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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Page 31
... truth 7. I wish you were here to bear teftimony how little it owes to Art , either the place itself , or the image I give of it . I am , & c . 7 He had greatly inlarged and improved this Grotto not long before his death : and , by ...
... truth 7. I wish you were here to bear teftimony how little it owes to Art , either the place itself , or the image I give of it . I am , & c . 7 He had greatly inlarged and improved this Grotto not long before his death : and , by ...
Page 32
... truth to falfify with , and is a lye guarded . ) Your letter has been in my pocket in conftant wearing , till that , and the pocker , and the fuit , are worn out ; by which means I have read it forty times , and I find by fo doing that ...
... truth to falfify with , and is a lye guarded . ) Your letter has been in my pocket in conftant wearing , till that , and the pocker , and the fuit , are worn out ; by which means I have read it forty times , and I find by fo doing that ...
Page 39
... truth , has rather been employed to contemplate of you , than to forget you ) I begin to talk of my own works . I find it is in the finishing a book , as in concluding a feffion of Parliament , one always thinks it will be very soon ...
... truth , has rather been employed to contemplate of you , than to forget you ) I begin to talk of my own works . I find it is in the finishing a book , as in concluding a feffion of Parliament , one always thinks it will be very soon ...
Page 53
... truth and religious fincerity ) that I am , and ever will be , Your , & c . T LETTER XIII . HE fame reafon that hinder'd your writing , hin- der'd mine , the pleafing expectation to see you in town . Indeed fince the willing confinement ...
... truth and religious fincerity ) that I am , and ever will be , Your , & c . T LETTER XIII . HE fame reafon that hinder'd your writing , hin- der'd mine , the pleafing expectation to see you in town . Indeed fince the willing confinement ...
Page 67
... truth , it is the only instance of that kind I ever met with , from a perfon good for any thing else , nay for every thing else to which he is pleas'd to turn himself . Depend upon it , I fhall fee you with great pleasure st Bromley ...
... truth , it is the only instance of that kind I ever met with , from a perfon good for any thing else , nay for every thing else to which he is pleas'd to turn himself . Depend upon it , I fhall fee you with great pleasure st Bromley ...
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