LettersJ. and P. Knapton, H. Lintot, J. and R. Tonson, and S. Draper, 1751 |
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... never been charged with fo wicked a spirit as that of Per- fecution . I agree with you in my fentiments of the ftate of our nation fince this change : I find myself juft in the fame fituation of mind you defcribe as your own , heartily ...
... never been charged with fo wicked a spirit as that of Per- fecution . I agree with you in my fentiments of the ftate of our nation fince this change : I find myself juft in the fame fituation of mind you defcribe as your own , heartily ...
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... 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 talent which we call humour : Mr. Wycherley fhew'd his , even in this last ...
... 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 talent which we call humour : Mr. Wycherley fhew'd his , even in this last ...
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... never made the trial I have done ; which has fucceeded fo much to mine , and , I believe , not lefs to your fatisfaction : for , if I know you right , your pleasure is greater 1 in obliging me , ' than I can feel in FROM EDW . BLOUNT ...
... never made the trial I have done ; which has fucceeded fo much to mine , and , I believe , not lefs to your fatisfaction : for , if I know you right , your pleasure is greater 1 in obliging me , ' than I can feel in FROM EDW . BLOUNT ...
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... never deal in effentials , their faith never looks beyond ceremonials , nor their cha- rity beyond relations . As poor as I am , I would gladly relieve any diftreffed , confcien- tious French refugee at this inftant : what must my ...
... never deal in effentials , their faith never looks beyond ceremonials , nor their cha- rity beyond relations . As poor as I am , I would gladly relieve any diftreffed , confcien- tious French refugee at this inftant : what must my ...
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... never be afhamed of each other . I know I wish my Country well , and , if it undoes me , it shall not make me with it otherwife . LETTER VII . From Mr. BLOUNT . March 24 , 1715-16 . YOUR letters give me a gleam of fatif- faction , in ...
... never be afhamed of each other . I know I wish my Country well , and , if it undoes me , it shall not make me with it otherwife . LETTER VII . From Mr. BLOUNT . March 24 , 1715-16 . YOUR letters give me a gleam of fatif- faction , in ...
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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.