The Works of Alexander Pope, Esq. In Verse and Prose: Containing the Principal Notes of Drs. Warburton and Warton: Illustrations, and Critical and Explanatory Remarks, by Johnson, Wakefield, A. Chalmers, F.S.A. and Others. To which are Added, Now First Published, Some Original Letters, with Additional Observations, and Memoirs of the Life of the Author, Volumen 8J. Johnson, J. Nichols and Son, R. Baldwin, F. and C. Rivington, W. Otridge and Son ... [and 24 others], 1806 |
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... less importance , than to remove such and fuch mountains , alter the course of such and such rivers , place a large city on fuch a coaft , and raze an- other in another country . I have fet bounds to the fea , and said to the land ...
... less importance , than to remove such and fuch mountains , alter the course of such and such rivers , place a large city on fuch a coaft , and raze an- other in another country . I have fet bounds to the fea , and said to the land ...
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... less expert in feparating Truth from Semblance ; in accurately difcerning the tender hues , if I may fo express it , of genuine feeling , and the trong lines and glaring colours of profeffion . Pope poffibly deceived himself : the ...
... less expert in feparating Truth from Semblance ; in accurately difcerning the tender hues , if I may fo express it , of genuine feeling , and the trong lines and glaring colours of profeffion . Pope poffibly deceived himself : the ...
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... less pain than it did you , only from my ignorance of it . I should have else been seriously and deeply afflicted , in the thought of your danger by a fever . I think it a fine and a natural thought , which I lately read in a letter of ...
... less pain than it did you , only from my ignorance of it . I should have else been seriously and deeply afflicted , in the thought of your danger by a fever . I think it a fine and a natural thought , which I lately read in a letter of ...
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... less than a hundred years , that what Pope and Bathurit confidered as " fuch things as dreams are made of , " the junction of the Thames and Severn , has actually taken place ; and the " admiration " is , that it could be fo long before ...
... less than a hundred years , that what Pope and Bathurit confidered as " fuch things as dreams are made of , " the junction of the Thames and Severn , has actually taken place ; and the " admiration " is , that it could be fo long before ...
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... less than ever I did . But I can deny you no- thing ; especially fince you have had the goodness often , and patiently , to hear what I have said against rhyme , and in behalf of blank verfe * ; with little difcretion , perhaps , but ...
... less than ever I did . But I can deny you no- thing ; especially fince you have had the goodness often , and patiently , to hear what I have said against rhyme , and in behalf of blank verfe * ; with little difcretion , perhaps , but ...
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Adieu affure againſt almoſt anſwer Atterbury becauſe beft beſt BISHOP OF ROCHESTER Blount buſineſs cafe cauſe circumftance converfation Correfpondence death defire Digby Duchefs eaſy elſe eſteem exprefs faid fame fatire fatisfaction feems fend fenfe fenfible fentiments fhall fhew fhould fide fifter fince fincere finiſhed firſt fome fomething foon fpirits friendſhip ftill fubject fuch fuffer fure Gorboduc greateſt HANS SLOANE happineſs himſelf Homer honeft honour hope houſe juft juſt kindneſs Lady Scudamore laft laſt leaſt lefs leſs LETTER live lofs loft Lord Mary Digby mind moft moſt muft muſt myſelf never obferved occafion paffed perfon pleafed pleaſed pleaſure Pope Pope's prefent reaſon reflection ROBERT DIGBY ſay ſee ſeems ſhall ſhe ſtate ſtill ſuch Tadlow tafte tell thefe theſe thing thofe thoſe thought tranflation Twickenham underſtand uſe verſes WARBURTON WARTON whofe wifh wiſh write yourſelf
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Página 15 - I know of nothing that will be so interesting to you, at present, as some circumstances of the last act of that eminent comic poet, and our friend, Wycherley. He had often told me, as, I doubt not, he did all his acquaintance, that he would marry, as soon as his life was despaired of: accordingly, a few days before his death, he underwent the ceremony, and joined together those two sacraments, which, wise men say, should be the last we receive...
Página 186 - It was but this very morning that he had obtained her parents' consent, and it was but till the next week that they were to wait to be happy. Perhaps...
Página 159 - Nothing is worth your looking back ; and therefore look forward, and make (as you can) the world look after you. But take care that it be not with pity, but with esteem and admiration. I am with the greatest sincerity, and passion for your fame as well as happiness, Your, &c.
Página 404 - The labourers, all solicitous for each other's safety, called to one another : those that were nearest our lovers, hearing no answer, stepped to the place where they lay : they first saw a little smoke, and after, this faithful pair; — John, with one arm about his Sarah's neck, and the other held over her face, as if to screen her from the lightning. They were struck dead, and already grown stiff and cold in this tender posture. There was no mark or discolouring on their bodies, only that Sarah's...
Página 367 - Addison's hands, which shall be sent as soon as you order it, and in what manner you shall appoint. I shall, in the mean time, give Mr. Tooke a packet for you, consisting of divers merry pieces ; Mr. Gay's new farce ; Mr. Burnet's Letter to Mr. Pope ; Mr.
Página 154 - If you do, my Lord, it is but lately. May I beg to know what new light or arguments have prevailed with you now, to entertain an opinion so contrary to that which you entertained of that Book all the former part of your life ?
Página 180 - DEAR MR. GAY, — Welcome to your native soil, welcome to your friends, thrice welcome to me, whether returned in glory, blest with court interest, the love and familiarity of the great, and filled with agreeable hopes ; or melancholy with dejection, contemplative of the changes of fortune, and doubtful for the future. Whether returned a triumphant Whig or a...
Página 435 - Over the parlour window hangs a sloping balcony, which time has turned to a very convenient penthouse. The top is crowned with a very venerable tower, so like that of the church just by, that the jackdaws build in it as if it were the true steeple.
Página 187 - ... till the next week that they were to wait to be happy. Perhaps in the intervals of their work they were now talking of the...
Página 178 - I am, when every day the performances of others appear more beautiful and excellent, and my own more despicable.