The Works of Alexander Pope, Volumen 6Henry Lintot, 1737 |
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... whom , and at what age , he was guilty of it , as well as how soon it was over . The reft , every judge of writing will fee , were by no means Efforts of the Genius , but but Emanations of the Heart : and this alone may PREFACE .
... whom , and at what age , he was guilty of it , as well as how soon it was over . The reft , every judge of writing will fee , were by no means Efforts of the Genius , but but Emanations of the Heart : and this alone may PREFACE .
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... , we had not the means to fupply them , the Author having destroy'd too many letters to preserve any Series . Nor would he go about to amend them , except by the omiffion of fome passages , im- proper except PREFACE .
... , we had not the means to fupply them , the Author having destroy'd too many letters to preserve any Series . Nor would he go about to amend them , except by the omiffion of fome passages , im- proper except PREFACE .
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... mean time should confider , when you have obliged me beyond my present power of returning the fa- vour , that a debtor may be an honeft man , if he but intends to be juft when he is able , tho ' late . But I fhould be lefs juft to you ...
... mean time should confider , when you have obliged me beyond my present power of returning the fa- vour , that a debtor may be an honeft man , if he but intends to be juft when he is able , tho ' late . But I fhould be lefs juft to you ...
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... mean as I received any letters from you . Tis eertain , the greateft magnifying glaffes in the world are a man's own eyes when they look upon his own person ; yet even in thofe , I cannot fancy my felf fo extremely like Alexander the ...
... mean as I received any letters from you . Tis eertain , the greateft magnifying glaffes in the world are a man's own eyes when they look upon his own person ; yet even in thofe , I cannot fancy my felf fo extremely like Alexander the ...
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... mean the play - houses , are going to act tragedies on one another without doors , and the Sovereign is put to it ( as it often happens in the other two houses ) to filence one or both , to keep peace between them . Now I have told you ...
... mean the play - houses , are going to act tragedies on one another without doors , and the Sovereign is put to it ( as it often happens in the other two houses ) to filence one or both , to keep peace between them . Now I have told you ...
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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.