The Works of Alexander Pope Esq, Հատոր 7J. and P. Knapton [and others], 1751 |
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... hear you , at our very first meeting , doing justice to your dead friend Mr. Dryden . I was not fo happy as to know him : * If one were to judge of this set of Letters by the man- ner of thinking and turn of expreffion , one fhould con ...
... hear you , at our very first meeting , doing justice to your dead friend Mr. Dryden . I was not fo happy as to know him : * If one were to judge of this set of Letters by the man- ner of thinking and turn of expreffion , one fhould con ...
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... hear you had thought upon fince . I find Menage in his obfervations upon Taffo's Aminta , reckons up fourfcore paftoral plays in Ita- lian and in looking over my old Italian books , I find a great many paftoral and pifcatory plays ...
... hear you had thought upon fince . I find Menage in his obfervations upon Taffo's Aminta , reckons up fourfcore paftoral plays in Ita- lian and in looking over my old Italian books , I find a great many paftoral and pifcatory plays ...
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... hear from you in the mean time , I am , with very much esteem , Your , & c . A LETTER VI . Oct. 22 , 1706 . FTER the thoughts I have already sent you on the fubject of English Verfification , you defire my opinion as to fome farther ...
... hear from you in the mean time , I am , with very much esteem , Your , & c . A LETTER VI . Oct. 22 , 1706 . FTER the thoughts I have already sent you on the fubject of English Verfification , you defire my opinion as to fome farther ...
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... hear their works : and next , that you are not so arrant a critic , as to damn them ( like the reft ) without hearing . But now I talk of thofe critics , I have good news to tell you concerning myself , for which I expect you fhould ...
... hear their works : and next , that you are not so arrant a critic , as to damn them ( like the reft ) without hearing . But now I talk of thofe critics , I have good news to tell you concerning myself , for which I expect you fhould ...
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... hear you have been confin'd to your cham- ber by an illness , which , I fear , was as troublesome . a companion as I have fometimes been in the fame . place ; where , if ever you found any pleasure in my company , it must surely have ...
... hear you have been confin'd to your cham- ber by an illness , which , I fear , was as troublesome . a companion as I have fometimes been in the fame . place ; where , if ever you found any pleasure in my company , it must surely have ...
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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...