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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... turn may put an end entirely to the divifions of Whig and Tory ; that the parties may love each other as well as I love them both , or at least hurt each other as little as I would either : and that our own people may live as quietly as ...
... turn may put an end entirely to the divifions of Whig and Tory ; that the parties may love each other as well as I love them both , or at least hurt each other as little as I would either : and that our own people may live as quietly as ...
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... turn entertained me ; but I muft acquaint you ' there * is * During this vifit , it is said , that Pope defired him to write a Tragedy on the Death of Charles the Firft ; which he declined , on account of the recency of the event , and ...
... turn entertained me ; but I muft acquaint you ' there * is * During this vifit , it is said , that Pope defired him to write a Tragedy on the Death of Charles the Firft ; which he declined , on account of the recency of the event , and ...
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... turn in . Poe- tically speaking , I fhould lament the lofs Windfor- Forest and you sustain of each other , but that me- thinks , one can't . fay you are parted , because you will * This leffon was referved for his friends Bolingbroke ...
... turn in . Poe- tically speaking , I fhould lament the lofs Windfor- Forest and you sustain of each other , but that me- thinks , one can't . fay you are parted , because you will * This leffon was referved for his friends Bolingbroke ...
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... turn upon what is lefs agreeable , the violence , madness , and refentment of modern War- makers ̊ , which are likely to prove ( to fome people at least ) more fatal , than the fame qualities in Achil- les did to his unfortunate ...
... turn upon what is lefs agreeable , the violence , madness , and refentment of modern War- makers ̊ , which are likely to prove ( to fome people at least ) more fatal , than the fame qualities in Achil- les did to his unfortunate ...
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... turns we chance to take ) ; and indeed the world is fuch a thing , as one that thinks pretty much must either laugh ... turn ! " The most inattentive reader cannot but obferve how much Pope's mind is tinctured with the circumftances of ...
... turns we chance to take ) ; and indeed the world is fuch a thing , as one that thinks pretty much must either laugh ... turn ! " The most inattentive reader cannot but obferve how much Pope's mind is tinctured with the circumftances of ...
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.