The Works of Alexander Pope, Esq. ...: LettersJ. and P. Knapton, 1751 |
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... seem all on a level : ' tis like a meadow newly mown , where weeds , grafs , and flowers , are all laid even , and appear undistin- guifh'd . I believe too that fometimes our first thoughts are the beft , as the first squeezing of the ...
... seem all on a level : ' tis like a meadow newly mown , where weeds , grafs , and flowers , are all laid even , and appear undistin- guifh'd . I believe too that fometimes our first thoughts are the beft , as the first squeezing of the ...
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... seems to be agreeable enough . " Go then to the fhades , and stell Achilles how I degenerate from him : " grant- ing the truth of what Priam had faid of the diffe- rence between them . Indeed Mr. Dryden's men- tioning here what Virgil ...
... seems to be agreeable enough . " Go then to the fhades , and stell Achilles how I degenerate from him : " grant- ing the truth of what Priam had faid of the diffe- rence between them . Indeed Mr. Dryden's men- tioning here what Virgil ...
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... seems , were more to be dreaded than all the ferpents , whirlwinds , fands , & c . by land , which immediately after he paints out in his fpeech to the foldiers : Then he fetches a compass a vaft way round about , to the Nafamones and ...
... seems , were more to be dreaded than all the ferpents , whirlwinds , fands , & c . by land , which immediately after he paints out in his fpeech to the foldiers : Then he fetches a compass a vaft way round about , to the Nafamones and ...
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Alexander Pope. leaves him ; who seems to have made Cato speak his own mind , when he tells his army- 4 www Ire fat eft no matter whither . I am , Your , & c . THE LETTER XXIII . From Mr. CROMWELL . , Nov. 20 , 1710 . HE fyftem of Tycho ...
Alexander Pope. leaves him ; who seems to have made Cato speak his own mind , when he tells his army- 4 www Ire fat eft no matter whither . I am , Your , & c . THE LETTER XXIII . From Mr. CROMWELL . , Nov. 20 , 1710 . HE fyftem of Tycho ...
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... seems ( with- out poffing the bounds of Chriftendom ) out - travel- led the fin of fornication : in a little time you'll look upon fome others with more patience , than the la- dies here are capable of . I reckon , you'll time it fo ...
... seems ( with- out poffing the bounds of Chriftendom ) out - travel- led the fin of fornication : in a little time you'll look upon fome others with more patience , than the la- dies here are capable of . I reckon , you'll time it fo ...
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Страница 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.
Страница 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.
Страница 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?
Страница 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.
Страница 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...
Страница 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.
Страница 184 - I never had any esteem for, are likely to enjoy this world after me. When I reflect what an...
Страница 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.
Страница 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.
Страница 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.