The Works of Alexander Pope Esq, כרך 7J. and P. Knapton [and others], 1751 |
מתוך הספר
תוצאות 1-5 מתוך 19
עמוד 2
... less to . Mr. Dryden . I agree with you , that whatever leffer * When a very young Boy , he prevailed with a friend to carry him to a Coffee - houfe which Dryden frequented ; where he had the fatisfaction he speaks of . He fince did fo ...
... less to . Mr. Dryden . I agree with you , that whatever leffer * When a very young Boy , he prevailed with a friend to carry him to a Coffee - houfe which Dryden frequented ; where he had the fatisfaction he speaks of . He fince did fo ...
עמוד 4
... less just to you , the more I thought I could make a return to fo much profuseness of Wit and Humanity together ; which tho ' they feldom 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 fo much profuseness of Wit and Humanity together ; which tho ' they feldom accompany each other in other men , are in you fo equally met , I know not in which you moft ...
עמוד 19
... less than your own : fince if you fhould re- veal any thing of this nature , it would be no won- der reports fhould be rais'd , and there are those ( I fear ) who would be ready to improve them to my disadvantage . I am forry you told ...
... less than your own : fince if you fhould re- veal any thing of this nature , it would be no won- der reports fhould be rais'd , and there are those ( I fear ) who would be ready to improve them to my disadvantage . I am forry you told ...
עמוד 34
... ) I beg you to be fo kind to me , as to be fe- vere to them ; that the critics may be less fo ; for I had rather be condemn'd by my friend in private , than expos'd to my foes in public , the critics 5 than 34 LETTERS TO AND.
... ) I beg you to be fo kind to me , as to be fe- vere to them ; that the critics may be less fo ; for I had rather be condemn'd by my friend in private , than expos'd to my foes in public , the critics 5 than 34 LETTERS TO AND.
עמוד 43
... less right to correct me , than the fame hand that rais'd a tree has to prune it . I am convinced as well as you , that one may cor- rect too much ; for in poetry , as in painting , a man may lay colours one upon another , till they ...
... less right to correct me , than the fame hand that rais'd a tree has to prune it . I am convinced as well as you , that one may cor- rect too much ; for in poetry , as in painting , a man may lay colours one upon another , till they ...
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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...