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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... Hugh Bethel Efq . praife of humanity and good - nature . The benefits of equality in friendship , XXX . To the fame . On the death of the Earl of C. Letter XXXI . On his mother's recovery : The melancholy b 5 CONTENT S. IX.
... Hugh Bethel Efq . praife of humanity and good - nature . The benefits of equality in friendship , XXX . To the fame . On the death of the Earl of C. Letter XXXI . On his mother's recovery : The melancholy b 5 CONTENT S. IX.
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... Nature : for the happinefs of minds can furely be nothing but knowledge . The highest gratification we receive here from com , pany is Mirth , which at the best is but a fluttering un quiet motion , that beats about the breast for a few ...
... Nature : for the happinefs of minds can furely be nothing but knowledge . The highest gratification we receive here from com , pany is Mirth , which at the best is but a fluttering un quiet motion , that beats about the breast for a few ...
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... nature in her variations ; makes me think you have not conftrued Joannes Secundus wrong , in the verfe which precedes that which you quote : Bene nota fides , as I take it , does no way fig- nify the Roman Catholic Religion , tho ...
... nature in her variations ; makes me think you have not conftrued Joannes Secundus wrong , in the verfe which precedes that which you quote : Bene nota fides , as I take it , does no way fig- nify the Roman Catholic Religion , tho ...
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... natural to delay a letter , at fuch a feafon as this , as to retard a melancholy visit to a perfon one cannot relieve . One is afhamed in that circumftance , to pretend to entertain people with tri- Aling , infignificant affectations of ...
... natural to delay a letter , at fuch a feafon as this , as to retard a melancholy visit to a perfon one cannot relieve . One is afhamed in that circumftance , to pretend to entertain people with tri- Aling , infignificant affectations of ...
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... nature has ma- de to command a variety of valleys and rifing woods ; with a veneration mix'd with a pleasure , that represent , ed her to me in those puerile amusements , which en- gaged her fo many years ago in this place . I fancied ...
... nature has ma- de to command a variety of valleys and rifing woods ; with a veneration mix'd with a pleasure , that represent , ed her to me in those puerile amusements , which en- gaged her fo many years ago in this place . I fancied ...
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