The Works of Alexander Pope Esq, Հատոր 7J. and P. Knapton [and others], 1751 |
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... present to those which are yet unpub- lifhed , of which there are more than enough to make a confiderable volume , of full as good ones , nay , I believe , of better than any in Vol . I. which I could wish you would defer , at least ...
... present to those which are yet unpub- lifhed , of which there are more than enough to make a confiderable volume , of full as good ones , nay , I believe , of better than any in Vol . I. which I could wish you would defer , at least ...
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... present . This is a truth that all men own who have either feen your writings , or heard your difcourfe ; enough to make others fhow their judgment , in ceafing to write or talk , especially to you , or in your company . However , I ...
... present . This is a truth that all men own who have either feen your writings , or heard your difcourfe ; enough to make others fhow their judgment , in ceafing to write or talk , especially to you , or in your company . However , I ...
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... present than he that gives you his heart ; and true friends would rather fee fuch thoughts as they communicate only to one another , than what they fquander about to all the world . They who can fet a right value upon any thing , will ...
... present than he that gives you his heart ; and true friends would rather fee fuch thoughts as they communicate only to one another , than what they fquander about to all the world . They who can fet a right value upon any thing , will ...
Էջ 155
... present state termi- nates in the fociety and good - will of worthy men , which I look upon as no ill earnest and foretaste of the fociety and alliance of happy souls hereafter . The continuance of your favours to me is what not only ...
... present state termi- nates in the fociety and good - will of worthy men , which I look upon as no ill earnest and foretaste of the fociety and alliance of happy souls hereafter . The continuance of your favours to me is what not only ...
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... present to be a bare looker - on , and from a practitioner turn an admirer , which is ( as the world goes ) not very ufual . Cato was not fo much the wonder of Rome in his days , as he is of Britain in ours ; and though all the foolish ...
... present to be a bare looker - on , and from a practitioner turn an admirer , which is ( as the world goes ) not very ufual . Cato was not fo much the wonder of Rome in his days , as he is of Britain in ours ; and though all the foolish ...
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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...