The Works of Alexander Pope, Esq: In Four Volumes Complete. With His Last Corrections, Additions, and Improvements. Carefully Collated and Compared with Former Editions: Together with Notes from the Various Critics and CommentatorsEditor, and sold, 1778 |
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... live in an age , where it is criminal to be moderate ; and where no one man can be allowed to be juft to all men . The notions of right and wrong are fo far ftrain'd , that perhaps to be in the right fo very violently , may be of worse ...
... live in an age , where it is criminal to be moderate ; and where no one man can be allowed to be juft to all men . The notions of right and wrong are fo far ftrain'd , that perhaps to be in the right fo very violently , may be of worse ...
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... live agreeably in the town , or contentedly in the country , which is really all the difference I fet between an eafy fortune and a small one . It is indeed a high ftrain of generofity in you , to think of making me eafy all my life ...
... live agreeably in the town , or contentedly in the country , which is really all the difference I fet between an eafy fortune and a small one . It is indeed a high ftrain of generofity in you , to think of making me eafy all my life ...
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... live , who are now too infirm to remove to another . There is yet a small fubfiftence left them in the few remaining books of the library . We had never seen half what I had described , but for a ftarch'd , grey - headed Steward , who ...
... live , who are now too infirm to remove to another . There is yet a small fubfiftence left them in the few remaining books of the library . We had never seen half what I had described , but for a ftarch'd , grey - headed Steward , who ...
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... live as quietly as we shall certainly let theirs ; that is to fay , that want of power itself in us may not be a furer prevention of harm , than want of will in them . I am fure , if all Whigs and all Tories had the spirit of one Roman ...
... live as quietly as we shall certainly let theirs ; that is to fay , that want of power itself in us may not be a furer prevention of harm , than want of will in them . I am fure , if all Whigs and all Tories had the spirit of one Roman ...
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... live in a certain peace of mind by it , which , I am per- fuaded , brings a man more content than all the perqui- fites of wild ambition . I with pleasure join with you wishing , nay , I am not ashamed to fay , in praying for the ...
... live in a certain peace of mind by it , which , I am per- fuaded , brings a man more content than all the perqui- fites of wild ambition . I with pleasure join with you wishing , nay , I am not ashamed to fay , in praying for the ...
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Common terms and phrases
Addiſon Adieu affure againſt almoft anſwer becauſe befides beft believe beſt Bishop of ROCHESTER cafe caufe converfation deferves defign defire Duchefs Dunciad eafy efteem excufe fafe faid fame fatire feems feen fenfe ferve fervice fhall fhew fhould fide fince fincere firft firſt fome fomething foon forry fpirit friendſhip ftate ftill fubject fuch fuffer fure give greateſt himſelf Homer honeft honour hope houfe houſe Iliad juft juftice juſt Lady laft leaft leaſt lefs LETTER Lintot live Lord Lord Bolingbroke mind moft moſt muft muſt myſelf never obferve obliged occafion opinion perfon pleafed pleas'd pleaſe pleaſure Poet poetry Pope prefent profe reafon refpect ſhall ſmall ſuch Swift tell thefe themſelves theſe thing thofe thoſe thought thouſand thro tranflation Twickenham uſe verfes verſes Whig whofe wifh wiſh worfe writ write yourſelf
Popular passages
Page 20 - The world recedes; it disappears! Heaven opens on my eyes! my ears With sounds seraphic ring: Lend, lend your wings! I mount! I fly! O Grave! where is thy victory? O Death! where is thy sting?
Page 264 - I hate and detest that animal called man, although I heartily love John, Peter, Thomas, and so forth.
Page 14 - ... not very common to young men, that the attractions of the world have not dazzled me very much ; and I...
Page 305 - I will further tell you, that all my endeavours, from a boy, to distinguish myself, were only for want of a great title and fortune, that I might be used like a Lord by those who have an opinion of my parts — whether right or wrong, it is no great matter, and so the reputation of wit or great learning does the office of a blue ribbon, or of a coach and six horses.
Page 107 - The bottom is paved with simple pebble, as is also the adjoining walk up the wilderness to the temple, in the natural taste, agreeing not ill with the little dripping murmur, and the aquatic idea of the whole place.
Page 91 - ... as a kind of hint of the order of time in which they are to be taken.
Page 365 - All my acquaintance tell me, they know not above three families where they can occafionally dine in a whole year : Dr. Delany is the only gentleman I know, who keeps one certain day in the week to entertain...
Page 374 - ... I've been long ago, of my Wit ; my fyftem is a fhort one, and my circle narrow. Imagination has no limits, and that is...
Page 243 - Curll, when I was in credit; but the rogue would never allow me a fair stroke at them, although my penknife was ready drawn and sharp.
Page 167 - DEAR MR. GAY, — Welcome to your native soil, welcome to your friends, thrice welcome to me, whether returned in glory, blest with court interest, the love and familiarity of the great, and filled with agreeable hopes ; or melancholy with dejection, contemplative of the changes of fortune, and doubtful for the future. Whether returned a triumphant Whig or a...