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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... myself plunged into unforeseen and unavoidable ruin , I retreated from the world , and in a manner buried my- self in a difmal place , where I knew none , and none knew me . In this dull unthinking way , I have protracted a lingering ...
... myself plunged into unforeseen and unavoidable ruin , I retreated from the world , and in a manner buried my- self in a difmal place , where I knew none , and none knew me . In this dull unthinking way , I have protracted a lingering ...
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... by them . I flatter myself , in a few months I shall again be visible to the world ; and whenever thro ' good providence that turn fhall happen , I shall a 2 I fhall joyfully acquaint you with it , there being SURREPTITIOUS EDITION .
... by them . I flatter myself , in a few months I shall again be visible to the world ; and whenever thro ' good providence that turn fhall happen , I shall a 2 I fhall joyfully acquaint you with it , there being SURREPTITIOUS EDITION .
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... myself quite below their notice . For critics , as they are birds of prey , have ever a natural in- clination to carrion : and tho ' fuch poor writers poor but he as I are but beggars , no beggar is fo can keep a cur , and no author fo ...
... myself quite below their notice . For critics , as they are birds of prey , have ever a natural in- clination to carrion : and tho ' fuch poor writers poor but he as I are but beggars , no beggar is fo can keep a cur , and no author fo ...
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... myself ) I must no more offend , than I can do either right . Therefore I will fay no more now of them , than that your good wit never forfeited your good judgment , but in your partiality to me and mine ; fo that if it were poffible ...
... myself ) I must no more offend , than I can do either right . Therefore I will fay no more now of them , than that your good wit never forfeited your good judgment , but in your partiality to me and mine ; fo that if it were poffible ...
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... he will not epifcopate ; but I must confefs , whilft I displease you by commending you , I please myself ; just as incenfe is fweeter to the offerer than than the deity to whom ' tis offered , by FROM MR . WYCHERLEY . 11.
... he will not epifcopate ; but I must confefs , whilft I displease you by commending you , I please myself ; just as incenfe is fweeter to the offerer than than the deity to whom ' tis offered , by FROM MR . WYCHERLEY . 11.
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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.