The Works of Alexander Pope, Esq: In Nine Volumes, Complete. With Notes and Illustrations by Joseph Warton, D.D. and Others, Volumen8B. Law, J. Johnson, C. Dilly [and others], 1797 |
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... whose resolution in pursuit of a generous end , you would rather imitate than boast of . But I had a melancholy hint the other day , as if you were yet a martyr to the fatigue your virtue made you undergo on this fide the water . I beg ...
... whose resolution in pursuit of a generous end , you would rather imitate than boast of . But I had a melancholy hint the other day , as if you were yet a martyr to the fatigue your virtue made you undergo on this fide the water . I beg ...
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... whose piety and goodness of heart , he used to relate many inftances . Gorboduc was the firft drama in our language that was like a regular tragedy . It was first exhibited in the Hall of the Temple , and afterwards before Q. Elizabeth ...
... whose piety and goodness of heart , he used to relate many inftances . Gorboduc was the firft drama in our language that was like a regular tragedy . It was first exhibited in the Hall of the Temple , and afterwards before Q. Elizabeth ...
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... whose short Efchantillon of a letter ( of a quarter of a page ) I value as the short glimpse of a vision afforded to fome devout hermit ; for it includes ( as those revelations do ) a promise of a better life in the Elyfian groves of ...
... whose short Efchantillon of a letter ( of a quarter of a page ) I value as the short glimpse of a vision afforded to fome devout hermit ; for it includes ( as those revelations do ) a promise of a better life in the Elyfian groves of ...
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... whose bourn No traveller returns ! A fever carried me on the high gallop towards it for fix or feven days - But here you have me now , and that is all I fhall fay of it : fince which time an impertinent lameness kept me at home twice as ...
... whose bourn No traveller returns ! A fever carried me on the high gallop towards it for fix or feven days - But here you have me now , and that is all I fhall fay of it : fince which time an impertinent lameness kept me at home twice as ...
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... whose works , are above an hundred Letters to this M. Thiriot , who was allowed to dine with Voltaire every day , during his imprisonment in the Baftile , for fix months , 1725 : just before Voltaire came to England , where he was fo ...
... whose works , are above an hundred Letters to this M. Thiriot , who was allowed to dine with Voltaire every day , during his imprisonment in the Baftile , for fix months , 1725 : just before Voltaire came to England , where he was fo ...
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Adieu affure againſt almoſt anſwer becauſe beſt Biſhop BISHOP OF ROCHESTER buſineſs cauſe circumſtances converfation Court Dear Sir deferves defire Duchefs elſe eſteem fafe faid fame fatire fatisfaction feems feen fend fenfe fent fervant fhall fhew fhould fince fincere firſt fome fomething foon forry fpirit friendſhip ftill fubject fuch fuffer fure give Gorboduc greateſt happineſs heart himſelf Homer honeft honour hope houſe itſelf juft juſt Lady laft laſt leaſt lefs leſs LETTER live Lord Lord Bathurst Lord Bolingbroke mind moft moſt muſt myſelf never obferve obliged occafion paffed perfon pleaſed pleaſure Pope praiſe Pray prefent preferve promiſe publiſhed raiſe reaſon refpect ſay ſcene ſee ſeems ſhall ſhe ſome ſtate ſtill ſuch taſte tell theſe thing thofe thoſe thought town tranflation Twickenham uſe verſes whofe wifh wiſh worſe writ write yourſelf
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Página 360 - The labourers, all solicitous for each other's safety, called to one another : those that were nearest our lovers, hearing no answer, stepped to the place where they lay : they first saw a little smoke, and after, this faithful pair ; — John, with one arm about his Sarah's neck, and the other held over her face, as if to screen her from the lightning. They were struck dead, and already grown stiff and cold in this tender posture. There was no mark or discolouring on their bodies, only that Sarah's...
Página 119 - I knew you, and shall not fail to do it when I am not allowed to tell you so, as the case will soon be.
Página 359 - Their love was the talk, but not the scandal of the whole neighbourhood ; for all they aimed at was the blameless possession of each other in marriage. It was but this very morning that he had obtained her parents' consent, and it was but till the next week that they were to wait to be happy.
Página 34 - The bottom is paved with simple pebble, as is also the adjoining walk up the wilderness to the temple, in the natural taste, agreeing not ill with the little dripping murmur, and the aquatic idea of the whole place.
Página 81 - I have a due sense of the excellence of the British constitution. In a word, the things I have always wished to see, are, not a Roman Catholic, or a French Catholic, or a Spanish Catholic, but a true Catholic; and not a King of Whigs, or a King of Tories, but a King of England ; which God of his mercy grant his present Majesty may be, and all future majesties.
Página 359 - It was but this very morning that he had obtained her parents' consent, and it was but till the next week that they were to wait to be happy. Perhaps this very day, in the intervals of their work, they were talking of...
Página 300 - Letcomb, where the Dean makes a great part of my imaginary entertainment, this being the cheapest way of treating me ; I hope he will not be displeased at this...
Página 128 - Christian all. You may now begin to think your manhood was too much a puerility ; and you will never suffer your age to be but a second infancy.
Página 146 - ... went. We are now at the Bath, where (if you are not, as I heartily hope, better engaged) your coming would be the greatest pleasure to us in the world.
Página 388 - Over the parlour window hangs a sloping balcony, which time has turned to a very convenient penthouse. The top is crowned with a very venerable tower, so like that of the church just by, that the jackdaws build in it as if it were the true steeple.