The Works of Alexander Pope, Volumen 8J. F. Dove, St. John's Square, 1822 |
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... less importance , than to remove such and such mountains , alter the course of such and such rivers , place a large city on such a coast , and raze an- other in another country . I have set bounds to the sea , and said to the land ...
... less importance , than to remove such and such mountains , alter the course of such and such rivers , place a large city on such a coast , and raze an- other in another country . I have set bounds to the sea , and said to the land ...
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... less peevish in his sickness than he used to be in his health ; nei- ther 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 ...
... less peevish in his sickness than he used to be in his health ; nei- ther 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 ...
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... less shameful art of losing time . What we here call sci- ence and study , are little better : the greater number of arts to which we apply ourselves are mere groping in the dark ; and even the search of our most im- portant concerns in ...
... less shameful art of losing time . What we here call sci- ence and study , are little better : the greater number of arts to which we apply ourselves are mere groping in the dark ; and even the search of our most im- portant concerns in ...
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... less to your satisfaction ; for , if I know you right , your pleasure is greater in obliging me , than I can feel on my part , till it falls in my power to oblige you . Your remark , that the variety of opinions in poli- tics or ...
... less to your satisfaction ; for , if I know you right , your pleasure is greater in obliging me , than I can feel on my part , till it falls in my power to oblige you . Your remark , that the variety of opinions in poli- tics or ...
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... less agreeable , the violence , madness , and resentment , of modern War - makers1 , which are likely to prove ( to some peo- ple at least ) more fatal , than the same qualities in Achilles did to his unfortunate countrymen . Though the ...
... less agreeable , the violence , madness , and resentment , of modern War - makers1 , which are likely to prove ( to some peo- ple at least ) more fatal , than the same qualities in Achilles did to his unfortunate countrymen . Though the ...
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Página 335 - tis justice, soon or late, Mercy alike to kill or save. Virtue unmov'd can hear the call, And face the flash that melts the ball.
Página 214 - I thank God, her death was as easy as her life was innocent ; and as it cost her not a groan, or even a sigh, there is yet upon her countenance such an expression of tranquillity, nay, almost of pleasure, that it is even amiable to behold it.
Página 33 - Walls of which all the objects of the River, Hills, Woods, and Boats, are forming a moving Picture in their visible Radiations: And when you have a mind to light it up, it affords you a very different Scene: it is finished with Shells interspersed with Pieces of Looking-glass in angular forms; and in the Ceiling is a Star of the same Material, at which when a Lamp (of an orbicular Figure of thin Alabaster) is hung in the Middle, a thousand pointed Rays glitter and are reflected over the Place.
Página 113 - His figure was beautiful ; but his manner was irresistible, by either man or woman. It was by this engaging, graceful manner, that he was enabled, during all his war, to connect the various and jarring powers of the Grand Alliance, and to carry them on to the main object of the war, notwithstanding their private and separate views, jealousies, and wrongheadednesses. Whatever court he went to (and he was often obliged to go himself to some resty and refractory ones), he as constantly prevailed, and...
Página 158 - HAVE many years ago magnified in my own mind, and repeated to you, a ninth Beatitude, added to the eighth in the Scripture ; " Blessed is he who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed.
Página 153 - CONGREVE has merit of the highest kind ; he is an original writer, who borrowed neither the models of his plot nor the manner of his dialogue.
Página 124 - I look upon you as a spirit entered into another life ', as one just upon the edge of immortality ; where the passions and affections must be much more exalted, and where you ought to despise all little views, and all mean retrospects. Nothing is worth your looking back ; and therefore look forward, and make (as you can) the world look after you. But take care that it be not with pity, but with esteem and admiration. I am with the greatest sincerity, and passion for your fame as well as happiness,...
Página 278 - I know, would even marry Dennis for your sake, because he is your man, and loves his master. In short come down forthwith, or give me good reasons for delaying, though but for a day or two, by the next post. If I find them just, I will come up to you, though you...
Página 156 - As to any papers left behind him, I dare say they can be but few; for this reason, he never wrote out of vanity, or thought much of the applause of men.
Página 348 - THE more I examine my own mind, the more romantic I find myself. Methinks it is a noble spirit of contradiction to fate and fortune, not to give up those that are snatched from us, but follow them with warmer zeal, the farther they are removed from the sense of it.