The Works of Alexander Pope, Esq: In Nine Volumes Complete, with His Last Corrections, Additions, and Improvements, as They Were Delivered to the Editor a Little Before His Death, Together with the Commentary and Notes of Mr. Warburton, 7. köideA. Millar, J. and R. Tonson, C. Bathurst, R. Baldwin, W. Johnston, J. Richardson, B. Law, S. Crowder, T. Longman, T. Field, and T. Caslon, 1760 |
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... faults : Spots and blemishes , you know , are never fo plainly discovered as in the brightest funshine . Thus I am mortified by thofe com- mendations which were defigned to encourage me : for praise to a young wit , is like rain to a ...
... faults : Spots and blemishes , you know , are never fo plainly discovered as in the brightest funshine . Thus I am mortified by thofe com- mendations which were defigned to encourage me : for praise to a young wit , is like rain to a ...
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... faults , if not as a young man , at least as an unexperienced Writer . LETTER IV . I am , & c . From Mr. WY CHERLEY . March 29 , 1705 . OUR letter of the twenty - fifth of March I have received , which was more wel- You a His Paftorals ...
... faults , if not as a young man , at least as an unexperienced Writer . LETTER IV . I am , & c . From Mr. WY CHERLEY . March 29 , 1705 . OUR letter of the twenty - fifth of March I have received , which was more wel- You a His Paftorals ...
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... fault with it , but that it charges me with want of fincerity , or justice , for giving you your due ; who fhould not let your ... faults rather than your perfections ; but ( my friend ) that would be fo hard to do , that I , who love no ...
... fault with it , but that it charges me with want of fincerity , or justice , for giving you your due ; who fhould not let your ... faults rather than your perfections ; but ( my friend ) that would be fo hard to do , that I , who love no ...
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... faults , than the confirmation of his follies . If you would make those the subject of a letter , it might be as long as I could wish your letters always were . I do not wonder you have hitherto found fome difficulty I do FROM MR ...
... faults , than the confirmation of his follies . If you would make those the subject of a letter , it might be as long as I could wish your letters always were . I do not wonder you have hitherto found fome difficulty I do FROM MR ...
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... fault with the short- nefs of mine , which I think the beft excufe for it : And tho ' they ( as you fay ) who have most wit or money are moft fparing of either ; there are fome who appear poor to be thought rich , and are poor , which ...
... fault with the short- nefs of mine , which I think the beft excufe for it : And tho ' they ( as you fay ) who have most wit or money are moft fparing of either ; there are fome who appear poor to be thought rich , and are poor , which ...
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Page 252 - ... not very common to young men, that the attractions of the world have not dazzled me very much ; and I...
Page 339 - Lucretius to publish against Tonson's ; agreeing to pay the author so many shillings at his producing so many lines. He made a great progress in a very short time, and I gave it to the corrector to compare with the Latin; but he went directly to Creech's translation, and found it the same word for word, all but the first page. Now, what d'ye think I did ? I arrested the translator for a cheat ; nay, and I stopped the corrector's pay too, upon this proof that he had made use of Creech instead of the...
Page 337 - As Mr. Lintot was talking, I observed he sat uneasy on his saddle, for which I expressed some solicitude : Nothing, says he, I can bear it well enough ; but since we have the day before us, methinks it would be very pleasant for you to rest awhile under the woods.
Page 294 - ... 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.
Page 95 - 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.
Page 327 - The inhabitants of this delicious isle, as they are without riches and honours, so are they without the vices and follies that attend them ; and were they but as much strangers to revenge, as they are to avarice and ambition, they might in fact answer the poetical notions of ,the golden age.
Page 252 - ... an advantage not very common to young men, that the attractions of the world have not dazzled me very much...
Page 100 - Histories are more full of examples of the fidelity of dogs than of friends...
Page 255 - ... included of his belief in its immortality. The diminutive epithets of vagula, blandula...
Page 338 - 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.