The Works of Alexander Pope Esq, Հատոր 7J. and P. Knapton [and others], 1751 |
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... lefs I am capable to follow them . Then the best way of fhewing my judgment , after having feen how you write , is to leave off writing ; and the best way to fhew my friendship to you , is to put an end to your trouble , and to conclude ...
... lefs I am capable to follow them . Then the best way of fhewing my judgment , after having feen how you write , is to leave off writing ; and the best way to fhew my friendship to you , is to put an end to your trouble , and to conclude ...
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... lefs tedious and more enter- taining . Therefore let but your friendship be like your letter , as lafting as it is agreeable , and it can never be tedious , but more acceptable and obliging to Your , & c . I LETTER V. From Mr. WY ...
... lefs tedious and more enter- taining . Therefore let but your friendship be like your letter , as lafting as it is agreeable , and it can never be tedious , but more acceptable and obliging to Your , & c . I LETTER V. From Mr. WY ...
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... lefs acquaint- ed with the ways of the world , has in all probability lefs of intereft ; and an old man , who may be weary of himself , has , or should have lefs of felf - love ; fo the friendship between them is the more likely to be ...
... lefs acquaint- ed with the ways of the world , has in all probability lefs of intereft ; and an old man , who may be weary of himself , has , or should have lefs of felf - love ; fo the friendship between them is the more likely to be ...
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... lefs bloody chace , you may fee a pack of fpaniels , called lovers , in a hot pursuit of a two - legged vixen , who only flies the whole loud pack to be fingled out by one dog , who runs mute to catch her up the fooner from the reft ...
... lefs bloody chace , you may fee a pack of fpaniels , called lovers , in a hot pursuit of a two - legged vixen , who only flies the whole loud pack to be fingled out by one dog , who runs mute to catch her up the fooner from the reft ...
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... lefs , as the Dutch are faid to burn half the spices they bring home , to in- hance the price of the remainder , fo to be greater gainers by their lofs , ( which is indeed my cafe now . ) You have prun'd my fading lawrels of some super ...
... lefs , as the Dutch are faid to burn half the spices they bring home , to in- hance the price of the remainder , fo to be greater gainers by their lofs , ( which is indeed my cafe now . ) You have prun'd my fading lawrels of some super ...
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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...