The Works of Alexander Pope: LettersJ. and P. Knapton, 1751 |
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Pagina 7
... reason ; that Religion and Trade , which at firft were open and free , have been reduced into the Management of Companies , and the Roguery of Directors . I don't know why I tell you all this , but that I always loved to talk to you ...
... reason ; that Religion and Trade , which at firft were open and free , have been reduced into the Management of Companies , and the Roguery of Directors . I don't know why I tell you all this , but that I always loved to talk to you ...
Pagina 31
... reason of things , that I am ready to imagine there never was any fuch monster as Party . Alas , I am foon awaken- ed from that pleafing dream by the Greek and Ro- man Hiftorians , by Guicciardine , by Machiavel , and Thuanus ; for I ...
... reason of things , that I am ready to imagine there never was any fuch monster as Party . Alas , I am foon awaken- ed from that pleafing dream by the Greek and Ro- man Hiftorians , by Guicciardine , by Machiavel , and Thuanus ; for I ...
Pagina 37
... reason he has to defire a little longer life , is the wish to see you once more . He is gay enough in this circumftance to tell you , he wou'd give you ( if he cou'd ) fuch advice as might cure your deafnefs , but he would not advise ...
... reason he has to defire a little longer life , is the wish to see you once more . He is gay enough in this circumftance to tell you , he wou'd give you ( if he cou'd ) fuch advice as might cure your deafnefs , but he would not advise ...
Pagina 40
... reason ; if they don't promote him , they'll fpoil the conclufion of one of my Satires , where , having endeavoured to correct the Tafte of the town in wit and criticifm , I end thus , But what avails to lay down rules for fenfe ? In's ...
... reason ; if they don't promote him , they'll fpoil the conclufion of one of my Satires , where , having endeavoured to correct the Tafte of the town in wit and criticifm , I end thus , But what avails to lay down rules for fenfe ? In's ...
Pagina 42
... reason to com- plain of me , for want of a generous disdain of this world , though I have not loft my Ears in yours and their fervice . Lord Oxford too ( whom I have now the third time mentioned in this Letter , and he de- ferves to be ...
... reason to com- plain of me , for want of a generous disdain of this world , though I have not loft my Ears in yours and their fervice . Lord Oxford too ( whom I have now the third time mentioned in this Letter , and he de- ferves to be ...
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Populaire passages
Pagina 65 - 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 55 - ... beans and bacon, and a barn-door fowl. Now his lordship is run after his cart, I have a moment left to myself to tell you, that I overheard him yesterday agree with a painter for 200£ to paint his country-hall with trophies of rakes, spades, prongs, &c. and other ornaments, merely to countenance his calling this place a farm...
Pagina 69 - I used to be going to bed, surfeited with pleasure, or jaded with business : my head often full of schemes, and my heart as often full of anxiety. Is it a misfortune, think you, that I rise at this hour refreshed, serene, and calm ? that the past...
Pagina 37 - ... he is not without fault : there is a passage in Bede highly commending the piety and learning of the Irish in that age, where, after abundance of praises, he overthrows them all, by lamenting that, alas ! they kept Easter at a wrong time of the year.
Pagina 29 - I find no considerable man very angry at the book; some indeed think it rather too bold, and too general a satire; but none that I hear of accuse it of particular reflections...
Pagina 65 - Graevius and Gronovius, which make thirty-one volumes in folio (and were given me by my Lord Bolingbroke), more than all my books besides ; because whoever comes into my closet, casts his eyes immediately upon them, and will not vouchsafe to look upon Plato or Xenophon.
Pagina 65 - I remember when I was a little boy I felt a great fish at the end of my line which I drew up almost on the ground, but it dropped in, and the disappointment vexes me to this very day, and I believe it was the type of all my future disappointments.
Pagina 109 - ... out of this kingdom. Two or three of us had a fancy, three years ago, to write a weekly paper, and call it an Intelligencer.
Pagina 19 - I ever abominated that scheme of politics (now about thirty years old) of setting up a moneyed interest in opposition to the landed. For I conceived there could not be a truer maxim in our government than this, that the possessors of the soil are the best judges of what is for the advantage of the kingdom. If others had thought the same way, funds of credit and South Sea projects would neither have been felt nor heard of.
Pagina 9 - Give me leave then to put you in mind (although you cannot easily forget it) that about ten weeks before the Queen's death, I left the town, upon occasion of that incurable breach among the great men at court, and went down to Berkshire, where you may remember that you gave me the favour of a visit.