Mr. Pope's Literary Correspondence for Thirty Years; from 1704 to 1734. Being, a Collection of Letters, which Passed Between Him and Several Eminent Persons. Volume the FirstE. Curll, 1735 - 439 Seiten |
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... our felves . To HENRY CROMWELL , Efq ; AR June 27 , 17272 FTER fo long a filence , as the ma- ny and great oppreffions I have figh'd under has occafion'd , one is at a Lofs how A 2 to to begin a letter to fo kind a friend as PREFACE .
... our felves . To HENRY CROMWELL , Efq ; AR June 27 , 17272 FTER fo long a filence , as the ma- ny and great oppreffions I have figh'd under has occafion'd , one is at a Lofs how A 2 to to begin a letter to fo kind a friend as PREFACE .
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Alexander Pope. to begin a letter to fo kind a friend as your felf , But as it was always my refolution , if I must fink , to do it as decently [ that is as filently ] as I cou'd : fo when I found my felf plung'd into unforeseen , and ...
Alexander Pope. to begin a letter to fo kind a friend as your felf , But as it was always my refolution , if I must fink , to do it as decently [ that is as filently ] as I cou'd : fo when I found my felf plung'd into unforeseen , and ...
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... begin to twinkle in a re- tirement , for your own fakes , and without the vanity which every one now will take to be thought " Tour , & c . Yo LETTER VIII . OU have ask'd me News a hundred times at the firft word you spoke to me , which ...
... begin to twinkle in a re- tirement , for your own fakes , and without the vanity which every one now will take to be thought " Tour , & c . Yo LETTER VIII . OU have ask'd me News a hundred times at the firft word you spoke to me , which ...
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... begin then , Madam , by asking you a question , that may enable me to judge better of my own conduct than most inftances of my Life . In what manner did I behave the laft hour I faw you ? What degree of concern did I difcover when I ...
... begin then , Madam , by asking you a question , that may enable me to judge better of my own conduct than most inftances of my Life . In what manner did I behave the laft hour I faw you ? What degree of concern did I difcover when I ...
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... begin to talk of my own Works . I find it is in the finishing a Book , as in concluding a Seffion of Parliament , one al- ways thinks it will be very foon , and finds it very late . There are many unlook'd for Incidents to retard the ...
... begin to talk of my own Works . I find it is in the finishing a Book , as in concluding a Seffion of Parliament , one al- ways thinks it will be very foon , and finds it very late . There are many unlook'd for Incidents to retard the ...
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Seite 101 - L. walked with me three or four hours by moonlight, and we met no creature of any quality but the king...
Seite 151 - My Dear, it is only this; that you will never marry an old Man again.
Seite 29 - ... not very common to young men, that the attractions of the world have not dazzled me very much ; and I...
Seite 198 - Parnell is in an ill state of health. "Pardon me if I add a word of advice in the poetical way.
Seite 176 - ... a perspective glass. When you shut the doors of this grotto it becomes on the instant, from a luminous room, a Camera obscura, on the walls of which all the objects of the river, hills, woods and boats are forming a moving picture in their visible radiations; and when you have a mind to light it up, it affords you a very different scene.
Seite 100 - 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 is worse a hundred times) with a red mark on the forehead from an uneasy hat; all this may qualify them to make excellent wives for fox-hunters, and bear abundance of ruddycomplexioned children.
Seite 28 - 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.
Seite 196 - One or two of your own friends complained they had heard nothing from you since the Queen's death. I told them no man living loved Mr. Gay better than I, yet I had not once written to him in all his voyage. This I thought a convincing proof, how truly one may be a friend to another without telling him so every month.
Seite 103 - ... tone) that it was eleven at night. All this was no ill preparation to the life I have led since, among those old...
Seite 196 - ... politics were never your concern. If you are a Whig, as I rather hope, and as I think, your principles and mine (as brother poets) had ever a bias to the side of liberty, I know you will be an honest man, and an inoffensive one. Upon the whole, I know, you are incapable of being so much of either party as to be good for nothing.