The Works of Alexander Pope Esq, Հատոր 7J. and P. Knapton [and others], 1751 |
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Էջ xvi
... nature , as the Law ( which does not punish for In- tentions ) cannot prevent ; and when done , may pu- nifh , but not redrefs . You are therefore reduced , either to enter into a perfonal treaty with fuch a man ( which tho ' the ...
... nature , as the Law ( which does not punish for In- tentions ) cannot prevent ; and when done , may pu- nifh , but not redrefs . You are therefore reduced , either to enter into a perfonal treaty with fuch a man ( which tho ' the ...
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... natural inclination to carrion : and tho ' fuch poor writers as I are but beggars , no beggar is fo poor but he can keep a cur , and no au- thor is fo beggarly but he can keep a critic . I am far from thinking the attacks of fuch people ...
... natural inclination to carrion : and tho ' fuch poor writers as I are but beggars , no beggar is fo poor but he can keep a cur , and no au- thor is fo beggarly but he can keep a critic . I am far from thinking the attacks of fuch people ...
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... nature as good fenfe ( fince they generally are companions ‡ ) will have * This is no definition of wit at all , but of good writing in general . + Mr. Locke had given a better . But his Effay was a work our young Poet did not then ...
... nature as good fenfe ( fince they generally are companions ‡ ) will have * This is no definition of wit at all , but of good writing in general . + Mr. Locke had given a better . But his Effay was a work our young Poet did not then ...
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... nature too . As for my green effays , if you find any pleasure in them , it must be fuch as a man naturally takes in obferving the firft fhoots and buddings of a tree which he has raised himself and ' tis impoffible they should be ...
... nature too . As for my green effays , if you find any pleasure in them , it must be fuch as a man naturally takes in obferving the firft fhoots and buddings of a tree which he has raised himself and ' tis impoffible they should be ...
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... - ftructive state of life . We fee nothing more com- monly , than men , who for the fake of the circum- ftantial part and mere outside of life , have been half 3 their their days rambling out of their nature , and ought iz LETTERS TO AND 2.
... - ftructive state of life . We fee nothing more com- monly , than men , who for the fake of the circum- ftantial part and mere outside of life , have been half 3 their their days rambling out of their nature , and ought iz LETTERS TO AND 2.
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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...