The Works of Alexander Pope, Volumen 8J. F. Dove, St. John's Square, 1822 |
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... town 29 XIV . A description of a grotto 31 XV . On the approach of winter , hospitality , and a cheerful family 35 LETTERS TO AND FROM THE HONOURABLE ROBERT DIGBY . From 1717 to 1724 . 1. After a fit of sickness . Of the tragedy of ...
... town 29 XIV . A description of a grotto 31 XV . On the approach of winter , hospitality , and a cheerful family 35 LETTERS TO AND FROM THE HONOURABLE ROBERT DIGBY . From 1717 to 1724 . 1. After a fit of sickness . Of the tragedy of ...
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... town , and resume the study of Poetry . 166 The state of wit at that time 168 XXIII . On the same subject . The death of Wilks the player : Verses on the Hermitage at Rich- mond , etc. - 170 - 172 XXIV . From Mr. Gay . His ill state of ...
... town , and resume the study of Poetry . 166 The state of wit at that time 168 XXIII . On the same subject . The death of Wilks the player : Verses on the Hermitage at Rich- mond , etc. - 170 - 172 XXIV . From Mr. Gay . His ill state of ...
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... town : The Charitable Corpora- tion . More concerning Women XXXVIII . From the Earl of Peterborow from his Garden : His idea of the Golden Age , and unwilling- ness to come to town · XXXIX . From the Same . Desire to see Dr. Swift . Al ...
... town : The Charitable Corpora- tion . More concerning Women XXXVIII . From the Earl of Peterborow from his Garden : His idea of the Golden Age , and unwilling- ness to come to town · XXXIX . From the Same . Desire to see Dr. Swift . Al ...
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... ; One of the few passages he has ever quoted with approbation from Milton . and for enjoying the sweets of that life , which EDWARD BLOUNT , ESQ . 29 Of his manner of life in the country, and of the thor's near the town.
... ; One of the few passages he has ever quoted with approbation from Milton . and for enjoying the sweets of that life , which EDWARD BLOUNT , ESQ . 29 Of his manner of life in the country, and of the thor's near the town.
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... town serve only to put me in mind of better , and more quiet , to be had in a corner of the world ( undisturbed , inno- cent , serene , and sensible ) with such as you . Let no access of any distrust make you think of me differ- ently ...
... town serve only to put me in mind of better , and more quiet , to be had in a corner of the world ( undisturbed , inno- cent , serene , and sensible ) with such as you . Let no access of any distrust make you think of me differ- ently ...
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Términos y frases comunes
Adieu agreeable assure Atterbury beautiful believe BISHOP OF ROCHESTER Blount called charity Coleshill compliment concern Court Crux Easton dare Dean Swift dear Sir death desire Digby DOCTOR Arbuthnot Dutchess EDWARD BLOUNT entertain esteem expect fancy father fear friendship gardens give Gorboduc gout grotto happy hear heart heartily Homer honour hope humour Iliad kind Lady Scudamore late least leave less LETTER XII live London look Lord Bathurst's Lord Bolingbroke Lordship mankind manner Mary Digby melancholy ment Milton mind mother nature never obliged opinion Papist pleased pleasure poet Poetry Pope Pray reason rejoice remember ROBERT DIGBY sense servant Sherburne shew sincere spirit sure taste tell thank thing thither thought town truth Twickenham verse VIII Virgil Voltaire Whig whole Winchester College wish word writ write
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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.