LettersJ. and P. Knapton, H. Lintot, J. and R. Tonson, and S. Draper, 1751 |
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... things neceffary to a man who has fuch undertakings in hand as Yours . All lovers of Homer are indebted to you for taking fo much pains about the fitua- tion of his Heroes ' kingdoms ; it will not only be of great ufe with regard to his ...
... things neceffary to a man who has fuch undertakings in hand as Yours . All lovers of Homer are indebted to you for taking fo much pains about the fitua- tion of his Heroes ' kingdoms ; it will not only be of great ufe with regard to his ...
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... things facred , to treat fo folemn a matter as a generous vo- luntary fuffering , with compliments , or he- roic gallantries . Such a mind as your's has no need of being spirited up into honour , or like a weak C 2 a weak woman ...
... things facred , to treat fo folemn a matter as a generous vo- luntary fuffering , with compliments , or he- roic gallantries . Such a mind as your's has no need of being spirited up into honour , or like a weak C 2 a weak woman ...
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... thing we are left capable of doing , is to endeavour to lighten each other's load , and ( opprefs'd as we are ) to fuccour fuch as are yet more opprefs'd . If there are are too many who cannot be afflifted but by what 18 LETTERS TO AND.
... thing we are left capable of doing , is to endeavour to lighten each other's load , and ( opprefs'd as we are ) to fuccour fuch as are yet more opprefs'd . If there are are too many who cannot be afflifted but by what 18 LETTERS TO AND.
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... thing that is good , or generous : I find by a letter of your lady's ( which I have feen ) that their ease and ... things that make me enamour'd of you . I write this from Windfor - Forest , of which I am come to take my laft look . We ...
... thing that is good , or generous : I find by a letter of your lady's ( which I have feen ) that their ease and ... things that make me enamour'd of you . I write this from Windfor - Forest , of which I am come to take my laft look . We ...
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... things , as the other is for almost every thing ) and go with me where War will not reach us , nor paultry Constables fummon us to veftries . The future epiftle you flatter me with , will find me ftill here , and I think I may be here a ...
... things , as the other is for almost every thing ) and go with me where War will not reach us , nor paultry Constables fummon us to veftries . The future epiftle you flatter me with , will find me ftill here , and I think I may be here a ...
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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.
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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.