The Works of Alexander Pope, Esq. ...: LettersJ. and P. Knapton, 1751 |
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... most con- venient methods to be taken for the coming of the Pretender . Dr. Arbuthnot is fingular in his opini- on , and imagines your only defign is to attend at * Some time before the Death of Queen Anne , when her Ministers were ...
... most con- venient methods to be taken for the coming of the Pretender . Dr. Arbuthnot is fingular in his opini- on , and imagines your only defign is to attend at * Some time before the Death of Queen Anne , when her Ministers were ...
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... most impertinent . I am with the trueft affection , à Your's , & c . * This project ( in which the principal perfons engaged were Dr. Arbuthnot , Dr. Swift , and Mr. Pope ) was very noble one . It was to write a complete fatire in profe ...
... most impertinent . I am with the trueft affection , à Your's , & c . * This project ( in which the principal perfons engaged were Dr. Arbuthnot , Dr. Swift , and Mr. Pope ) was very noble one . It was to write a complete fatire in profe ...
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... most commonly talked of in the world . I neither know the names nor number of the Royal Family which now reigns , further than the Prayer - book informs me . I cannot tell who is Chancellor , who are Se- cretaries , nor with what ...
... most commonly talked of in the world . I neither know the names nor number of the Royal Family which now reigns , further than the Prayer - book informs me . I cannot tell who is Chancellor , who are Se- cretaries , nor with what ...
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... most eminent of those who profeffed his own principles , publickly difallowed his proceedings . But the caufe being fo very odious and impopular , the trial of the Verdict was deferred from one Term to another , until upon the Duke of G ...
... most eminent of those who profeffed his own principles , publickly difallowed his proceedings . But the caufe being fo very odious and impopular , the trial of the Verdict was deferred from one Term to another , until upon the Duke of G ...
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... people . For neceffity may abolish any Law , but cannot alter the fentiments of the vulgar ; Right " of inheritance being perhaps the most popular of C 2 all all topics and therefore in great Changes when that is FROM DR . SWIFT , etc. 19.
... people . For neceffity may abolish any Law , but cannot alter the fentiments of the vulgar ; Right " of inheritance being perhaps the most popular of C 2 all all topics and therefore in great Changes when that is FROM DR . SWIFT , etc. 19.
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Página 119 - I used to be going to bed, surfeited with pleasure, or jaded with business : my head often full of schemes, and my heart as often full of anxiety. Is it a misfortune, think you, that I rise at this hour refreshed, serene, and calm ? that the past...
Página 97 - As to this country,* there have been three terrible years dearth of corn, and every place strewed with beggars; but dearths are common in better climates, and our evils here lie much deeper. Imagine a nation the two thirds of whose revenues are spent out of it, and who are not permitted to trade with the other third, and where the pride of women will not suffer...
Página 159 - Two or three of us had a fancy, three years ago, to write a weekly paper, and call it an Intelligencer. But it continued not long ; for the whole volume (it was reprinted in London, and I find you have seen it,) was the work only of two, myself and Dr.
Página 64 - But the best way of convincing you of my indulgence, will be, if I live, to visit you in Ireland, and act there as much in my own way as you did here in yours.
Página 55 - Lords and Commons, nemine contradicente; and the whole town, men, women, and children, are quite full of it. Perhaps I may all this time be talking to you of a book you have never seen, and which...
Página 53 - The politicians to a man agree, that it is free from particular reflections, but that the satire on general societies of men is too severe.
Página 178 - Dr. Delany is the only gentleman I know, who keeps one certain day in the week to entertain seven or eight friends at dinner, and to pass the evening, where there is nothing of excess, either in eating or drinking.
Página 139 - ... to your stock, and then I shall be in less pain about you. I know you can find dinners, but you love twelvepenny coaches too well, without considering that the interest of a whole thousand pounds brings you but half a crown a day...
Página 121 - I muft accommodate my plan to this deficiency. In the mean time Pope has given me more trouble than he or I thought of ; and you will be...
Página 177 - It is true our meat and wine is cheaper here, as it is always in the poorest countries, because there is no money to pay for them : I believe there are not in this whole city three gentlemen out of employment, who are able to give entertainments...