And let me languish into life. Hark! they whisper; Angels say. Sister spirit, come away.
Էջ 189 - I should myself be much better pleased, if I were told you called me your little friend, than if you complimented me with the title of a great genius, or an eminent hand, as Jacob does all his authors.
Էջ 244 - Don't you design to let him pass a year at Oxford ? "To what purpose? (said he) the Universities do but make Pedants, and I intend to breed him a man of business.
Էջ 244 - Now damn them ! what if they should put it into the newspaper, how you and I went together to Oxford ? what would I care? If I should go down into Sussex, they would say I was gone to the Speaker. But what of that ? If my son were but big enough to go on with the business, by G — d I would keep as good company as old Jacob.
Էջ 214 - ... 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 236 - ... to one of the few, who (in any age) have come up to that character. I am...
Էջ 132 - Shakespear has it) to dinner, with what appetite they may and after that, till midnight, walk, work, or think, which they please.
Էջ 184 - ... not very common to young men, that the attractions of the world have not dazzled me very much ; and I...