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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Page vi
... least , from her poffeffion to the time of printing them , ' tis manifeft , that I had not the leaft ground to apprehend fuch a defign : but as people in great ftraits bring forth their hoards of old gold and most valued jewels ; fo ...
... least , from her poffeffion to the time of printing them , ' tis manifeft , that I had not the leaft ground to apprehend fuch a defign : but as people in great ftraits bring forth their hoards of old gold and most valued jewels ; fo ...
Page vii
... least have her Comfort , of being thanked by the rest of the world . Nor has Mr. P. himself any great cause to think it much offence to his modefty or reflection on his judgment , when we take care to inform the public , that there are ...
... least have her Comfort , of being thanked by the rest of the world . Nor has Mr. P. himself any great cause to think it much offence to his modefty or reflection on his judgment , when we take care to inform the public , that there are ...
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... least thought that ever the world should be witness to them . Had he fate down with a defign to draw his own picture , he could not have done it fo truly ; for whoever fits for it ( whe- ther to himself or another ) will inevitably find ...
... least thought that ever the world should be witness to them . Had he fate down with a defign to draw his own picture , he could not have done it fo truly ; for whoever fits for it ( whe- ther to himself or another ) will inevitably find ...
Page xvii
... least impertinent , to be divulged to the public : or of fuch entire Letters , as were either not his , or not approved of by him . He has been very fparing of those of his friends , and thought it a refpect shown to their memory , to ...
... least impertinent , to be divulged to the public : or of fuch entire Letters , as were either not his , or not approved of by him . He has been very fparing of those of his friends , and thought it a refpect shown to their memory , to ...
Page xx
... that , if the Laws have as yet provided no adequate remedy , one at least may be found , to prevent fo great and growing an evil . Contents Contents of the Seventh Volume . LETTERS to and from XX PREFACE . To Mr Jervas, of the fame.
... that , if the Laws have as yet provided no adequate remedy , one at least may be found , to prevent fo great and growing an evil . Contents Contents of the Seventh Volume . LETTERS to and from XX PREFACE . To Mr Jervas, of the fame.
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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.