LettersJ. and P. Knapton, H. Lintot, J. and R. Tonson, and S. Draper, 1751 |
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... dear Sir , written in a style that shews you full of health , and in the midft of diver- fions : I think thofe two things neceffary to a man who has fuch undertakings in hand as Yours . All lovers of Homer are indebted to you for taking ...
... dear Sir , written in a style that shews you full of health , and in the midft of diver- fions : I think thofe two things neceffary to a man who has fuch undertakings in hand as Yours . All lovers of Homer are indebted to you for taking ...
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... , he called his young wife to the bedfide , and earnestly entreated her not- to deny him one request , the last he should . make . Upon her affurances of consenting to cr it , he told her , ' My dear I it , 12 LETTERS TO AND.
... , he called his young wife to the bedfide , and earnestly entreated her not- to deny him one request , the last he should . make . Upon her affurances of consenting to cr it , he told her , ' My dear I it , 12 LETTERS TO AND.
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Alexander Pope. cr it , he told her , ' My dear , it is only this , that you will never marry an old man again . ” I cannot help remarking , that fickness , which of- ten destroys both wit and wisdom , yet seldom has power to remove that ...
Alexander Pope. cr it , he told her , ' My dear , it is only this , that you will never marry an old man again . ” I cannot help remarking , that fickness , which of- ten destroys both wit and wisdom , yet seldom has power to remove that ...
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... Dear Sir , Your , & c . LETTER VIII . June 22 , 1717 . I F a regard both to public and private affairs may plead a lawful excufe in behalf of a negligent correspondent , I have really a very good title to it . I cannot fay whether ' tis ...
... Dear Sir , Your , & c . LETTER VIII . June 22 , 1717 . I F a regard both to public and private affairs may plead a lawful excufe in behalf of a negligent correspondent , I have really a very good title to it . I cannot fay whether ' tis ...
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... dear to us . are really each of us in want of a friend , of fuch an humane turn as yourself , to make al- most any thing defirable to us . I feel your ab- fence more than ever , at the fame time I can less express my regards to you than ...
... dear to us . are really each of us in want of a friend , of fuch an humane turn as yourself , to make al- most any thing defirable to us . I feel your ab- fence more than ever , at the fame time I can less express my regards to you than ...
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Page 270 - Hear this, and tremble ! you who 'scape the laws. Yes, while I live, no rich or noble knave Shall walk the world, in credit, to his grave.
Page 140 - Homer had upon me, to write fifty verses a day, besides learned notes, all which are at a conclusion for this year. Rejoice with me, O my friend ! that my labour is over ; come and make merry with me in much feasting. We will feed among the lilies (by the lilies I mean the ladies). Are not the...
Page 116 - I knew you, and shall not fail to do it when I am not allowed to tell you so, as the case will soon be.
Page 222 - And this for the very reason which possibly might hinder your coming, that my poor mother is dead.* I thank God, her death was as easy, as her life was innocent; and as it cost her not a groan, or even a sigh, there is yet upon her countenance such an expression of tranquillity, nay, almost of pleasure, that it is even amiable to behold it.
Page 144 - It was but this very morning that he had obtained her parents' consent, and it was but till the next week that they were to wait to be happy. Perhaps...
Page 138 - DEAR MR. GAY, — Welcome to your native soil, welcome to your friends, thrice welcome to me, whether returned in glory, blest with court interest, the love and familiarity of the great, and filled with agreeable hopes ; or melancholy with dejection, contemplative of the changes of fortune, and doubtful for the future. Whether returned a triumphant Whig or a...
Page 140 - Pardon me if I add a word of advice in the poetical way. Write something on the King, or Prince, or Princess.
Page 146 - ... signs of life were found in either. Attended by their melancholy companions, they were conveyed to the town, and the next day were interred in Stanton-Harcourt church-yard.
Page 214 - It is so with me, for you are in one thing an evangelical man, that you know not where to lay your head ; and, I think, you have no house.
Page 122 - Those whose date is the shortest, live long enough to laugh at one half of it : the boy despises the infant, the man the boy, the philosopher both, and the Christian all. You may now begin to think your manhood was too much a puerility ; and you will never suffer your age to be but a second infancy.