The Works of Alexander Pope, Volumen 6Henry Lintot, 1737 |
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... faults : Spots and blemishes , you know , are never fo plainly discovered as in the brightest funfhine . Thus I am mortified by thofe commen- dations which were defigned to encourage me : for praise to a young wit , is like rain to a ...
... faults : Spots and blemishes , you know , are never fo plainly discovered as in the brightest funfhine . Thus I am mortified by thofe commen- dations which were defigned to encourage me : for praise to a young wit , is like rain to a ...
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... fault with it , but that it charges me with want of finceri . ty , or juftice , for giving you your due ; who should not let ... faults rather than your perfections ; but ( my friend ) that would be fo hard to do , that I who love no ...
... fault with it , but that it charges me with want of finceri . ty , or juftice , for giving you your due ; who should not let ... faults rather than your perfections ; but ( my friend ) that would be fo hard to do , that I who love no ...
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... faults , than the con- firmation of his follies . If you would make thofe the fubject of a letter , it might be as long as I could wish your letters always were . * Mr . Wycherley was at this time about seventy years old , Mr. Pope ...
... faults , than the con- firmation of his follies . If you would make thofe the fubject of a letter , it might be as long as I could wish your letters always were . * Mr . Wycherley was at this time about seventy years old , Mr. Pope ...
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... fault with the fhortness of mine , which I think the best excufe for it : And tho ' they ( as you fay ) who have moft wit or money are molt fparing of either ; there are fome who appear poor to be thought rich , and are poor , which is ...
... fault with the fhortness of mine , which I think the best excufe for it : And tho ' they ( as you fay ) who have moft wit or money are molt fparing of either ; there are fome who appear poor to be thought rich , and are poor , which is ...
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... fault with his faults , and mending them by your obliging feverity . I hope ( in point of your good nature ) you will have no cruel charity for those papers of mine , you are fo willing to be troubled with ; which I take moft infinitely ...
... fault with his faults , and mending them by your obliging feverity . I hope ( in point of your good nature ) you will have no cruel charity for those papers of mine , you are fo willing to be troubled with ; which I take moft infinitely ...
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Página 204 - 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 47 - People seek for what they call wit, on all subjects, and in all places ; not considering that nature loves truth so well, that it hardly ever admits of flourishing : Conceit is to nature what paint is to beauty ; it is not only needless, but impairs what it would improve.
Página 228 - Lordship may cause 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 53 - It is not enough that nothing offends the Ear, but a good Poet will adapt the very Sounds, as well as Words, to the things he treats of. So that there is (if one may express it so) a Style of Sound. As in describing a gliding Stream, the Numbers shou'd run easy and flowing; in describing a rough Torrent or Deluge, sonorous and swelling, and so of the rest.
Página 206 - I have an ambition of having it known that you are my friend, I shall be very proud of showing it by this, or any other instance. I question not but your Translation will enrich our tongue, and do honour to our country...
Página 195 - Plutarch just now told me, that 'tis in human life as in a game at tables, where a man may wish for the highest cast, but, if his chance be otherwise, he is e'en to play it as well as he can, and to make the best of it.
Página 73 - ... 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 141 - I paced on slowly, without company, or any interruption to the range of my thoughts. About a mile before I reached Oxford, all the bells...
Página 197 - The memory of man, (as it is elegantly exprefs'd in the Book of Wifdom) pafleth away as the remembrance of a gueft that tarrieth but one day. There are reafons enough, in the fourth chapter of the fame . book, to make any young man contented with the profpect of death.
Página 233 - Great Turk in poetry, who can never bear a brother on the throne ; and has his mutes too, a set of nodders, winkers, and whisperers, whose business is to strangle all other offsprings of wit in their birth.