The Works of Alexander Pope, Հատոր 5J. Balfour, 1764 |
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Alexander Pope. ginal of Adam by Eve , you will have a more favour- able thought of the undefigning error of Your faithful Friend , and humble Servant , HENRY CROMWELL . Now , fhould our apology for this publication be as ill received ...
Alexander Pope. ginal of Adam by Eve , you will have a more favour- able thought of the undefigning error of Your faithful Friend , and humble Servant , HENRY CROMWELL . Now , fhould our apology for this publication be as ill received ...
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... favour . As it is not to Vanity but to Friendship that he intends this Monument , he would fave his enemies the mortification of showing any further how well their Betters have thought of him : and at the fame time fecure from their ...
... favour . As it is not to Vanity but to Friendship that he intends this Monument , he would fave his enemies the mortification of showing any further how well their Betters have thought of him : and at the fame time fecure from their ...
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... favour , that a debtor may be an honeft man , if he but intends to be juft when he is able , tho ' late . But I fhould be lefs juft to you , the more I thought I could make a return to fo much profufeness of Wit and Humanity together ...
... favour , that a debtor may be an honeft man , if he but intends to be juft when he is able , tho ' late . But I fhould be lefs juft to you , the more I thought I could make a return to fo much profufeness of Wit and Humanity together ...
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... favoured me with ; which I therefore think the belt , as the longest life ( if a good one ) is the beft ; as it yields the more variety , and is the more exemplary ; as a chearful fummer's day , though longer than a dull one in the ...
... favoured me with ; which I therefore think the belt , as the longest life ( if a good one ) is the beft ; as it yields the more variety , and is the more exemplary ; as a chearful fummer's day , though longer than a dull one in the ...
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... favour , acquit him of the debt ; but that shall not ferve your turn ; I will always own , ' tis my infallible Pope has , or would redeem me from a poetical damning , the fecond time ; and fave my rhimes from being condemn'd to the ...
... favour , acquit him of the debt ; but that shall not ferve your turn ; I will always own , ' tis my infallible Pope has , or would redeem me from a poetical damning , the fecond time ; and fave my rhimes from being condemn'd to the ...
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Էջ 78 - ... shade. In winter fire. Blest, who can unconcern'dly find Hours, days, and years slide soft away. In health of body, peace of mind, Quiet by day. Sound sleep by night; study and ease, Together mixt; sweet recreation: And innocence, which most does please With meditation.
Էջ 150 - To eat Westphalia ham in a morning; ride over hedges and ditches on borrowed hacks; come home in the heat of the day with a fever, and (what...
Էջ 325 - The bottom is paved with simple pebble, as is also the adjoining walk up the wilderness to the temple, in the natural taste, agreeing not ill with the little dripping murmur, and the aquatic idea of the whole place.
Էջ 206 - ... putrify, and are good for nothing, and running violently on, do but the more mischief in their passage to others, and are swallowed up and lost the sooner themselves.
Էջ 400 - I look upon you as a spirit entered into another life ', as one just upon the edge of immortality ; where the passions and affections must be much more exalted, and where you ought to despise all little views, and all mean retrospects. Nothing is worth your looking back ; and therefore look forward, and make (as you can) the world look after you. But take care that it be not with pity, but with esteem and admiration. I am with the greatest sincerity, and passion for your fame as well as happiness,...
Էջ 207 - Sickness is a sort of early old age; it teaches us a diffidence in our earthly state, and inspires us with the thoughts of a future, better than a thousand volumes of philosophers and divines.
Էջ 399 - Remember, it was at such a time that the greatest lights of antiquity dazzled and blazed the most in their retreat, in their exile, or in their death ; but why do I talk of dazzling or blazing? it was then that they did good, that they gave light, and that they became guides to mankind.
Էջ 178 - Bolingbroke sent for Booth, who played Cato, into the box, between one of the acts, and presented him with fifty guineas ; in acknowledgment (as he expressed it) for defending the cause of liberty so well against a perpetual dictator.
Էջ 266 - ... to one of the few, who (in any age) have come up to that character. I am...
Էջ 208 - ... very common to young men, that the attractions of the world have not dazzled me very much ; and I...