The Works of Alexander Pope, Volumen 8J.F. Dove, St. John's Square, 1822 |
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... poor Papists ; we ought in recompense to cultivate as many virtues in ourselves as we can , that we may be truly great . Among my Ambitions , that of being a sincere friend is one of the chief ; yet I will confess , that I have a secret ...
... poor Papists ; we ought in recompense to cultivate as many virtues in ourselves as we can , that we may be truly great . Among my Ambitions , that of being a sincere friend is one of the chief ; yet I will confess , that I have a secret ...
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... poor as I am , I would gladly relieve any distressed , conscientious French refugee at this instant : what must my concern then be , when I perceive so many anxieties now tearing those hearts , which I have desired a place in , and ...
... poor as I am , I would gladly relieve any distressed , conscientious French refugee at this instant : what must my concern then be , when I perceive so many anxieties now tearing those hearts , which I have desired a place in , and ...
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... , not to deny me the joy of knowing it . Your endeavours of service and good advice to the poor Papists , put me in mind of Noah's preaching forty years to those folks that were to be drowned at last . At the worst 22 LETTERS TO AND FROM.
... , not to deny me the joy of knowing it . Your endeavours of service and good advice to the poor Papists , put me in mind of Noah's preaching forty years to those folks that were to be drowned at last . At the worst 22 LETTERS TO AND FROM.
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... poor man is highly concerned to vindicate Jeffery's veracity as an historian ; and told me he was per- fectly astonished , we of the Roman communion could doubt of the legends of his Giants , while we be- lieve those of our Saints . I ...
... poor man is highly concerned to vindicate Jeffery's veracity as an historian ; and told me he was per- fectly astonished , we of the Roman communion could doubt of the legends of his Giants , while we be- lieve those of our Saints . I ...
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... poor individual ; no creature to wish , or to fear , for my life or death : ' Tis the only reason I have to repent being a single man ; now I grow old I am like a tree without a prop , and without young trees to grow round me , for ...
... poor individual ; no creature to wish , or to fear , for my life or death : ' Tis the only reason I have to repent being a single man ; now I grow old I am like a tree without a prop , and without young trees to grow round me , for ...
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Página 214 - I thank God, her death was as easy as her life was innocent ; and as it cost her not a groan, or even a sigh, there is yet upon her countenance such an expression of tranquillity, nay, almost of pleasure, that it is even amiable to behold it.
Página 33 - Walls of which all the objects of the River, Hills, Woods, and Boats, are forming a moving Picture in their visible Radiations: And when you have a mind to light it up, it affords you a very different Scene: it is finished with Shells interspersed with Pieces of Looking-glass in angular forms; and in the Ceiling is a Star of the same Material, at which when a Lamp (of an orbicular Figure of thin Alabaster) is hung in the Middle, a thousand pointed Rays glitter and are reflected over the Place.
Página 157 - ... report the valuable ones of any other man. So the elegy I renounce. I condole with you from my heart, on the loss of so worthy a man, and a friend to us both. Now he is gone...
Página 153 - CONGREVE has merit of the highest kind ; he is an original writer, who borrowed neither the models of his plot nor the manner of his dialogue.
Página 113 - His figure was beautiful, but his manner was irresistible by either man or woman. It was by this engaging, graceful manner that he was enabled, during all his war, to connect the various and jarring powers of the Grand Alliance, and to carry them on to the main object of the war, notwithstanding their private and separate views, jealousies, and wrongheadednesses. Whatever court he. went to (and he was often obliged to go himself to some testy and refractory ones), he as constantly prevailed and brought...
Página 124 - I look upon you as a spirit entered into another life ', as one just upon the edge of immortality ; where the passions and affections must be much more exalted, and where you ought to despise all little views, and all mean retrospects. 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,...
Página 158 - HAVE many years ago magnified in my own mind, and repeated to you, a ninth Beatitude, added to the eighth in the Scripture ; " Blessed is he who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed.
Página 278 - I know, would even marry Dennis for your sake, because he is your man, and loves his master. In short come down forthwith, or give me good reasons for delaying, though but for a day or two, by the next post. If I find them just, I will come up to you, though you...
Página 156 - As to any papers left behind him, I dare say they can be but few; for this reason, he never wrote out of vanity, or thought much of the applause of men.
Página 362 - It is furnished with historical tapestry, whose marginal fringes do confess the moisture of the air. The other contents of this room are a broken-bellied virginal, a couple of crippled velvet chairs, with two or three mildewed pictures of mouldy ancestors who look as dismally as if they came fresh from hell with all their brimstone about 'em.