The Works Of Alexander Pope, Esq: In Ten Volumes Complete, With His Last Corrections, Additions, And Improvements. Being The Second Of His Letters. 8Nicolai, 1764 - 225 pages |
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... live as quietly as we fhall certainly let theirs ; that is to say , that want of power itself in us may not be a furer pre- vention of harm , than want of will in them . I am fure , if all Whighs and all Tories had the spirit of one ...
... live as quietly as we fhall certainly let theirs ; that is to say , that want of power itself in us may not be a furer pre- vention of harm , than want of will in them . I am fure , if all Whighs and all Tories had the spirit of one ...
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... lives have there been loft in hot blood , and how many more are there like to be taken of in cold ? If the broils of ... live in a certain peace of mind by it , which , I am perfuaded , brings a man more content than all the perquifites ...
... lives have there been loft in hot blood , and how many more are there like to be taken of in cold ? If the broils of ... live in a certain peace of mind by it , which , I am perfuaded , brings a man more content than all the perquifites ...
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... live by and in one another , while verfe is verfe . This confi- deration hardens me in my opinion rather to congra- tulate you , fince you have the pleasure of the profpect whenever you take it from your fhelf , and at the fame time the ...
... live by and in one another , while verfe is verfe . This confi- deration hardens me in my opinion rather to congra- tulate you , fince you have the pleasure of the profpect whenever you take it from your fhelf , and at the fame time the ...
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... live at Twickenham ! I take that period to be very fublime , and to include more than a hundred sentences that might be writ to express distraction , hurry , multiplication of nothings , and all the fatiguing perpetual business of ...
... live at Twickenham ! I take that period to be very fublime , and to include more than a hundred sentences that might be writ to express distraction , hurry , multiplication of nothings , and all the fatiguing perpetual business of ...
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... live together in cities . I hope you are long fince perfectly reftor'd , and rifen from your gout , happy in the delights of a con- rented family , smiling at ftorms , laughing at greatness , merry over a christmas- fire , and ...
... live together in cities . I hope you are long fince perfectly reftor'd , and rifen from your gout , happy in the delights of a con- rented family , smiling at ftorms , laughing at greatness , merry over a christmas- fire , and ...
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