The works of Alexander Pope, with notes and illustrations, by himself and others. To which are added, a new life of the author [&c.] by W. Roscoe, 7. köide1847 |
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... faithful servants to them in your stead . But if Mr. Harte were not as virtuous and as blame- less , as he is capable and learned , I should recommend him with an ill grace to one whose morals only have hindered his fortune , and whose ...
... faithful servants to them in your stead . But if Mr. Harte were not as virtuous and as blame- less , as he is capable and learned , I should recommend him with an ill grace to one whose morals only have hindered his fortune , and whose ...
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... faithfully copied from the originals , communicated to the editor by the Lord Bishop of St. David's 1 . " Of these the Letter No. V. is the same ( with some variations in the reading ) as the No. X. of Warburton , although both are ...
... faithfully copied from the originals , communicated to the editor by the Lord Bishop of St. David's 1 . " Of these the Letter No. V. is the same ( with some variations in the reading ) as the No. X. of Warburton , although both are ...
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... faithful obedient humble servant , A. POPE . Original Sketch of the preceding Letter , as published in Bowles's Edition of the Works of Pope . I CAN say little to recommend the letters I shall write to you , but that they will be the ...
... faithful obedient humble servant , A. POPE . Original Sketch of the preceding Letter , as published in Bowles's Edition of the Works of Pope . I CAN say little to recommend the letters I shall write to you , but that they will be the ...
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... faithful servant , but am angry at the weakness of all the terms I can use to express myself , Yours . LETTER XI . FROM LADY MARY WORTLEY MONTAGU . Vienna , October 10 , 1716 . If I DESERVE not all the reproaches you make me . I have ...
... faithful servant , but am angry at the weakness of all the terms I can use to express myself , Yours . LETTER XI . FROM LADY MARY WORTLEY MONTAGU . Vienna , October 10 , 1716 . If I DESERVE not all the reproaches you make me . I have ...
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... faithful copy of the verses that Ibrahim Basha , the reigning favourite , has made for the young princess , his contracted wife , whom he is not yet permitted to visit without wit- nesses , though she is gone home to his house . He is a ...
... faithful copy of the verses that Ibrahim Basha , the reigning favourite , has made for the young princess , his contracted wife , whom he is not yet permitted to visit without wit- nesses , though she is gone home to his house . He is a ...
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Page 211 - His figure was beautiful ; but his manner was irresistible, by either man or woman. It was by this engaging, graceful manner, that he was enabled, during all his war, to connect the various and jarring powers of the Grand Alliance, and to carry them on to the main object of the war, notwithstanding their private and separate views, jealousies, and wrongheadednesses.
Page 94 - I received the news of Mr. Addison's being declared secretary of state with the less surprise, in that I know that post was almost offered to him before. At that time he declined it, and [I] really believe that he would have done well to have declined it now. Such a post as that, and such a wife as the countess, do not seem to be, in prudence, eligible for a man that is asthmatic, and we may see the day...
Page 404 - In regard to the right honourable lady (says he, in the letter to Lord Hervey,) your lordship's friend, I was far from designing a person of her condition by a name so derogatory to her as that of Sappho, a name prostituted to every infamous creature that ever wrote verse or novels. I protest I never applied that name to her in any verse of mine, public or private, and I firmly believe not in any letter or conversation. Whoever could invent a falsehood to support an accusation, I pity; and whoever...
Page 38 - You may easily imagine how desirous I must be of a correspondence with a person who had taught me long ago, that it was as possible to esteem at first sight as to love ; and who has since ruined me for all the conversation of one sex, and almost all the friendship of the other. I am but too sensible, through your means, that the company of men wants a certain softness to recommend it, and that of women wants everything else.
Page 207 - English stages, and it is only by a blind confidence in the reputation of Milton that a drama can be praised in which the intermediate parts have neither cause nor consequence, neither hasten nor retard the catastrophe.
Page 9 - Mr. Addison desired me to tell you that he wholly disapproves the manner of treating Mr. Dennis in a little pamphlet by way of Dr. Norris's account. When he thinks fit to take notice of Mr. Dennis's objections to his writings, he will do it in a way Mr. Dennis shall have no just reason to complain of.
Page 152 - I have made them : my building rises high enough to attract the eye and curiosity of the passenger from the river, where, upon beholding a mixture of beauty and ruin, he...
Page 105 - I have a mind to fill the rest of this paper with an accident that happened just under my eyes, and has made a great impression upon me. I have just passed part of this summer at an old romantic seat of my Lord Harcourt's, which he lent me. It overlooks a common-field, where, under the shade of a haycock, sat two lovers, as constant as ever were found in romance, beneath a spreading beech. The name of the one (let it sound as it will) was John Hewet; of the other, Sarah Drew. John was a well-set...
Page 42 - Amphitrion's taylor, and cheats him of a laced coat, and his banker of a bag of money, a Jew of...
Page 81 - I read over your Homer here with an infinite pleasure, and find several little passages explained, that I did not before entirely comprehend the beauty of: many of the customs, and much of the dress then in fashion, being yet retained. I...