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Letters of Mr. Pope, and Several Eminent Persons, from the Year 1705, to 1711 Alexander Pope Visualització completa - 1735 |
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Pàgina 87 - Lordship may cause 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.
Pàgina 27 - ... 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 73 - It is not enough that nothing offends the Ear, but a good Poet will adapt the very Sounds, as well as Words, to the things he treats of. So that there is (if one may express it so) a Style of Sound. As in describing a gliding Stream, the Numbers shou'd run easy and flowing; in describing a rough Torrent or Deluge, sonorous and swelling, and so of the rest.
Pàgina 197 - I wanted nothing but a black gown and a salary to be as mere a bookworm as any there. I conformed...
Pàgina 209 - Welcome to your native soil, welcome to your friends, thrice welcome to me, whether returned in glory, blest with court interest, the love and familiarity of the great, and filled with agreeable hopes ; or melancholy with dejection, contemplative of the changes of fortune, and doubtful for the future. Whether returned a triumphant Whig or a...
Pàgina 126 - 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.
Pàgina 125 - ... to one of the few, who (in any age) have come up to that character. I am...
Pàgina 165 - I KNOW of nothing that will be so interesting to you at present, as some circumstances of the last act of that eminent comic poet, and our friend, Wycherley. He had often told me, as I doubt not he did all his acquaintance, that he would marry as soon as his life was despaired of. Accordingly, a few days before his death, he underwent the ceremony, and joined together those two sacraments which, wise men say, should be the last we receive ; for, if you...
Pàgina 65 - People seek for what they call wit, on all subjects, and in all places ; not considering that nature loves truth so well, that it hardly ever admits of flourishing : Conceit is to nature what paint is to beauty ; it is not only needless, but impairs what it would improve.
Pàgina 211 - ... went. We are now at the Bath, where (if you are not, as I heartily hope, better engaged) your coming would be the greatest pleasure to us in the world.
Informació bibliogràfica
| Títol | Letters of Mr. Pope, and Several Eminent Persons, from the Year 1705, to 1711. ... Letters of Mr. Pope, and Several Eminent Persons, from the Year 1705, to 1711, Alexander Pope |
| Autor | Alexander Pope |
| Editor | booksellers of London and Westminster, 1735 |
| Original de | Universitat d’Oxford |
| Digitalitzat el | 18 Juny 2007 |
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