The Works of Alexander Pope Esq, כרך 7J. and P. Knapton [and others], 1751 |
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תוצאות 1-5 מתוך 20
עמוד 18
... speak too much to the present . This is a truth that all men own who have either feen your writings , or heard your difcourfe ; enough to make others fhow their judgment , in ceafing to write or talk , especially to you , or in your ...
... speak too much to the present . This is a truth that all men own who have either feen your writings , or heard your difcourfe ; enough to make others fhow their judgment , in ceafing to write or talk , especially to you , or in your ...
עמוד 31
... speak well of you whether they will or no : All this is true upon the word of Your , & c . LETTER XXI . From Mr. WY CHERLEY . Aug. 11 , 1709 . M Y letters , fo much inferior to yours , can only make up their scarcity of fenfe by their ...
... speak well of you whether they will or no : All this is true upon the word of Your , & c . LETTER XXI . From Mr. WY CHERLEY . Aug. 11 , 1709 . M Y letters , fo much inferior to yours , can only make up their scarcity of fenfe by their ...
עמוד 59
... speak nonsense , than to do it in my own proper perfon . For your * This was a translation of the first book of Statius , done when the author was but fourteen years old , as ap- pears by an advertisement before the first edition of it ...
... speak nonsense , than to do it in my own proper perfon . For your * This was a translation of the first book of Statius , done when the author was but fourteen years old , as ap- pears by an advertisement before the first edition of it ...
עמוד 70
... speaking well of me in my abfence ; the only thing by which you prove yourself no wit nor critic : tho ' indeed have often thought , that a friend will show just as much indulgence ( and no more ) to my faults when I am abfent , as he ...
... speaking well of me in my abfence ; the only thing by which you prove yourself no wit nor critic : tho ' indeed have often thought , that a friend will show just as much indulgence ( and no more ) to my faults when I am abfent , as he ...
עמוד 77
... speak against him who has given fo many men to eat ? ( meaning the Rhapfodifts who liv'd by repeating his verses ) thus may it be faid of Mr. Durfey to his detractors ; Dares any one defpife him , who has made fo many men drink ? Alas ...
... speak against him who has given fo many men to eat ? ( meaning the Rhapfodifts who liv'd by repeating his verses ) thus may it be faid of Mr. Durfey to his detractors ; Dares any one defpife him , who has made fo many men drink ? Alas ...
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מונחים וביטויים נפוצים
Æneid affure againſt almoft anſwer becauſe befides beft believe beſt cauſe converfation Correfpondence critics defign defire eſteem expreffion fafely faid fame fatire fatisfaction favour feems felf fend fenfe fent ferve feven fhall fhew fhort fhould fhow fince fincerity firft firſt fome fomething fometimes foon friendſhip ftill fubject fuch fure give happineſs himſelf Homer hope juft juſt kindneſs lady laft laſt leaft leaſt lefs leſs LETTER Mifcellanies moft moſt muft muſt myſelf never obferve obliged occafion opinion Ovid paftoral perfon pleas'd pleaſe pleaſure poem Poet poetry Pope praiſe Pray prefent Priam printed profe publiſhed reafon receiv'd reft Sappho ſay ſee ſeems ſeveral ſhall ſhe ſome ſpeak Statius tell thefe themſelves theſe thing thofe thoſe thought thouſand tranflation uſe verfes verſes Virgil whofe whoſe wifh WILLIAM TRUMBULL wiſh write Wycherley yourſelf
קטעים בולטים
עמוד 69 - 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 190 - 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?
עמוד 190 - The Dying Christian to his Soul: Ode Vital spark of heav'nly flame! Quit, oh quit this mortal frame: Trembling, hoping, ling'ring, flying. Oh the pain, the bliss of dying! Cease, fond Nature, cease thy strife, And let me languish into life. Hark! they whisper; Angels say. Sister spirit, come away.
עמוד 189 - I should myself be much better pleased, if I were told you called me your little friend, than if you complimented me with the title of a great genius, or an eminent hand, as Jacob does all his authors.
עמוד 244 - Don't you design to let him pass a year at Oxford ? "To what purpose? (said he) the Universities do but make Pedants, and I intend to breed him a man of business.
עמוד 244 - Now damn them ! what if they should put it into the newspaper, how you and I went together to Oxford ? what would I care? If I should go down into Sussex, they would say I was gone to the Speaker. But what of that ? If my son were but big enough to go on with the business, by G — d I would keep as good company as old Jacob.
עמוד 214 - ... 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 236 - ... to one of the few, who (in any age) have come up to that character. I am...
עמוד 132 - Shakespear has it) to dinner, with what appetite they may and after that, till midnight, walk, work, or think, which they please.
עמוד 184 - ... not very common to young men, that the attractions of the world have not dazzled me very much ; and I...