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
... 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 come ...
... 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 come ...
Page 45
... pain about Mr. Gay's stock of health . I promise you he will spend it all upon laziness , and run deep in debt by a winter's repofe in town ; therefore I entreat your Grace will order him to move his chops lefs and his legs more the fix ...
... pain about Mr. Gay's stock of health . I promise you he will spend it all upon laziness , and run deep in debt by a winter's repofe in town ; therefore I entreat your Grace will order him to move his chops lefs and his legs more the fix ...
Page 46
... pain . With me , the lownefs of fpirits hath a most unhappy effect ; I am grown lefs patient with folitude , and harder to be pleas'd with company ; which I could formerly better digeft , when I could be cafier without it than at pre ...
... pain . With me , the lownefs of fpirits hath a most unhappy effect ; I am grown lefs patient with folitude , and harder to be pleas'd with company ; which I could formerly better digeft , when I could be cafier without it than at pre ...
Page 49
... pain , and I have not heard of a more gentle decay , with- out uneafiness to herself or friends ; yet I cannot but pity you , who are ten times the greater fufferer , by having the perfon you most love , fo long before you , and dying ...
... pain , and I have not heard of a more gentle decay , with- out uneafiness to herself or friends ; yet I cannot but pity you , who are ten times the greater fufferer , by having the perfon you most love , fo long before you , and dying ...
Page 66
... pain , under the care of the most dutiful Son that I have ever known or heard of , which is a felicity not happening to one in a million . The worst effect of her death falls up- on me , and fo much the worse , because I expected ...
... pain , under the care of the most dutiful Son that I have ever known or heard of , which is a felicity not happening to one in a million . The worst effect of her death falls up- on me , and fo much the worse , because I expected ...
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