Letters to and from Mr. PopeJ. Donaldson, 1789 - 282 էջ |
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... defign to perform it : how much foever his other excellent qualities are above my imitation , his fincerity , I hope , is not ; and it is with the utmost that I am , LETTER Sir , & c . V. Jan. 22 , 1708-9 . I HAD fent you the inclofed ...
... defign to perform it : how much foever his other excellent qualities are above my imitation , his fincerity , I hope , is not ; and it is with the utmost that I am , LETTER Sir , & c . V. Jan. 22 , 1708-9 . I HAD fent you the inclofed ...
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... defign of feeing my friends there , among the first of which I have reafon to account yourself . But my almost continual illneffes prevent that , as well as most other fatisfactions of my life . However , I may fay one good thing of ...
... defign of feeing my friends there , among the first of which I have reafon to account yourself . But my almost continual illneffes prevent that , as well as most other fatisfactions of my life . However , I may fay one good thing of ...
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... defign , form , fable , ( which is the foul of poetry ) , all that concerns exactnefs , or confent of parts , ( which is the body ) , will probably be wanting ; only pretty conceptions , fine metaphors , glittering expreffions , and ...
... defign , form , fable , ( which is the foul of poetry ) , all that concerns exactnefs , or confent of parts , ( which is the body ) , will probably be wanting ; only pretty conceptions , fine metaphors , glittering expreffions , and ...
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... defign very foon to put a task . of a more serious nature upon you , in reviewing a piece of mine that may better deferve criticism ; and by that time you have done with it , I hope to tell you . in perfon with how much fidelity I am ...
... defign very foon to put a task . of a more serious nature upon you , in reviewing a piece of mine that may better deferve criticism ; and by that time you have done with it , I hope to tell you . in perfon with how much fidelity I am ...
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... defign will be vain ; for even in a mona- ftery your devotions cannot carry you fo far toward . the next world , as to make this lofe the fight of you ; but you will be like a star , that , while it is fixed to . heaven , fhines over ...
... defign will be vain ; for even in a mona- ftery your devotions cannot carry you fo far toward . the next world , as to make this lofe the fight of you ; but you will be like a star , that , while it is fixed to . heaven , fhines over ...
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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.