The Works of Alexander Pope: Esq. with Notes and Illustrations by Himself and Others. To which are Added, a New Life of the Author, an Estimate of His Poetical Character and Writings, and Occasional Remarks, Volume 10J. Rivington, 1824 - English literature |
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... learned to bear with , ) and such I cannot be commonly civil to ; for I think those men are next to knaves who converse with them . The greatest man in power of this sort shall hardly make me bow to him , unless I had a personal ...
... learned to bear with , ) and such I cannot be commonly civil to ; for I think those men are next to knaves who converse with them . The greatest man in power of this sort shall hardly make me bow to him , unless I had a personal ...
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... learned to be content , with returning to his first point , without the thought or ambition of shining at all . Here is another , who thinks one of the greatest glories of his father was to have distinguished and loved you , and who ...
... learned to be content , with returning to his first point , without the thought or ambition of shining at all . Here is another , who thinks one of the greatest glories of his father was to have distinguished and loved you , and who ...
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... learned authors , flat- tering each other , and setting the rest of mankind at nought ; but in a free , unimportant , natural , easy manner , diverting others just as we diverted ourselves . The third volume consists of Verses , but I ...
... learned authors , flat- tering each other , and setting the rest of mankind at nought ; but in a free , unimportant , natural , easy manner , diverting others just as we diverted ourselves . The third volume consists of Verses , but I ...
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... learned this by living like a hermit , by which I am got backwards about nineteen hundred years in the era of the world , and begin to wonder at the wickedness of men . I dine alone upon half a dish of meat , mix water with my wine ...
... learned this by living like a hermit , by which I am got backwards about nineteen hundred years in the era of the world , and begin to wonder at the wickedness of men . I dine alone upon half a dish of meat , mix water with my wine ...
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... learned man's life ; I call him what he is , a learned man , and I and I engage you will approve his prose more than you formerly could his poetry . Lord Bolingbroke is a favourer of it , and allows you to do your best to serve an old ...
... learned man's life ; I call him what he is , a learned man , and I and I engage you will approve his prose more than you formerly could his poetry . Lord Bolingbroke is a favourer of it , and allows you to do your best to serve an old ...
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Page 17 - Westward the course of empire takes its way; The four first acts already past, A fifth shall close the drama with the day : Time's noblest offspring is the last.
Page 524 - ... you have made my system as clear as I ought to have done, and could not. It is indeed the same system as mine, but illustrated with a ray of your own, as they say our natural body is the same still when it is glorified. I am sure I like it better than I did before, and so will every man else. I know I meant just what you explain ; but I did not explain my own meaning so well as you. You understand me as well as I do myself; .but you express me better than I could express myself.
Page 235 - I will further tell you, that all my endeavours, from a boy, to distinguish myself, were only for want of a great title and fortune, that I might be used like a Lord by those who have an opinion of my parts — whether right or wrong, it is no great matter, and so the reputation of wit or great learning does the office of a blue ribbon, or of a coach and six horses.
Page 182 - If we have sown unto you spiritual things, is it a great thing if we shall reap your carnal things?
Page 266 - Fenton, before y" came ; but stay'd to have inform'd myself & you of ye circumstances of it. All I hear is, that he felt a Gradual Decay, tho' so early in Life, & was declining for 5 or 6 months. It was not, as I apprehended, the Gout in his Stomach, but I believe rather a Complication first of Gross...
Page 130 - I like the scheme of our meeting after distresses and dispersions ; but the chief end I propose to myself in all my labors is to vex the world rather than divert it ; and if I could compass that design without hurting my own person or fortune, I would be the most indefatigable writer you have ever seen, without reading.
Page 94 - As to what is called a revolution principle, my opinion was this ; that whenever those evils which usually attend and follow a violent change of government, were not in probability so pernicious as the grievance we suffer under a present power, then the publick good will justify such a revolution...
Page 255 - ... writer, as either my experience grew on the one hand, or my affection to my correspondents on the other. Now as I love you better than most I have ever met with in the world, and esteem you too the more the longer I have...
Page 290 - God knows, she is extremely weak : the slow fever works under, and mines the constitution ; we keep it off sometimes, but still it returns, and makes new breaches before nature can repair the old ones. I am not ashamed to say to you, that I admire her more every hour of my life : death is not to her the King of Terrors ; she beholds him without the least. When she suffers much, she wishes for him as a deliverer from pain ; when life is tolerable, she looks on him with dislike, because he is to separate...
Page 232 - I remember when I was a little boy I felt a great fish at the end of my line which I drew up almost on the ground, but it dropped in, and the disappointment vexes me to this very day, and I believe \ it was the type of all my future disappointments.