The Works of Alexander Pope, Esq. ...: LettersJ. and P. Knapton, 1751 |
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Pàgina iii
... thought needful to Mr. Pope : however he cannot think our of- fence fo great as theirs , who first separately published what we have here but collected in a better form and order . As for the letters we have procured to be added , they ...
... thought needful to Mr. Pope : however he cannot think our of- fence fo great as theirs , who first separately published what we have here but collected in a better form and order . As for the letters we have procured to be added , they ...
Pàgina iv
... thought them too good to be loft in oblivion , and had no caufe to apprehend the difobliging of any . The public , viz . all perfons of taste and judgment , would be pleafed with fo agreeable an anufement ; Mr. Cromwell could not be ...
... thought them too good to be loft in oblivion , and had no caufe to apprehend the difobliging of any . The public , viz . all perfons of taste and judgment , would be pleafed with fo agreeable an anufement ; Mr. Cromwell could not be ...
Pàgina vi
... thought not of it , nor do I think she did then ; but fevere neceffity which catches hold of a twig , has produced all this ; which has lain hid , and forgot , by me fo many years . Curll fent me a letter laft week , defiring a pofitive ...
... thought not of it , nor do I think she did then ; but fevere neceffity which catches hold of a twig , has produced all this ; which has lain hid , and forgot , by me fo many years . Curll fent me a letter laft week , defiring a pofitive ...
Pàgina vii
... thought of the undesigning error of Your faithful Friend , and humble Servant , HENRY CROMWELL . Now Now fhould our apology for this publication be as ill SURREPTITIOUS EDITION . Of the Emperor Adrian Against the violence of parties ...
... thought of the undesigning error of Your faithful Friend , and humble Servant , HENRY CROMWELL . Now Now fhould our apology for this publication be as ill SURREPTITIOUS EDITION . Of the Emperor Adrian Against the violence of parties ...
Pàgina xiii
... thought a juftice due to him , to fhew the world his better judgment ; and that it was his last resolution to have fuppreffed those poems . As fome of the Letters which had paffed between him and our author cleared that point , they ...
... thought a juftice due to him , to fhew the world his better judgment ; and that it was his last resolution to have fuppreffed those poems . As fome of the Letters which had paffed between him and our author cleared that point , they ...
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Passatges populars
Pàgina 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.
Pàgina 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.
Pàgina 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?
Pàgina 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.
Pàgina 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...
Pàgina 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.
Pàgina 184 - I never had any esteem for, are likely to enjoy this world after me. When I reflect what an...
Pàgina 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.
Pàgina 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.
Pàgina 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.