The Works of Alexander Pope, Esq. ...: LettersJ. and P. Knapton, 1751 |
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... fend us as good ones from your frde ! I am ever , & c . I LETTER VII . Mr. Port to Dr. SWIFT . Jan. 12 , 1723 . Find a rebuke in a late Letter of yours , that both ftings and pleafeth me extremely . Your faying that I ought to have writ ...
... fend us as good ones from your frde ! I am ever , & c . I LETTER VII . Mr. Port to Dr. SWIFT . Jan. 12 , 1723 . Find a rebuke in a late Letter of yours , that both ftings and pleafeth me extremely . Your faying that I ought to have writ ...
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... , or he teazes me like the Fly . This is the Picture of an old Friend , and more like him than that will be which you once asked , and which he will fend you , you , if you continue ftill to defire it . 32 LETTERS TO AND.
... , or he teazes me like the Fly . This is the Picture of an old Friend , and more like him than that will be which you once asked , and which he will fend you , you , if you continue ftill to defire it . 32 LETTERS TO AND.
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... fend you the compliments of a friend of yours , who hath paffed four months this fummer with two grave acquaintance at his country - house without ever once going to Dublin , which is but eight miles diftant ; yet when he returns to ...
... fend you the compliments of a friend of yours , who hath paffed four months this fummer with two grave acquaintance at his country - house without ever once going to Dublin , which is but eight miles diftant ; yet when he returns to ...
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... fend it to you . But it will be much better to come over your self , and read it here , where you will have the pleasure of variety of commentators , to explain the difficult paffages to you . We all rejoice that you have fixed the ...
... fend it to you . But it will be much better to come over your self , and read it here , where you will have the pleasure of variety of commentators , to explain the difficult paffages to you . We all rejoice that you have fixed the ...
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... fend the best I can pick from them , to add to the new volume . I have reafon to chufe the me- thod you mention of mixing the several verses , and I hope thereby among the bad Critics to be entitled- to more merit than is my due . This ...
... fend the best I can pick from them , to add to the new volume . I have reafon to chufe the me- thod you mention of mixing the several verses , and I hope thereby among the bad Critics to be entitled- to more merit than is my due . This ...
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Էջ 119 - I used to be going to bed, surfeited with pleasure, or jaded with business : my head often full of schemes, and my heart as often full of anxiety. Is it a misfortune, think you, that I rise at this hour refreshed, serene, and calm ? that the past...
Էջ 97 - As to this country,* there have been three terrible years dearth of corn, and every place strewed with beggars; but dearths are common in better climates, and our evils here lie much deeper. Imagine a nation the two thirds of whose revenues are spent out of it, and who are not permitted to trade with the other third, and where the pride of women will not suffer...
Էջ 159 - Two or three of us had a fancy, three years ago, to write a weekly paper, and call it an Intelligencer. But it continued not long ; for the whole volume (it was reprinted in London, and I find you have seen it,) was the work only of two, myself and Dr.
Էջ 64 - But the best way of convincing you of my indulgence, will be, if I live, to visit you in Ireland, and act there as much in my own way as you did here in yours.
Էջ 55 - Lords and Commons, nemine contradicente; and the whole town, men, women, and children, are quite full of it. Perhaps I may all this time be talking to you of a book you have never seen, and which...
Էջ 53 - The politicians to a man agree, that it is free from particular reflections, but that the satire on general societies of men is too severe.
Էջ 178 - Dr. Delany is the only gentleman I know, who keeps one certain day in the week to entertain seven or eight friends at dinner, and to pass the evening, where there is nothing of excess, either in eating or drinking.
Էջ 139 - ... to your stock, and then I shall be in less pain about you. I know you can find dinners, but you love twelvepenny coaches too well, without considering that the interest of a whole thousand pounds brings you but half a crown a day...
Էջ 121 - I muft accommodate my plan to this deficiency. In the mean time Pope has given me more trouble than he or I thought of ; and you will be...
Էջ 177 - It is true our meat and wine is cheaper here, as it is always in the poorest countries, because there is no money to pay for them : I believe there are not in this whole city three gentlemen out of employment, who are able to give entertainments...