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 страници |
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... imagine , that when you told me of my own Perfor- mances that they were above thofe Cri- ticks , I was fo . vain as to believe it ; and yet I may not be fo humble as to think my felf quite below their Notice . For Critics , as they are ...
... imagine , that when you told me of my own Perfor- mances that they were above thofe Cri- ticks , I was fo . vain as to believe it ; and yet I may not be fo humble as to think my felf quite below their Notice . For Critics , as they are ...
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... imagine from hence that I would decline any part of this Task On the contrary you know , I have been at the pains of transcribing fome Pieces , at once to comply with your defire of not defacing the Copy , and yet to lofe no Time in ...
... imagine from hence that I would decline any part of this Task On the contrary you know , I have been at the pains of transcribing fome Pieces , at once to comply with your defire of not defacing the Copy , and yet to lofe no Time in ...
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... imagine a Man of my importance fo ftupid , as to fay fine things to you before your Husband ? Let us fee how far Lady M. her felf dares do any thing like it , with all the wit and addrefs fhe is miftrefs of . If Sir Robert can be fo ...
... imagine a Man of my importance fo ftupid , as to fay fine things to you before your Husband ? Let us fee how far Lady M. her felf dares do any thing like it , with all the wit and addrefs fhe is miftrefs of . If Sir Robert can be fo ...
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... imagine how defirous I must be of a correfpondence with a perfon , who had taught me long ago that it was as poffible to efteem at first fight , as to love : and who has fince ruin'd me for all the conversation of one sex , and almost ...
... imagine how defirous I must be of a correfpondence with a perfon , who had taught me long ago that it was as poffible to efteem at first fight , as to love : and who has fince ruin'd me for all the conversation of one sex , and almost ...
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... imagine this was not accidental , but proceeded from a penetration which I know you have , in finding out the truth of people's fentiments ; and that you were willing , the laft man that would have par- ted from you , fhould be that ...
... imagine this was not accidental , but proceeded from a penetration which I know you have , in finding out the truth of people's fentiments ; and that you were willing , the laft man that would have par- ted from you , fhould be that ...
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Страница 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.
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Страница 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.
Страница 103 - ... tone) that it was eleven at night. All this was no ill preparation to the life I have led since, among those old...
Страница 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.