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... Spirit , and thoughts of penfions and preferment . XLV . Of Mr. Weftley's differtations on Fob . - Poft .. fcript by Lord B. on the pleasure we take in reading letters . XLVI . From Lord B. to Dr. Swift . Inviting him to England , and ...
... Spirit , and thoughts of penfions and preferment . XLV . Of Mr. Weftley's differtations on Fob . - Poft .. fcript by Lord B. on the pleasure we take in reading letters . XLVI . From Lord B. to Dr. Swift . Inviting him to England , and ...
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Alexander Pope. LETTER and against party - Spirit in writing . LVII . From Dr. Swift to Mr. Gay . Congratulation on Mr. Gay's leaving the Court ; Lord Corn- bury's refufal of a penfion : Character of Mr. Gay . LVIII . From the fame ...
Alexander Pope. LETTER and against party - Spirit in writing . LVII . From Dr. Swift to Mr. Gay . Congratulation on Mr. Gay's leaving the Court ; Lord Corn- bury's refufal of a penfion : Character of Mr. Gay . LVIII . From the fame ...
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... spirits . Confidering the multiplicity of pleasures and delights that one is over - run with in thofe places , I wonder how any body hath health and fpirits enough to fupport them : I am heartily glad fhe has , and whenever I hear fo ...
... spirits . Confidering the multiplicity of pleasures and delights that one is over - run with in thofe places , I wonder how any body hath health and fpirits enough to fupport them : I am heartily glad fhe has , and whenever I hear fo ...
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... spirits of a higher kind : fuch I reckon his Grace and her Grace , fince their banish- ment from an earthly court to a ... spirit too from Courts and courtly fopperies . But , I own , not altogether fo divested of terrene matter , nor ...
... spirits of a higher kind : fuch I reckon his Grace and her Grace , fince their banish- ment from an earthly court to a ... spirit too from Courts and courtly fopperies . But , I own , not altogether fo divested of terrene matter , nor ...
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... spirits flag as a companion , and shall return again to where [ firft began , my books . I have been putting my library in order , and enlarging the chimney in it , with equal in- tention to warm my mind and body ( if I can ) to fome ...
... spirits flag as a companion , and shall return again to where [ firft began , my books . I have been putting my library in order , and enlarging the chimney in it , with equal in- tention to warm my mind and body ( if I can ) to fome ...
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The works of Alexander Pope. With his last corrections, additions ..., Volume 6 Alexander Pope Volledige weergave - 1754 |
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Populaire passages
Pagina 148 - Lords and Commons, nemine contradicente; and the whole town, men, women, and children, are quite full of it. Perhaps I may all this time be talking to you of a book you have never seen, and which...
Pagina 116 - I was confident our liberty could never be placed upon a firm foundation, until that ancient law were restored among us. For who sees not that while such assemblies are permitted to have a longer duration, there grows up a commerce of corruption between the ministry and the deputies, wherein they both find their accounts, to the manifest danger of liberty — which traffic would never answer the design nor expense, if Parliaments met once a year.
Pagina 269 - Dr. Delany is the only gentleman I know who keeps one certain day in the week to entertain seven or eight friends at dinner and to pass the evening, where there is nothing of excess, either in eating or drinking.
Pagina 175 - ... is not founded upon weak appearances. Upon his return from the Bath, all peccant humours, he finds, are...
Pagina 4 - I am, when every day the performances of others appear more beautiful and excellent, and my own more despicable.
Pagina 128 - Augustus : but envy, and party, and pride have hindered it among us. I do not include the subalterns, of which you are seldom without a large tribe.
Pagina 189 - As to this country,* there have been three terrible years dearth of corn, and every place strewed with beggars; but dearths are common in better climates, and our evils here lie much deeper. Imagine a nation the two thirds of whose revenues are spent out of it, and who are not permitted to trade with the other third...
Pagina 175 - As to the return of his health and vigour, were you here, you might inquire of his hay-makers; 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 147 - Gulliver, which hath been the conversation of the whole town ever since : the whole impression sold in a week ; and nothing is more diverting than to hear the different opinions people give of it, though all agree in liking it extremely. It is generally said that you are the author : but I am told, the bookseller declares, he knows not from what hand it came.
Pagina 302 - THOUGH you were never to write to me, yet what you desired in your last, that I would write often to you, would be a very easy task ; for every day I talk with you, and of you, in my heart ; and I need only set down what that is thinking of.