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 xiii
... twenty years and upwards , found , and in the hands of a lady , a worthy and judicious relation of the Dean's . This a mistake ; not in hers , but in fome other fafe hands . LETTERS to RALPH ALLEN Efq ; LXXXIX . Of the ufe of picture ...
... twenty years and upwards , found , and in the hands of a lady , a worthy and judicious relation of the Dean's . This a mistake ; not in hers , but in fome other fafe hands . LETTERS to RALPH ALLEN Efq ; LXXXIX . Of the ufe of picture ...
Pagina 8
... twenty . I have heard no foul talk of it here , for indeed it is not come over ; nor do we very much abound in judges , at least I have not the ho- nour to be acquainted with them . Your Notes are perfectly good , and fo are your ...
... twenty . I have heard no foul talk of it here , for indeed it is not come over ; nor do we very much abound in judges , at least I have not the ho- nour to be acquainted with them . Your Notes are perfectly good , and fo are your ...
Pagina 49
... twenty - four hours . I procrastinate more than I did twenty years ago , and have several things to finish which I put off to twenty years hence ; Hæc eft vita Solutorum , & c . I send you the compliments of a friend of yours , who hath ...
... twenty - four hours . I procrastinate more than I did twenty years ago , and have several things to finish which I put off to twenty years hence ; Hæc eft vita Solutorum , & c . I send you the compliments of a friend of yours , who hath ...
Pagina 63
... a few more lines of your Satire , but I hope in a few months to fee it all . To hear boys , like you , talk of Millenniums and tranquillity ! I am am older by thirty years , Lord Bolingbroke by twenty FROM DR . SWIFT , & c . 63.
... a few more lines of your Satire , but I hope in a few months to fee it all . To hear boys , like you , talk of Millenniums and tranquillity ! I am am older by thirty years , Lord Bolingbroke by twenty FROM DR . SWIFT , & c . 63.
Pagina 64
... twenty , and you but by ten , than when we last were together ; and we fhould differ more than ever , you coquetting a maid of honour , my Lord looking on to fee how the gamefters play , and I railing at you both . I defire you and all ...
... twenty , and you but by ten , than when we last were together ; and we fhould differ more than ever , you coquetting a maid of honour , my Lord looking on to fee how the gamefters play , and I railing at you both . I defire you and all ...
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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...