The Works of Alexander Pope Esq, Հատոր 7J. and P. Knapton [and others], 1751 |
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... 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 Yours , & c . LET- LETTER III . March 25 , 1705 . THEN I 4 LETTERS TO AND.
... 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 Yours , & c . LET- LETTER III . March 25 , 1705 . THEN I 4 LETTERS TO AND.
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... trouble kindly : fuch is your generofity to your friends , that you take it kindly to be defired by them to do them a kindness ; and you think it done to you , when they give you an opportunity to do it them . Wherefore you may be fure ...
... trouble kindly : fuch is your generofity to your friends , that you take it kindly to be defired by them to do them a kindness ; and you think it done to you , when they give you an opportunity to do it them . Wherefore you may be fure ...
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... trouble you take for me , in putting my Rhimes in tune , fince good founds fet off often ill fenfe , as the Italian fongs , whofe good airs , with the worst words or meaning , make the beft mufic ; fo by your tuning my Welch harp , my ...
... trouble you take for me , in putting my Rhimes in tune , fince good founds fet off often ill fenfe , as the Italian fongs , whofe good airs , with the worst words or meaning , make the beft mufic ; fo by your tuning my Welch harp , my ...
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... trouble you have undergone , for me , in com- Ο paring my papers you took down with you , with the old printed volume , and with one another , of that bundle you have in your hands ; amongst which , ( you fay ) you find numerous ...
... trouble you have undergone , for me , in com- Ο paring my papers you took down with you , with the old printed volume , and with one another , of that bundle you have in your hands ; amongst which , ( you fay ) you find numerous ...
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... trouble I have given you , since so much . Now as to what you call freedom with me , ( which you defire me to forgive ) you may be affur'd I would not forgive you unless you did ufe it ; for I am fo far from thinking your plainness an ...
... trouble I have given you , since so much . Now as to what you call freedom with me , ( which you defire me to forgive ) you may be affur'd I would not forgive you unless you did ufe it ; for I am fo far from thinking your plainness an ...
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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...