The works of Alexander Pope. Containing the principal notes of drs. Warburton and Warton [&c.]. To which are added, some original letters, with additional observations, and memoirs, by W.L. Bowles, Volumen 81806 |
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Página 14
... hear the first report , and therefore are obliged to listen to the fecond ; which , for fecurity fake , I do not always believe neither . It is a great many years fince I fell in love with the character of Pomponius Atticus : I longed ...
... hear the first report , and therefore are obliged to listen to the fecond ; which , for fecurity fake , I do not always believe neither . It is a great many years fince I fell in love with the character of Pomponius Atticus : I longed ...
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... hear you were got home . You must look on this as the first day I have been myself , and pass over the mad interval un - imputed to me . How punctual a correspondent I fhall henceforward be able or not able to be , God knows : But He ...
... hear you were got home . You must look on this as the first day I have been myself , and pass over the mad interval un - imputed to me . How punctual a correspondent I fhall henceforward be able or not able to be , God knows : But He ...
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... hear as well as you . But though I hear and fee all this , yet I think they would delight me more if you was here . I found the want of thefe at Twickenham while I was there with you , by which I guefs what an increase of charms it must ...
... hear as well as you . But though I hear and fee all this , yet I think they would delight me more if you was here . I found the want of thefe at Twickenham while I was there with you , by which I guefs what an increase of charms it must ...
Página 67
... hear of , in the thought of their hav- ing this effect . They tell me , you was foon content ; and * Alluding to the promised millions from the South - Sea fcheme . and that you cared not for fuch an increase as F 2 FROM MR . DIGBY . 67.
... hear of , in the thought of their hav- ing this effect . They tell me , you was foon content ; and * Alluding to the promised millions from the South - Sea fcheme . and that you cared not for fuch an increase as F 2 FROM MR . DIGBY . 67.
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... hear your good old mother might lofe all her prefent pleasures in her unwearied care of you , by your bet- ter health convincing them it is unneceffary . I am troubled , and fhall be fo , till I hear you have received this letter : for ...
... hear your good old mother might lofe all her prefent pleasures in her unwearied care of you , by your bet- ter health convincing them it is unneceffary . I am troubled , and fhall be fo , till I hear you have received this letter : for ...
Términos y frases comunes
Adieu affure againſt almoſt alſo anſwer Atterbury becauſe beſt BISHOP OF ROCHESTER Blount buſineſs cauſe circumftance converfation dear Sir death defire Digby Duchefs EDWARD BLOUNT elſe eſteem exprefs faid fame fatire fatisfaction feems fend fenfe ferve fervice fhall fhew fhould fifter fince fincere firſt fome fomething foon fpirit friendſhip ftill fubject fuch fure Gorboduc greateſt happineſs himſelf Homer honour hope houſe illneſs juft juſt kindneſs laft laſt leaſt lefs leſs LETTER live lofs Lord Lord Bolingbroke mind moft moſt muft muſt myſelf never obferved occafion paffed perfon pleaſed pleaſure Pope Pope's prefent publiſhed reaſon refpect ROBERT DIGBY ſay ſee ſeem ſhall ſhe Sherborne ſome ſtate ſtill Tadlow tafte taſte tell thefe themſelves theſe thing thofe thoſe thought tion town Tranflation Twickenham underſtand uſe Verfes verſes vifit WARBURTON WARTON whoſe wifh wiſh write yourſelf
Pasajes populares
Página 29 - GOD ALMIGHTY first planted a Garden. And indeed it is the purest of human pleasures. It is the greatest refreshment to the spirits of man; without which buildings and palaces are but gross...
Página 1 - 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 2 - I saw our friend twice after this was done, less peevish in his sickness than he used to be in his health; neither much afraid of dying, nor (which in him had been more likely) much ashamed of marrying. The evening before he expired he called his young wife to the bedside, and earnestly entreated her not to deny him one request, the last he should make.
Página 144 - Remember it was at such a time, that the greatest lights of antiquity dazzled and blazed the most, in their retreat, in their exile, or in their death : but why do I talk of dazzling or blazing ? it was then that they did good, that they gave light, and that they became guides to mankind.
Página 3 - So trivial as these circumstances are, I should not be displeased myself to know such trifles, when they concern or characterise any eminent person. The wisest and wittiest of men are seldom wiser or wittier than others in these sober moments: At least our friend ended much in the character he had lived in : And Horace's rule for a play, may as well be applied to him as a play-wright, Servetur ad imum Quails ab inceptu processerit, et sibi constet.
Página 353 - I have at length received your poem out of Mr. 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...
Página 168 - Pardon me if I add a word of advice in the poetical way. Write something on the King, or Prince, or Princess.
Página 172 - 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 136 - It never can me, who have loved and valued you ever since I knew you, and shall not fail to do it when I am not allowed to tell you so, as the case will soon be.
Página 107 - Spencer ; and I will take care to make good in every respect what I said to him when living ; particularly as to the triplet he wrote for his own epitaph ; which, while we were in good terms, I promised him should never appear on his tomb while I was dean of Westminster.