The Works of Alexander Pope, Esq. ...: LettersJ. and P. Knapton, 1751 |
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... pray help me to a better † , as , I doubt not , you can . I am , & c . I LETTER II . From Mr. WYCHERLEY . Jan. 25 , 1704-5 . Have been fo bufy of late in correcting and tran- fcribing fome of my madrigals for a great man or two who ...
... pray help me to a better † , as , I doubt not , you can . I am , & c . I LETTER II . From Mr. WYCHERLEY . Jan. 25 , 1704-5 . Have been fo bufy of late in correcting and tran- fcribing fome of my madrigals for a great man or two who ...
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... pray how is it poffible to have the one without the other ? we must admire be- fore we love . You affirm , you would have me fo much your friend as to appear your enemy , and find out your faults rather than your perfections ; but ( my ...
... pray how is it poffible to have the one without the other ? we must admire be- fore we love . You affirm , you would have me fo much your friend as to appear your enemy , and find out your faults rather than your perfections ; but ( my ...
Σελίδα 16
... Pray let me know your mind in this , for I am utterly at a lofs . Yet I have try'd what I could do to fome of the songs , and the poems on Laziness and Ignorance , but can't ( even in my own partial judgment ) think my alterations much ...
... Pray let me know your mind in this , for I am utterly at a lofs . Yet I have try'd what I could do to fome of the songs , and the poems on Laziness and Ignorance , but can't ( even in my own partial judgment ) think my alterations much ...
Σελίδα 21
... pray write to me when you can , you cannot too often . You LETTTER XIV . From Mr. WY CHERLEY . Nov. 22 , 1707 . OU may fee by my ftyle , I had the happiness and fatisfaction to receive yesterday , by the hands of Mr. Englefyld , your ...
... pray write to me when you can , you cannot too often . You LETTTER XIV . From Mr. WY CHERLEY . Nov. 22 , 1707 . OU may fee by my ftyle , I had the happiness and fatisfaction to receive yesterday , by the hands of Mr. Englefyld , your ...
Σελίδα 32
... Pray , prefent my moft humble fervice to Sir William Trumbull ; for whom and whofe judgment I have fo profound a re- fpect , that his example had almost made me marry , more than my nephew's ill carriage to me ; having once refolv❜d to ...
... Pray , prefent my moft humble fervice to Sir William Trumbull ; for whom and whofe judgment I have fo profound a re- fpect , that his example had almost made me marry , more than my nephew's ill carriage to me ; having once refolv❜d to ...
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Σελίδα 70 - ... 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.
Σελίδα 69 - HAPPY the man whose wish and care A few paternal acres bound, Content to breathe his native air, In his own ground ; Whose herds with milk, whose fields with bread, Whose flocks supply him with attire ; Whose trees in Summer yield him shade, In Winter fire.
Σελίδα 190 - The world recedes; it disappears! Heaven opens on my eyes; my ears With sounds seraphic ring! Lend, lend your wings! I mount! I fly! O Grave! where is thy victory? O Death! where is thy sting?
Σελίδα 245 - Pray, Mr. Lintot, (said I,) now you talk of Translators, what is your method of managing them? "Sir, (replied he,) those are the saddest pack of rogues in the world : in a hungry fit they'll swear they understand all the languages in the universe : I have known one of them take down a Greek book upon my counter, and cry, Ah, this is Hebrew, I must read it from the latter end.
Σελίδα 185 - I confess, I cannot apprehend where lies the trifling in all this : it is the most natural and obvious reflection imaginable to a dying man : and, if we...
Σελίδα 244 - Now damn them ! what if they should put it into the newspaper, how you and I went together to Oxford ? what would I care? If I should go down into Sussex, they would say I was gone to the Speaker. But what of that ? If my son were but big enough to go on with the business, by G — d I would keep as good company as old Jacob.
Σελίδα 184 - I never had any esteem for, are likely to enjoy this world after me. When I reflect what an...
Σελίδα 182 - ... 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.
Σελίδα 236 - 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.
Σελίδα 132 - L. walked with me three or four hours by moonlight, and we met no creature of any quality but the King, who gave audience to the vicechamberlain all alone under the garden wall.