The works of Alexander Pope. With a selection of explanatory notes, and the account of his life by dr. Johnson, Volume 61812 |
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... turn them into select Maxims and Reflections , which Mr. Wycherley agreed to , and be- gan before his death 51 LETTERS to and from Mr. WALSH . From 1705 to vi CONTENTS . Some Critical Observations on English Versi- fication.
... turn them into select Maxims and Reflections , which Mr. Wycherley agreed to , and be- gan before his death 51 LETTERS to and from Mr. WALSH . From 1705 to vi CONTENTS . Some Critical Observations on English Versi- fication.
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... turn shall happen , I shall joyfully acquaint you with it , there being none more truly your obliged servant , than , Sir , Your , etc. E. THOMAS . P. S. A letter , Sir , directed to Mrs. Thomas , to be left at my house , will be safely ...
... turn shall happen , I shall joyfully acquaint you with it , there being none more truly your obliged servant , than , Sir , Your , etc. E. THOMAS . P. S. A letter , Sir , directed to Mrs. Thomas , to be left at my house , will be safely ...
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... turn ; I will always own , it is my infallible Pope has , or would redeem me from a poetical damning , the second time ; and save my rhymes from being condemned to the critics flames to all eternity ; but ( by the faith you profess ...
... turn ; I will always own , it is my infallible Pope has , or would redeem me from a poetical damning , the second time ; and save my rhymes from being condemned to the critics flames to all eternity ; but ( by the faith you profess ...
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... turn , as if it were to the memory of the same lady , if they were not written for some particular woman whom you would make immortal . You may take occasion to shew the difference between poets ' mis- tresses , and other mens . ' I ...
... turn , as if it were to the memory of the same lady , if they were not written for some particular woman whom you would make immortal . You may take occasion to shew the difference between poets ' mis- tresses , and other mens . ' I ...
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... turn and Polynices takes his flight from Thebes on his brother's refusal to resign the throne . All this is in the first book ; in the next Tydeus is sent ambas- sador to Eteocles , and demands his resignation in these terms ...
... turn and Polynices takes his flight from Thebes on his brother's refusal to resign the throne . All this is in the first book ; in the next Tydeus is sent ambas- sador to Eteocles , and demands his resignation in these terms ...
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Page 79 - HAPPY the man, whose wish and care A few paternal acres bound, Content to breathe his native air, In his own ground. Whose herds with milk, whose fields with bread, Whose flocks supply him with attire ; Whose trees in summer yield him shade, In winter fire.
Page 79 - Whose herds with milk, whose fields with bread, Whose flocks supply him with attire ; Whose trees in summer yield him shade, In winter fire. Blest, who can unconcern'dly find Hours, days, and years, slide soft away In health of body, peace of mind, Quiet by day. Sound sleep by night ; study and ease Together mix'd, sweet recreation, And innocence, which most does please With meditation.
Page 191 - YOU formerly observed to me that nothing made a more ridiculous figure in a man's life than the disparity we often find in him sick and well ; thus one of an unfortunate constitution is perpetually exhibiting' a miserable example of the weakness of his mind, and of his body, in their turns. I have had frequent opportunities of late to consider myself in these different views, and, I hope, have received some advantage by it, if what Waller says be true, that The soul's dark cottage, batter'd and decay'd,...
Page 55 - People seek for what they call wit, on all subjects, and in all places ; not considering that nature loves truth so well, that it hardly ever admit; of flourishing : Conceit is to nature what paint is to beauty ; it is not only needless, but impairs what it would improve.
Page 245 - Devotione, ie a sort of religious opera), they make fireworks almost every week out of devotion ; the streets are often hung with arras out of devotion ; and (what is still more strange) the ladies invite gentlemen to their houses, and treat them with music and sweetmeats, out of devotion : in a word, were it not for this devotion of its inhabitants, Naples would have little else to recommend it beside the air and situation.
Page 291 - I know of nothing that will be so interesting to you at present as some circumstances of the last act of that eminent comic poet and our friend, Wycherley. He had often told me...
Page 309 - ... a perspective glass. When you shut the doors of this grotto, it becomes, on the instant, from a luminous room, a camera obscura ; on the walls of which all the objects of the river, hills, woods, and boats, are forming a moving picture, in their visible radiations ; and when you have a mind to light it up, it affords you a very different scene.
Page 192 - I am even as unconcerned as was that honest Hibernian, who, being in bed in the great storm some years ago, and told the house would tumble over his head, made answer, " What care I for the house ? I am only a lodger.
Page 251 - Now damn them ! what if they should put it into the newspaper, how you and I went together to Oxford ? what would I care ? If I should go down into Sussex, they would say I was gone to the Speaker. But what of that ? If my son were but big enough to go on with the business, by G — d I would keep as good company as old Jacob.
Page 57 - A mutual commerce makes Poetry flourish : but then poets, like merchants, should repay with something of their own what they take from others : not, like pirates, make prize of all they meet.