The Works of Alexander Pope, Esq: In Verse and Prose, Volumen 7J. Johnson, 1806 |
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... mind . I could not make protestations of my innocence of a grievous crime ; but I was impatient till I came to town , that I might fend you thofe Letters , as a clear evidence that I was a perfect stranger to all their proceeding ...
... mind . I could not make protestations of my innocence of a grievous crime ; but I was impatient till I came to town , that I might fend you thofe Letters , as a clear evidence that I was a perfect stranger to all their proceeding ...
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... mind friving to be great , and affecting to be unaffected ; in the other , we contemplate , not the Studious loftinefs , but the playfulness of a mind naturally lofty , throw- ing at random a ray of fweetnefs , cheerfulness , and ...
... mind friving to be great , and affecting to be unaffected ; in the other , we contemplate , not the Studious loftinefs , but the playfulness of a mind naturally lofty , throw- ing at random a ray of fweetnefs , cheerfulness , and ...
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... mind , in its acquaintance with polished life ; the delights it enjoyed , the vexations it endured , the infirmities it contracted , and the virtues it exerted , in a long career of memorable enmities , and of friendships more worthy of ...
... mind , in its acquaintance with polished life ; the delights it enjoyed , the vexations it endured , the infirmities it contracted , and the virtues it exerted , in a long career of memorable enmities , and of friendships more worthy of ...
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... mind of beftowing another . The more favourable you are to me , the more diftinctly I fee my faults : Spots and blemishes , you know , are never fo plainly discovered as in the brightest sunshine . Thus I am mortified by thofe ...
... mind of beftowing another . The more favourable you are to me , the more diftinctly I fee my faults : Spots and blemishes , you know , are never fo plainly discovered as in the brightest sunshine . Thus I am mortified by thofe ...
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... mind , that you muft pardon me if I cannot forbear telling you a few notions of mine in oppofition to that opinion . In the first place ' tis obfervable , that the love we bear to our friends , is generally caufed by our find- ing the ...
... mind , that you muft pardon me if I cannot forbear telling you a few notions of mine in oppofition to that opinion . In the first place ' tis obfervable , that the love we bear to our friends , is generally caufed by our find- ing the ...
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Página 101 - HAPPY the man whose wish and care A few paternal acres bound, Content to breathe his native air, In his own ground ; Whose herds with milk, whose fields with bread, Whose flocks supply him with attire ; Whose trees in Summer yield him shade, In Winter fire.
Página 357 - Inarime is an epitome of the whole earth, containing within the compass of eighteen miles, a wonderful variety of hills, vales, ragged rocks, fruitful plains, and barren mountains, all thrown together in a most romantic confusion.
Página 41 - Arcades, invidia rumpantur ut ilia Codro ; aut, si ultra placitum laudarit, baccare frontem cingite, ne vati noceat mala lingua futuro.
Página 62 - 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 368 - So in short, I borrowed this stonehorse of my Publisher, which he had of Mr. Oldmixon for a debt; he lent me too the pretty boy you...
Página 279 - I never had any esteem for, are likely to enjoy this world after me. When I reflect what an...
Página 70 - 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 108 - Histories are more full of examples of the fidelity of dogs than of friends...
Página 371 - I have known one of them take down a Greek book upon my counter, and cry, Ah, this is Hebrew, I must read it from the latter end.
Página 200 - Westphalia ham in a morning, ride over hedges and ditches on borrowed hacks, come home in the heat of the day with a fever, and (what...