The Works Of Alexander Pope, Esq: In Ten Volumes Complete, With His Last Corrections, Additions, And Improvements. Being The Fourth Of His Letters. 10Nicolai, 1764 - 166 pages |
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Page 27
... less pain about you . I know you can find dinners , but you love twelvepenny coaches too well , without confi- dering that the interest of a whole thousand pounds brings you but half a crown a day . I find a greater longing than ever to ...
... less pain about you . I know you can find dinners , but you love twelvepenny coaches too well , without confi- dering that the interest of a whole thousand pounds brings you but half a crown a day . I find a greater longing than ever to ...
Page 33
... less Admirers , and greater Reafoners 1 ) . I ftudy much more to render my own portion of Being eafy , and to keep this peevish frame of the human body in good humour . Infirmities have not quite unmann'd me , and it will delight you to ...
... less Admirers , and greater Reafoners 1 ) . I ftudy much more to render my own portion of Being eafy , and to keep this peevish frame of the human body in good humour . Infirmities have not quite unmann'd me , and it will delight you to ...
Page 49
... less lazy in order to mend his fortune . But women who live by their beauty , and men by their wit , are seldom provident enough to confider that both Wit and Beauty will go off with years , and there is no living upon the credit of ...
... less lazy in order to mend his fortune . But women who live by their beauty , and men by their wit , are seldom provident enough to confider that both Wit and Beauty will go off with years , and there is no living upon the credit of ...
Page 92
... less too conftant ; I fleep ill , and have a poor appetite . I can as eafily write a Poem in the Chinese language as my own ; I am as fit for Matrimony as invention ; and yet I have daily fchemes for innumerable Effays in profe , and ...
... less too conftant ; I fleep ill , and have a poor appetite . I can as eafily write a Poem in the Chinese language as my own ; I am as fit for Matrimony as invention ; and yet I have daily fchemes for innumerable Effays in profe , and ...
Page 102
... less , you shall not have lefs of my Affection . A whole people will re- joyce at every year that shall be added to you , of which you have had a late instance in the public re- joicings on your birth - day . I can affure you , some ...
... less , you shall not have lefs of my Affection . A whole people will re- joyce at every year that shall be added to you , of which you have had a late instance in the public re- joicings on your birth - day . I can affure you , some ...
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