The Works of Alexander Pope, Esq: In Nine Volumes Complete, with His Last Corrections, Additions, and Improvements, as They Were Delivered to the Editor a Little Before His Death, Together with the Commentary and Notes of Mr. Warburton, כרך 7A. Millar, J. and R. Tonson, C. Bathurst, R. Baldwin, W. Johnston, J. Richardson, B. Law, S. Crowder, T. Longman, T. Field, and T. Caslon, 1760 |
מתוך הספר
תוצאות 1-5 מתוך 30
עמוד 5
... less to Mr. Dry- den . I agree with you that whatever leffer Wits have rifen fince his death , are but like ftars appearing when the fun is fet , that twinkle only in his abfence , and with the rays they have borrowed from him . Our wit ...
... less to Mr. Dry- den . I agree with you that whatever leffer Wits have rifen fince his death , are but like ftars appearing when the fun is fet , that twinkle only in his abfence , and with the rays they have borrowed from him . Our wit ...
עמוד 6
... , just as companions , yet under the dif- they pleafed , for the Writer ferent names of wit and hu- was gone in fearch of Witti- manity they feldom accompany | cifms . be be less just to you , the more I thought 6 LETTERS TO AND.
... , just as companions , yet under the dif- they pleafed , for the Writer ferent names of wit and hu- was gone in fearch of Witti- manity they feldom accompany | cifms . be be less just to you , the more I thought 6 LETTERS TO AND.
עמוד 7
... less just to you , the more I thought I could make a return to so much profuseness of Wit and Humanity together ; which , tho ' they fel- dom accompany each other in other men , are in you fo equally met , I know not in which you moft ...
... less just to you , the more I thought I could make a return to so much profuseness of Wit and Humanity together ; which , tho ' they fel- dom accompany each other in other men , are in you fo equally met , I know not in which you moft ...
עמוד 11
... less tedious and more entertaining . Therefore let but your friendship be like your letter , as lasting as it is agreeable , and it can never be tedious , but more acceptable and obliging to Your , & c . I LETTER V. From Mr. WY CHERLEY ...
... less tedious and more entertaining . Therefore let but your friendship be like your letter , as lasting as it is agreeable , and it can never be tedious , but more acceptable and obliging to Your , & c . I LETTER V. From Mr. WY CHERLEY ...
עמוד 14
... less ac- quainted with the ways of the world , has in all probability lefs of intereft ; and an old man , who may be weary of himself , has , or should have less of self - love ; fo the friendship between them is the more likely to be ...
... less ac- quainted with the ways of the world , has in all probability lefs of intereft ; and an old man , who may be weary of himself , has , or should have less of self - love ; fo the friendship between them is the more likely to be ...
מונחים וביטויים נפוצים
affure againſt anſwer becauſe Befides beft believe beſt buſineſs cauſe CHERLEY converſation defign defire Dulneſs eſpecially eſteem expreffion fafely faid fame fatisfaction fave favour feems feen fenfe fent ferve fhall fhew fince fincerity firft firſt fome fomething fometimes foon friendſhip fubject fuch fure give greateſt happineſs himſelf hope houſe judgment juft juſt kindneſs lady laft laſt leaft leaſt lefs leſs LETTER mifcellanies moft moſt muft Muſes muſt myſelf never obferve obliged occafion opinion Ovid Paftorals perfon pleas'd pleaſe pleaſure poem poet poetry poffible Pope praiſe Pray preſent Priam printed publiſhed Quintilian reaſon receiv'd reft ſay ſee ſeems ſenſe ſeverity ſhall ſhe ſhort ſhould ſome ſpeak Statius ſuch tell thefe themſelves theſe thing thofe thoſe thought thouſand tranflation unleſs uſe verfes verſes whoſe WILLIAM TRUMBULL wiſh word write Wycherley yourſelf
קטעים בולטים
עמוד 252 - ... not very common to young men, that the attractions of the world have not dazzled me very much ; and I...
עמוד 339 - Lucretius to publish against Tonson's ; agreeing to pay the author so many shillings at his producing so many lines. He made a great progress in a very short time, and I gave it to the corrector to compare with the Latin; but he went directly to Creech's translation, and found it the same word for word, all but the first page. Now, what d'ye think I did ? I arrested the translator for a cheat ; nay, and I stopped the corrector's pay too, upon this proof that he had made use of Creech instead of the...
עמוד 337 - As Mr. Lintot was talking, I observed he sat uneasy on his saddle, for which I expressed some solicitude : Nothing, says he, I can bear it well enough ; but since we have the day before us, methinks it would be very pleasant for you to rest awhile under the woods.
עמוד 294 - ... 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.
עמוד 95 - 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.
עמוד 327 - The inhabitants of this delicious isle, as they are without riches and honours, so are they without the vices and follies that attend them ; and were they but as much strangers to revenge, as they are to avarice and ambition, they might in fact answer the poetical notions of ,the golden age.
עמוד 252 - ... an advantage not very common to young men, that the attractions of the world have not dazzled me very much...
עמוד 100 - Histories are more full of examples of the fidelity of dogs than of friends...
עמוד 255 - ... included of his belief in its immortality. The diminutive epithets of vagula, blandula...
עמוד 338 - 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.