Letters to and from Mr. PopeJ. Donaldson, 1789 - 282 էջ |
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... have I to do with Jane Gray , as long as Mifs Molly , Mifs Betty , or Mifs Patty , are in this world ? Shall I write of beauties murdered long ago , when E 2 1 ® when there are those at this inftant that FROM H. CROMWELL , Esq ; 51.
... have I to do with Jane Gray , as long as Mifs Molly , Mifs Betty , or Mifs Patty , are in this world ? Shall I write of beauties murdered long ago , when E 2 1 ® when there are those at this inftant that FROM H. CROMWELL , Esq ; 51.
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... beauties of nature is the most eafy preparation , and gentleft tranfition to an enjoyment of thofe of heaven : as , on the contrary , a true town - life of hur ry , confufion , noife , flander , and diffenfion , is a fort of ...
... beauties of nature is the most eafy preparation , and gentleft tranfition to an enjoyment of thofe of heaven : as , on the contrary , a true town - life of hur ry , confufion , noife , flander , and diffenfion , is a fort of ...
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... feen you , to have converfed with you ; - they would have been ftrangely bit , while they thought only to fall in love with a fair lady , and you had be witched witched them with Reafon and Virtue , ( two beauties SEVERAL LADIE S.
... feen you , to have converfed with you ; - they would have been ftrangely bit , while they thought only to fall in love with a fair lady , and you had be witched witched them with Reafon and Virtue , ( two beauties SEVERAL LADIE S.
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Alexander Pope. witched them with Reafon and Virtue , ( two beauties that the very fops pretend to no acquaintance with . ) The unhappy distance at which we correfpond , re- moves a great many of those restrictions and pun & tili- ous ...
Alexander Pope. witched them with Reafon and Virtue , ( two beauties that the very fops pretend to no acquaintance with . ) The unhappy distance at which we correfpond , re- moves a great many of those restrictions and pun & tili- ous ...
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... beauties of a poem , as a man may of the proportions of a building , without having read Vitruvius , or knowing any thing of the rules of archi- tecture : but this , though it may fometimes be in the right , must be fubject to many ...
... beauties of a poem , as a man may of the proportions of a building , without having read Vitruvius , or knowing any thing of the rules of archi- tecture : but this , though it may fometimes be in the right , must be fubject to many ...
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Էջ 208 - I there found a spring of the clearest water, which falls in a perpetual rill, that echoes through the Cavern day and night. From the river Thames, you see through my arch up a walk of the wilderness, to a kind of open temple, wholly composed of shells in the rustic manner ; and from that...
Էջ 193 - My dear, it is only this, that you will never marry an old man again.
Էջ 140 - ... 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 264 - I know not but I may call upon you at my hearing, to say somewhat about my way of spending my time at the Deanery, which did not seem calculated towards managing plots and conspiracies.
Էջ 268 - The toys and baubles of your childhood are hardly now more below you, than those toys of our riper and of our declining years, the drums and rattles of ambition, and the dirt and bubbles of avarice.
Էջ 70 - 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 161 - The fields in the northern side are divided by hedgerows of myrtle. Several fountains and rivulets add to the beauty of this landscape, which is likewise set off by the variety of some barren spots, and naked rocks.
Էջ 170 - Now, sir,' continued Mr. Lintot, 'in return for the frankness I have shown, pray tell me, is it the opinion of your friends at Court that my Lord Lansdowne will be brought to the bar or not?' I told him I heard he would not, and I hoped it, my Lord being one I had particular obligations to. — 'That may be,' replied Mr. Lintot; 'but by G if he is not, I shall lose the printing of a very good trial.
Էջ 161 - ... sheep, and the top is a sandy pointed rock, from which you have the finest prospect in the world, surveying, at one view, besides several pleasant islands lying at your feet, a tract of Italy about three hundred miles in length, from the promontory of Antium to the Cape...
Էջ 160 - Inarime is an epitome of the whole earth, containing within the compass of eighteen miles, a wonderful variety of hills, vales, ragged rocks, fruitful plains, and barren mountains, all thrown together in a most romantic confusion.