The Works of Alexander Pope Esq: In Nine Volumes Complete. With His Last Corrections, Additions, and Improvements; ... Together with the Commentary and Notes of Mr. Warbuton, 9. köideJ. and P. Knapton, H. Lintot, J. and R. Tonson and S. Draper, and C. Bathurst, 1752 |
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Page 12
... fortune , or fuccefs as a Poet , I en- quired your principles in the common form , " Is he Whig or a Tory ? " I am sorry to find they are not fo well tallied to the present jun- cture as I could wish . I always thought the terms of ...
... fortune , or fuccefs as a Poet , I en- quired your principles in the common form , " Is he Whig or a Tory ? " I am sorry to find they are not fo well tallied to the present jun- cture as I could wish . I always thought the terms of ...
Page 34
... fortune hath condemned me , and stupidity was what I had recourfe to . Befides , what a figure fhould I make in London , while my friends . are in poverty , exile , diftrefs , or imprisonment , and my enemies with rods of iron ? Yet I ...
... fortune hath condemned me , and stupidity was what I had recourfe to . Befides , what a figure fhould I make in London , while my friends . are in poverty , exile , diftrefs , or imprisonment , and my enemies with rods of iron ? Yet I ...
Page 42
... you ap- pear to have no curiofity ) was it not to try how far the contrast between Pope's fortune and manner of life , and mine , may be carried . I have I I have been , then , infinitely more uniform and 42 LETTERS TO AND.
... you ap- pear to have no curiofity ) was it not to try how far the contrast between Pope's fortune and manner of life , and mine , may be carried . I have I I have been , then , infinitely more uniform and 42 LETTERS TO AND.
Page 47
... it , nor have gone through either good or bad fortune enough to go into a corner , and form conclu- fions de contemptu mundi & fuga fæculi , unless a Poet vich a Poet grows weary of too much applause , as FROM DR . SWIFT , etc. 47.
... it , nor have gone through either good or bad fortune enough to go into a corner , and form conclu- fions de contemptu mundi & fuga fæculi , unless a Poet vich a Poet grows weary of too much applause , as FROM DR . SWIFT , etc. 47.
Page 53
... fortune , I would be the most indefatigable writer you have ever feen , without reading . I am exceedingly pleased that you have done with Translations ; Lord Treasurer Oxford often lamented that a a Gulliver's Travels . E 3 rafcally ...
... fortune , I would be the most indefatigable writer you have ever feen , without reading . I am exceedingly pleased that you have done with Translations ; Lord Treasurer Oxford often lamented that a a Gulliver's Travels . E 3 rafcally ...
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