The Works ...: With the Author's Life and Character, Notes [etc.] In Eight Volumes, Volumen8A. Donaldson, 1761 |
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... these letters 1. Mr Pope's answer to Dr Swift , offering him a fum of money to induce him to change his religion 11. To Dr Swift . Retired from court fome months before the Queen's death III . From Dr Swift at Dublin . How little he ...
... these letters 1. Mr Pope's answer to Dr Swift , offering him a fum of money to induce him to change his religion 11. To Dr Swift . Retired from court fome months before the Queen's death III . From Dr Swift at Dublin . How little he ...
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... these two great men , yet the fame fort of friendship feems to have fubfifted between them as between Virgil and Horace . The mu tual affection of the two English poets appears throughout their works . And therefore in this place I ...
... these two great men , yet the fame fort of friendship feems to have fubfifted between them as between Virgil and Horace . The mu tual affection of the two English poets appears throughout their works . And therefore in this place I ...
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... these trifles are told in fo agreeable a manner , and appear fo na- tural and eafy , that I can fearce think the skill of Ovid greater , who , in his Fafti , has turned the Roman calendar into elegant poetry , and has verfified a fet of ...
... these trifles are told in fo agreeable a manner , and appear fo na- tural and eafy , that I can fearce think the skill of Ovid greater , who , in his Fafti , has turned the Roman calendar into elegant poetry , and has verfified a fet of ...
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... these few months , with ****** one Mr Jervas , who hath grie- vously offended in making the likeness of almost all things in heaven above and earth below ; and one Mr Gay , an unhappy youth , who writes paftorals during the time of ...
... these few months , with ****** one Mr Jervas , who hath grie- vously offended in making the likeness of almost all things in heaven above and earth below ; and one Mr Gay , an unhappy youth , who writes paftorals during the time of ...
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... these amusements I am no ftranger to in the country ; and doubt not but , by this time , you begin to relish them in your prefent contemplative fituation . I remember a man who was thought to have fome knowledge in the world , ufed to ...
... these amusements I am no ftranger to in the country ; and doubt not but , by this time , you begin to relish them in your prefent contemplative fituation . I remember a man who was thought to have fome knowledge in the world , ufed to ...
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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...