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... JUST to you , with some fhame that I had so long deferred it . But I can hardly repent my neglect , when it gives me the knowledge how little you infiit upon ceremony , and how much a greater share in your memory , I have , than I ...
... JUST to you , with some fhame that I had so long deferred it . But I can hardly repent my neglect , when it gives me the knowledge how little you infiit upon ceremony , and how much a greater share in your memory , I have , than I ...
Pagina 20
... just received the news of the death of a friend , whom I efteemed almoft as many years as you ; poor Fenton . He died at Easthamstead , of indolence and inactivity ; let it not be your fate , but use exercise . I hope the Duchefs will ...
... just received the news of the death of a friend , whom I efteemed almoft as many years as you ; poor Fenton . He died at Easthamstead , of indolence and inactivity ; let it not be your fate , but use exercise . I hope the Duchefs will ...
Pagina 21
... just as I ever shall be , ¥ I am , Your , etc. I DEAR SIR , LETTER XVi . ›› O & . 6 , 1727 .. Have many years ago magnify'd , in my own mind , and repeated to you , a ninth Beatitude , added to the eight in the Scripture ; " Bleffed is ...
... just as I ever shall be , ¥ I am , Your , etc. I DEAR SIR , LETTER XVi . ›› O & . 6 , 1727 .. Have many years ago magnify'd , in my own mind , and repeated to you , a ninth Beatitude , added to the eight in the Scripture ; " Bleffed is ...
Pagina 31
... just three days in London in four months , two at Windfor , half an one at Richmond , and have not taken one excursion into any other country . Judge now whether I can live in my library . Adieu . Live mindful of one of your first ...
... just three days in London in four months , two at Windfor , half an one at Richmond , and have not taken one excursion into any other country . Judge now whether I can live in my library . Adieu . Live mindful of one of your first ...
Pagina 32
... , all one's life , any little indignity one receivės from a Court ; and therefore I am in hopes , neither her Grace will hinder you , nor you decline it .. The volume of Miscellanies is just publish'd , which concludes 32 LETTERS TO AND.
... , all one's life , any little indignity one receivės from a Court ; and therefore I am in hopes , neither her Grace will hinder you , nor you decline it .. The volume of Miscellanies is just publish'd , which concludes 32 LETTERS TO AND.
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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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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.