The Works of Alexander Pope, Esq. ...: LettersJ. and P. Knapton, 1751 |
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... lives . X. The use of poetical ftudies . A panegyrick upon dogs . XI . Of the taste of country gentlemen . XII . XIII . After an illness . The obfcurity of a country Life . XIV . On the fame subject . Concerning Ron- deaus . XV . From ...
... lives . X. The use of poetical ftudies . A panegyrick upon dogs . XI . Of the taste of country gentlemen . XII . XIII . After an illness . The obfcurity of a country Life . XIV . On the fame subject . Concerning Ron- deaus . XV . From ...
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... live on the good fortune of the pushing young men , whofe fancies are fo vigorous that they enfure their fuccefs in their adventures with the Mu- fes , by their ftrength of imagination . Your papers are fafe in my cuftody ( you may be ...
... live on the good fortune of the pushing young men , whofe fancies are fo vigorous that they enfure their fuccefs in their adventures with the Mu- fes , by their ftrength of imagination . Your papers are fafe in my cuftody ( you may be ...
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... live , much as they ride , at random ; a kind of hunt- ing life , pursuing with earnestness and hazard fome- thing not worth the catching ; never in the way , nor out of it . I can't but prefer folitude to the company of all thefe ; for ...
... live , much as they ride , at random ; a kind of hunt- ing life , pursuing with earnestness and hazard fome- thing not worth the catching ; never in the way , nor out of it . I can't but prefer folitude to the company of all thefe ; for ...
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... live the longer ; thus , like your master Apollo , you are at once a poet and a phyfician . Now , Sir , as to my impudent invitation of you to the town , your good nature was the first cause of my confident requeft ; but excufe me , I ...
... live the longer ; thus , like your master Apollo , you are at once a poet and a phyfician . Now , Sir , as to my impudent invitation of you to the town , your good nature was the first cause of my confident requeft ; but excufe me , I ...
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... d , fecure , and innocent ; " No pains it takes , and no offence it gives , " Unfear'd , unhated , undisturb'd it lives , & c . paper : paper : fome thoughts are contracted , where they feem'd 20 LETTERS TO AND To the fame.
... d , fecure , and innocent ; " No pains it takes , and no offence it gives , " Unfear'd , unhated , undisturb'd it lives , & c . paper : paper : fome thoughts are contracted , where they feem'd 20 LETTERS TO AND To the fame.
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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.