LettersJ. and P. Knapton, H. Lintot, J. and R. Tonson, and S. Draper, 1751 |
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... . The author's progress in tran- flating Homer's Iliad . II . Excufe for writing carelessly : The bu- mour of the town . III . From Mr. Digby . Answer to the former . LETTER IV . On the finishing his translation of the IV . On ii CONTENTS .
... . The author's progress in tran- flating Homer's Iliad . II . Excufe for writing carelessly : The bu- mour of the town . III . From Mr. Digby . Answer to the former . LETTER IV . On the finishing his translation of the IV . On ii CONTENTS .
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... writing . Of Mr. Fen- ton's death . XVI . A congratulation to Mr. Gay , on the end of his expectations at court . The innocence of a private life , and the happiness of independency . XVII . From Mr. Gay , in the country . Thoughts of ...
... writing . Of Mr. Fen- ton's death . XVI . A congratulation to Mr. Gay , on the end of his expectations at court . The innocence of a private life , and the happiness of independency . XVII . From Mr. Gay , in the country . Thoughts of ...
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... writing pa- negyric . XXV . From Mr. Cleland to Mr. Gay . XXVI . Mr. Pope to the Earl of Burlington . XXVII . The author's bad health , complaints of of abfence , and fome advice to his friend . XXVIII . On the death of Mr. Gay , his mo ...
... writing pa- negyric . XXV . From Mr. Cleland to Mr. Gay . XXVI . Mr. Pope to the Earl of Burlington . XXVII . The author's bad health , complaints of of abfence , and fome advice to his friend . XXVIII . On the death of Mr. Gay , his mo ...
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... write to him in fo high a style , that , were my epiftle inter- cepted , it would raise no small admiration in an ordinary man . There is fcarce an order in it of lefs importance , than to remove fuch and fuch mountains , alter the ...
... write to him in fo high a style , that , were my epiftle inter- cepted , it would raise no small admiration in an ordinary man . There is fcarce an order in it of lefs importance , than to remove fuch and fuch mountains , alter the ...
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... writing too : the more time we give ourselves to think over one's own or a friend's unhappiness , the more un- able we grow to express the grief that proceeds from it . It is as natural to delay a letter , at such a season as this , as ...
... writing too : the more time we give ourselves to think over one's own or a friend's unhappiness , the more un- able we grow to express the grief that proceeds from it . It is as natural to delay a letter , at such a season as this , as ...
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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.