The Works ...: With the Author's Life and Character, Notes [etc.] In Eight Volumes, Volumen8A. Donaldson, 1761 |
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... perhaps hafty obfervations , upon perfons , times , and cir- cumstances , are often referved as treasures , and hoarded up as mi- fers hoard gold ; like which , they lie concealed in cabinets and strong boxes for fome time , till ...
... perhaps hafty obfervations , upon perfons , times , and cir- cumstances , are often referved as treasures , and hoarded up as mi- fers hoard gold ; like which , they lie concealed in cabinets and strong boxes for fome time , till ...
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... perhaps , as he said himself , too proud to be vain . When he was polite , it was in a manner entirely his own . In his friendships he was conftant and undisguised . He was the fame in his enmities . He generally spoke as he thought in ...
... perhaps , as he said himself , too proud to be vain . When he was polite , it was in a manner entirely his own . In his friendships he was conftant and undisguised . He was the fame in his enmities . He generally spoke as he thought in ...
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... perhaps an agreement fo perfectly mutual , is scarce to be met with in any other inftance . Emulation generally breaks the chain of friendship between poets . They are running with the utmost eager- nefs to the fame goal : no wonder ...
... perhaps an agreement fo perfectly mutual , is scarce to be met with in any other inftance . Emulation generally breaks the chain of friendship between poets . They are running with the utmost eager- nefs to the fame goal : no wonder ...
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... perhaps I was unreasonable in looking for medals , and not being con- tented with the common current fpecies . In our prejudices of favour or averfion we are apt to be deceived by names : nor can it be doubt- ed , that fuch writers ...
... perhaps I was unreasonable in looking for medals , and not being con- tented with the common current fpecies . In our prejudices of favour or averfion we are apt to be deceived by names : nor can it be doubt- ed , that fuch writers ...
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... perhaps may be only policy in him or you ; and I , who am half a Whig , mut not entirely credit any thing he affirms . At Button's it is reported you are gone to Hanover , and that Gay goes only on an embaffy to you . Others ap- prehend ...
... perhaps may be only policy in him or you ; and I , who am half a Whig , mut not entirely credit any thing he affirms . At Button's it is reported you are gone to Hanover , and that Gay goes only on an embaffy to you . Others ap- prehend ...
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Página 92 - 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.
Página 44 - I hate and detest that animal called man, although I heartily love John, Peter, Thomas, and so forth.
Página 122 - I dislike nothing in your letter but an affected apology for bad writing, bad spelling, and a bad pen; which you pretend Mr Gay found fault with; Wherein you affront Mr Gay, you affront me, and you affront yourself.
Página 179 - I see things more in the whole, more consistent, and more clearly deduced from, and related to each other. But what I gain on the side of philosophy, I lose on the side of poetry : the flowers are gone, when the fruits begin to ripen, and the fruits perhaps will never ripen perfectly.
Página 60 - Motte * received the copy (he tells me) he knew not from whence, nor from whom, dropped at his house in the dark, from a hackney-coach : by computing the time, I found it was after you left England, so, for my part, I suspend my judgment.
Página 15 - ... to war and gods. I tell you all the faults I know, only in one or two places you are a little obscure; but I expected you to be so in one or two and twenty.
Página 33 - I often threatened myself with the journey, and am every summer practising to ride and get health to bear it : the only inconvenience is, that I grow old in the experiment. Although I care not to talk to you as a divine, yet I hope you have not been author of your colic : do you drink bad wine, or keep bad company? Are you not as many years older as I ? It will not be always et tibi quos mihi dempserit apponet annos.
Página 31 - I dare not venture to publish them : For however orthodox they may be while I am now writing, they may become criminal enough to bring me into trouble before midsummer.
Página 155 - But even this trick shall not provoke me to print the true one, which indeed is not proper to be seen till I can be seen no more...
Página 194 - Patron, and then descended to be my Friend. It is a great favour of Heaven, that your health grows better by the addition of years. I have...