Letters to and from Mr. PopeJ. Donaldson, 1789 - 282 էջ |
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... never called him by any other name in your life : and yet in bis days he was ftyled Lucius , Septimius , Severus , Pius , Pertinax , Auguftus , Parthicus , Adiabenicus , Arabicus , Maximus , and what not ? What a prodigi- ous waste of ...
... never called him by any other name in your life : and yet in bis days he was ftyled Lucius , Septimius , Severus , Pius , Pertinax , Auguftus , Parthicus , Adiabenicus , Arabicus , Maximus , and what not ? What a prodigi- ous waste of ...
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... never over - abounding in tranfitory coin , fhould not be difcontented ( methinks ) even though poems were dif- tributed gratis about the streets , like Bunyan's fer- mons , and other pious treatifes , ufually published in a like volume ...
... never over - abounding in tranfitory coin , fhould not be difcontented ( methinks ) even though poems were dif- tributed gratis about the streets , like Bunyan's fer- mons , and other pious treatifes , ufually published in a like volume ...
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... never had more reason to accuse nature for making me fhort- fighted than now , when I could not recollect I had ever feen those fair eyes which knew me fo well , and was utterly at a lofs how to address myself , till , with a great deal ...
... never had more reason to accuse nature for making me fhort- fighted than now , when I could not recollect I had ever feen those fair eyes which knew me fo well , and was utterly at a lofs how to address myself , till , with a great deal ...
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... never knew practised in our nation , and , I verily be- lieve , it was not in ufe with the Greeks or Romans , neither Macrobius nor Hyginus taking the leaft notice of it . It is to be observed , that the vulgar spelling and pronouncing ...
... never knew practised in our nation , and , I verily be- lieve , it was not in ufe with the Greeks or Romans , neither Macrobius nor Hyginus taking the leaft notice of it . It is to be observed , that the vulgar spelling and pronouncing ...
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... never be unfincere , though I may be often mistaken . To ufe fincerity with you is but paying you in your own coin , from whom I have experienced fo much of it ; and I need not tell . you , how much I really esteem you , when I efteem ...
... never be unfincere , though I may be often mistaken . To ufe fincerity with you is but paying you in your own coin , from whom I have experienced fo much of it ; and I need not tell . you , how much I really esteem you , when I efteem ...
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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.