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 46
עמוד xix
... once expofed and plundered . As an Au- thor , you are deprived of that Power , which above all others conftitutes a good one , the power of rejecting , and the right of judging for yourself , what pieces it may be most useful ...
... once expofed and plundered . As an Au- thor , you are deprived of that Power , which above all others conftitutes a good one , the power of rejecting , and the right of judging for yourself , what pieces it may be most useful ...
עמוד 13
... once to wave all your compli- ments , and to collect only this in general from them , that your defign is to encourage me . But I feparate from all the reft that paragraph or two , in which you make me fo warm an offer of your ...
... once to wave all your compli- ments , and to collect only this in general from them , that your defign is to encourage me . But I feparate from all the reft that paragraph or two , in which you make me fo warm an offer of your ...
עמוד 17
... once irrecoverably be - mus'd , the best way both to quiet them , and fecure yourself from the effects of their frenzy , is to feed their vanity ; which indeed , for the moft part , is all that is fed in a poet . You may believe me , I ...
... once irrecoverably be - mus'd , the best way both to quiet them , and fecure yourself from the effects of their frenzy , is to feed their vanity ; which indeed , for the moft part , is all that is fed in a poet . You may believe me , I ...
עמוד 22
... once a poet and a physician . 24 1 A ་ Now , Sir , as to my impudent invitation of you to the town , your good nature was the first cause of my confident request ; but excuse me , I must ( I see ) fay no more upon this subject , fince I ...
... once a poet and a physician . 24 1 A ་ Now , Sir , as to my impudent invitation of you to the town , your good nature was the first cause of my confident request ; but excuse me , I must ( I see ) fay no more upon this subject , fince I ...
עמוד 26
... once pleas'd and inftructed me ; so that I affure you , you can no more write too much to your abfent friends , than speak too much to the prefent . This is a truth that all men own , who have either feen your writings , or heard your ...
... once pleas'd and inftructed me ; so that I affure you , you can no more write too much to your abfent friends , than speak too much to the prefent . This is a truth that all men own , who have either feen your writings , or heard your ...
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.