The Works of Alexander Pope: LettersJ. and P. Knapton, 1751 |
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... hear you , at our first meeting , doing justice to your dead friend Mr. Dryden . I was not fo happy as to know him : very * If one were to judge of this fet of Letters by the man- ner of thinking and turn of expreffion , one fhould con ...
... hear you , at our first meeting , doing justice to your dead friend Mr. Dryden . I was not fo happy as to know him : very * If one were to judge of this fet of Letters by the man- ner of thinking and turn of expreffion , one fhould con ...
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... hear you had thought upon fince . I find Menage in his obfervations upon Taffo's Aminta , reckons up fourfcore paftoral plays in Ita- lian and in looking over my old Italian books , I find a great many paftoral and pifcatory plays ...
... hear you had thought upon fince . I find Menage in his obfervations upon Taffo's Aminta , reckons up fourfcore paftoral plays in Ita- lian and in looking over my old Italian books , I find a great many paftoral and pifcatory plays ...
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... hear from you in the mean time . I am , with very much efteem , Your , & c . A LETTER VI . Q & t . 22 , 1706 . you FTER the thoughts I have already fent on the fubject of English Verfification , you defire my opinion as to fome farther ...
... hear from you in the mean time . I am , with very much efteem , Your , & c . A LETTER VI . Q & t . 22 , 1706 . you FTER the thoughts I have already fent on the fubject of English Verfification , you defire my opinion as to fome farther ...
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... hear their works : and next , that you are not fo arrant a critic , as to damn them ( like the reft ) without hearing . But now I talk of thofe critics , I have good news to tell you concerning myself , for which I expect you fhould ...
... hear their works : and next , that you are not fo arrant a critic , as to damn them ( like the reft ) without hearing . But now I talk of thofe critics , I have good news to tell you concerning myself , for which I expect you fhould ...
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... hear you have been confin'd to your cham- ber by an illness , which , I fear , was as troublesome a companion as I have fometimes been in the fame place ; where , if ever you found any pleasure in my company , it must furely have been ...
... hear you have been confin'd to your cham- ber by an illness , which , I fear , was as troublesome a companion as I have fometimes been in the fame place ; where , if ever you found any pleasure in my company , it must furely have been ...
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Página 67 - HAPPY the man whose wish and care A few paternal acres bound, Content to breathe his native air, In his own ground ; Whose herds with milk, whose fields with bread, Whose flocks supply him with attire ; Whose trees in Summer yield him shade, In Winter fire.
Página 188 - The world recedes; it disappears! Heaven opens on my eyes; my ears With sounds seraphic ring! Lend, lend your wings! I mount! I fly! O Grave! where is thy victory? O Death! where is thy sting?
Página 130 - To eat Westphalia ham in a morning ; ride over hedges and ditches on borrowed hacks ; come home in the heat of the day with a fever, and (what...
Página 240 - Nothing, says he, I can bear it well enough ; but since we have the day before us, methinks it would be very pleasant for you to rest awhile under the woods.
Página 67 - Whose herds with milk, whose fields with bread, Whose flocks supply him with attire; Whose trees in summer yield him shade, In winter, fire. Blest, who can unconcern'dly find Hours, days, and years, slide soft away In health of body; peace of mind; Quiet by day ; Sound sleep by night; study and ease Together mix'd; sweet recreation, And innocence, which most does please With meditation.
Página 212 - ... me to live agreeably in the town, or contentedly in the country, which is really all the difference I set between an easy fortune and a small one.
Página 132 - ... to the falls of cataracts below, and the murmuring of the winds above. The gloomy verdure of Stonor succeeded to these, and then the shades of the evening overtook me.
Página 67 - ... shade. In winter fire. Blest, who can unconcern'dly find Hours, days, and years slide soft away. In health of body, peace of mind, Quiet by day. Sound sleep by night; study and ease, Together mixt; sweet recreation: And innocence, which most does please With meditation.
Página 72 - Histories are more full of examples of the fidelity of dogs than of friends...