The Works of Alexander Pope, Esq: In Nine Volumes Complete, with His Last Corrections, Additions, and Improvements, as They Were Delivered to the Editor a Little Before His Death, Together with the Commentary and Notes of Mr. Warburton, Volume 9A. Millar, J. and R. Tonson, C. Bathurst, R. Baldwin, W. Johnston, J. Richardson, B. Law, S. Crowder, T. Longman, T. Field, and T. Caslon, 1760 |
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Pagina 22
... person I am utterly igno- rant , nor ever had once the curiofity to enquire into either , living at fo great a distance as I do , and having long done with whatever can relate to public matters , Indeed I have formerly delivered my ...
... person I am utterly igno- rant , nor ever had once the curiofity to enquire into either , living at fo great a distance as I do , and having long done with whatever can relate to public matters , Indeed I have formerly delivered my ...
Pagina 30
... person whose face a Minifter thinks fit to diflike , are not only oppofite to that Maxim , which declareth it better that ten guilty men should escape , than one innocent fuffer ; but likewife leave a gate wide open to the whole tribe ...
... person whose face a Minifter thinks fit to diflike , are not only oppofite to that Maxim , which declareth it better that ten guilty men should escape , than one innocent fuffer ; but likewife leave a gate wide open to the whole tribe ...
Pagina 76
... person who least ap- proves it , blaming it as a defign of evil confe- quence to depreciate human nature , at which it cannot be wondered that he takes most offence , being himself the most accomplish'd of his spe- cies , and fo lofing ...
... person who least ap- proves it , blaming it as a defign of evil confe- quence to depreciate human nature , at which it cannot be wondered that he takes most offence , being himself the most accomplish'd of his spe- cies , and fo lofing ...
Pagina 104
... person about whom I concern myself very little ) I must say a word or two out of complai- fance to you . I am in my farm , and here I fhoot ftrong and tenacious roots : I have caught hold of the earth ( to use a Gardener's phrafe ) and ...
... person about whom I concern myself very little ) I must say a word or two out of complai- fance to you . I am in my farm , and here I fhoot ftrong and tenacious roots : I have caught hold of the earth ( to use a Gardener's phrafe ) and ...
Pagina 106
... person is an anabaptist , and not christen'd till full age , which fets all right . However it be , the accident is very fingular , that these two names fhould be united . Mr. Mr. Gay's Opera has been acted near forty days running 106 ...
... person is an anabaptist , and not christen'd till full age , which fets all right . However it be , the accident is very fingular , that these two names fhould be united . Mr. Mr. Gay's Opera has been acted near forty days running 106 ...
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Populaire passages
Pagina 132 - I will further tell you, that all my endeavours, from a boy, to distinguish myself, were only for want of a great title and fortune, that I might be used like a Lord by those who have an opinion of my parts — whether right or wrong, it is no great matter, and so the reputation of wit or great learning does the office of a blue ribbon, or of a coach and six horses.
Pagina 50 - I have often endeavoured to establish a friendship among all men of genius, and would fain have it done : they are seldom above three or four contemporaries, and if they could be united, would drive the world before them.
Pagina 56 - The matter is so clear that it will admit of no dispute ; nay, I will hold a hundred pounds that you and I agree in the point.
Pagina 54 - I like the scheme of our meeting after distresses and dispersions, but the chief end I propose to myself in all my labours is to vex the world rather than divert it ; and if I could compass that design without hurting my own person or fortune, I would be the most indefatigable writer you have ever seen without reading.
Pagina 167 - I thought of; and you will be surprised to find that I have been partly drawn by him, and partly by myself, to write a pretty large volume upon a very grave and very important...
Pagina 117 - As to the return of his health and vigour, were you here, you might inquire of his haymakers ; but as to his temperance, I can answer that (for one whole day) we have had nothing for dinner but mutton broth, beans and bacon, and a barn-door fowl.
Pagina 26 - The first quickly wears off, and is the vice of low minds, for a man of spirit is too proud to be vain ; and the other was not my case.
Pagina 223 - It is not now indeed a time to think of myself, when one of the nearest and longest ties I have ever had, is broken all on a sudden by the unexpected death of poor Mr. Gay. An inflammatory fever hurried him out of this life in three days. He...
Pagina 77 - The politicians to a man agree, that it is free from particular reflections, but that the satire on general societies of men is too severe.
Pagina 61 - I've fancied, I say, that we should meet like the righteous in the Millennium, quite in peace, divested of all our former passions, smiling at our past follies, and content to enjoy the kingdom of the just in tranquillity. But I find you would rather be employed as an avenging angel of wrath...