The Works of Alexander Pope, Esq: In Nine Volumes, Complete. With Notes and Illustrations by Joseph Warton, D.D. and Others, Volumen 8B. Law, J. Johnson, C. Dilly [and others], 1797 |
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... most im- portant concerns in a future being , is but a needlefs , anxious , and uncertain hafte to be knowing , fooner than we can , what without all this folicitude we shall know a little later . We are but curious impertinents in the ...
... most im- portant concerns in a future being , is but a needlefs , anxious , and uncertain hafte to be knowing , fooner than we can , what without all this folicitude we shall know a little later . We are but curious impertinents in the ...
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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 fenfe , are only religious through weakness , and good - natured through shame . 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 fenfe , are only religious through weakness , and good - natured through shame . 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 ftill 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 ftill here , and I think I may be ...
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... most politic way is to feem always better pleased than one can be , greater ad- mirers , greater lovers , and in fhort , greater fools , than we really are : fo fhall we live comfortably with our families , quietly with our neighbours ...
... most politic way is to feem always better pleased than one can be , greater ad- mirers , greater lovers , and in fhort , greater fools , than we really are : fo fhall we live comfortably with our families , quietly with our neighbours ...
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... most unfit man in the world to anfwer , by my lofs of one of the best of Fathers . He had lived in fuch a courfe of Temperance as was enough to make the longest life agreable to him , and * At which General Oglethorpe was prefent , and ...
... most unfit man in the world to anfwer , by my lofs of one of the best of Fathers . He had lived in fuch a courfe of Temperance as was enough to make the longest life agreable to him , and * At which General Oglethorpe was prefent , and ...
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Adieu affure againſt almoſt anſwer becauſe beſt Biſhop BISHOP OF ROCHESTER buſineſs cauſe circumſtances converfation Court Dear Sir deferves defire Duchefs elſe eſteem fafe faid fame fatire fatisfaction feems feen fend fenfe fent fervant fhall fhew fhould fince fincere firſt fome fomething foon forry fpirit friendſhip ftill fubject fuch fuffer fure give Gorboduc greateſt happineſs heart himſelf Homer honeft honour hope houſe itſelf juft juſt Lady laft laſt leaſt lefs leſs LETTER live Lord Lord Bathurst Lord Bolingbroke mind moft moſt muſt myſelf never obferve obliged occafion paffed perfon pleaſed pleaſure Pope praiſe Pray prefent preferve promiſe publiſhed raiſe reaſon refpect ſay ſcene ſee ſeems ſhall ſhe ſome ſtate ſtill ſuch taſte tell theſe thing thofe thoſe thought town tranflation Twickenham uſe verſes whofe wifh wiſh worſe writ write yourſelf
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Página 360 - The labourers, all solicitous for each other's safety, called to one another : those that were nearest our lovers, hearing no answer, stepped to the place where they lay : they first saw a little smoke, and after, this faithful pair ; — John, with one arm about his Sarah's neck, and the other held over her face, as if to screen her from the lightning. They were struck dead, and already grown stiff and cold in this tender posture. There was no mark or discolouring on their bodies, only that Sarah's...
Página 119 - 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 359 - Their love was the talk, but not the scandal of the whole neighbourhood ; for all they aimed at was the blameless possession of each other in marriage. 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.
Página 34 - The bottom is paved with simple pebble, as is also the adjoining walk up the wilderness to the temple, in the natural taste, agreeing not ill with the little dripping murmur, and the aquatic idea of the whole place.
Página 81 - I have a due sense of the excellence of the British constitution. In a word, the things I have always wished to see, are, not a Roman Catholic, or a French Catholic, or a Spanish Catholic, but a true Catholic; and not a King of Whigs, or a King of Tories, but a King of England ; which God of his mercy grant his present Majesty may be, and all future majesties.
Página 359 - 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 this very day, in the intervals of their work, they were talking of...
Página 300 - Letcomb, where the Dean makes a great part of my imaginary entertainment, this being the cheapest way of treating me ; I hope he will not be displeased at this...
Página 128 - Christian all. You may now begin to think your manhood was too much a puerility ; and you will never suffer your age to be but a second infancy.
Página 146 - ... went. We are now at the Bath, where (if you are not, as I heartily hope, better engaged) your coming would be the greatest pleasure to us in the world.
Página 388 - Over the parlour window hangs a sloping balcony, which time has turned to a very convenient penthouse. The top is crowned with a very venerable tower, so like that of the church just by, that the jackdaws build in it as if it were the true steeple.