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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... most valuable antiquities ; and alfo to the geographical elucidations of the plain of Troy , at the fame period , by Mr. Gell ; publifhed 1804 , and dedicated to the Duchefs of Devonshire . May I men . tion , on this occafion , a ...
... most valuable antiquities ; and alfo to the geographical elucidations of the plain of Troy , at the fame period , by Mr. Gell ; publifhed 1804 , and dedicated to the Duchefs of Devonshire . May I men . tion , on this occafion , a ...
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... most im- portant concerns in a future being , is but a needlefs , anxious , * All this , which is fo contrary to the fpirit of epiftolary writing , was perhaps part of a juvenile Moral Effay , which he was unwilling to lofe , and ...
... most im- portant concerns in a future being , is but a needlefs , anxious , * All this , which is fo contrary to the fpirit of epiftolary writing , was perhaps part of a juvenile Moral Effay , which he was unwilling to lofe , and ...
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... most heroic thing we are left capable of doing , is to endeavour to lighten each other's load , and ( oppreffed as we are ) to fuccour fuch as are yet more oppreffed . If there are too many who cannot be affifted but by what we cannot ...
... most heroic thing we are left capable of doing , is to endeavour to lighten each other's load , and ( oppreffed as we are ) to fuccour fuch as are yet more oppreffed . If there are too many who cannot be affifted but by what we cannot ...
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... most of them have given lamentable proofs of the contrary ; and it is to be ap- prehended that they who want fense , are only religious through weakness , and good - natured through fhame . These are narrow - minded creatures that never ...
... most of them have given lamentable proofs of the contrary ; and it is to be ap- prehended that they who want fense , are only religious through weakness , and good - natured through fhame . These are narrow - minded creatures that never ...
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... most things , as the other is for almost every thing , ) and go with me where war will not reach us , nor paultry conftables fummon us to veftries . The future epistle you flatter me with , will find me still here , and I think I may be ...
... most things , as the other is for almost every thing , ) and go with me where war will not reach us , nor paultry conftables fummon us to veftries . The future epistle you flatter me with , will find me still here , and I think I may be ...
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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.