The Works of Alexander Pope, Esq. ...: LettersJ. and P. Knapton, 1751 |
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תוצאות 1-5 מתוך 11
עמוד 21
... the Weights of a Clock were at length put into the first book of the Dunciad . And thus we have the hiftory of their birth , fortunes , and final establishment . C 3 like like all the rest of yours , did at once FROM MR . WYCHERLEY . 21.
... the Weights of a Clock were at length put into the first book of the Dunciad . And thus we have the hiftory of their birth , fortunes , and final establishment . C 3 like like all the rest of yours , did at once FROM MR . WYCHERLEY . 21.
עמוד 22
Alexander Pope. like all the rest of yours , did at once mortify me , and make me vain ; fince it tells me with so much more wit , sense , and kindness than mine can ex- prefs , that my letters are always welcome to you . So that even ...
Alexander Pope. like all the rest of yours , did at once mortify me , and make me vain ; fince it tells me with so much more wit , sense , and kindness than mine can ex- prefs , that my letters are always welcome to you . So that even ...
עמוד 47
... rest is quite different from it , a poem makes a very foolish figure : But when ' tis all melted down together , and the Gold of the Ancients fo mix'd with that of the Moderns , that none can dif- tinguish the one from the other , I can ...
... rest is quite different from it , a poem makes a very foolish figure : But when ' tis all melted down together , and the Gold of the Ancients fo mix'd with that of the Moderns , that none can dif- tinguish the one from the other , I can ...
עמוד 73
... rest of it . My concern for his friendship will excufe me ( fince I know you honour him fo much , and fince you know I love him above all men ) if I vent a part of my uneafinefs to you , and tell you , that there has not been wanting ...
... rest of it . My concern for his friendship will excufe me ( fince I know you honour him fo much , and fince you know I love him above all men ) if I vent a part of my uneafinefs to you , and tell you , that there has not been wanting ...
עמוד 88
... rest of my re- marks , fince you do not laugh at them as at this , I can be fo civil as not to lay any ftress upon them ( as , I think , I told you before ) and in particular in the point of trees enjoying , you have , I must own ...
... rest of my re- marks , fince you do not laugh at them as at this , I can be fo civil as not to lay any ftress upon them ( as , I think , I told you before ) and in particular in the point of trees enjoying , you have , I must own ...
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עמוד 70 - ... shade. In winter fire. Blest, who can unconcern'dly find Hours, days, and years slide soft away. In health of body, peace of mind, Quiet by day. Sound sleep by night; study and ease, Together mixt; sweet recreation: And innocence, which most does please With meditation.
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 245 - Pray, Mr. Lintot, (said I,) now you talk of Translators, what is your method of managing them? "Sir, (replied he,) those are the saddest pack of rogues in the world : in a hungry fit they'll swear they understand all the languages in the universe : 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.
עמוד 185 - I confess, I cannot apprehend where lies the trifling in all this : it is the most natural and obvious reflection imaginable to a dying man : and, if we...
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 184 - I never had any esteem for, are likely to enjoy this world after me. When I reflect what an...
עמוד 182 - ... putrify, and are good for nothing, and running violently on, do but the more mischief in their passage to others, and are swallowed up and lost the sooner themselves.
עמוד 236 - 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.
עמוד 132 - L. walked with me three or four hours by moonlight, and we met no creature of any quality but the King, who gave audience to the vicechamberlain all alone under the garden wall.