The Works of Alexander Pope, 7. kötetHenry Lintot, 1737 |
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25. oldal
... lefs ! you find your felf in the houfe of office . From the parlour you think to ftep into the drawing room , but upon opening the iron - nail'd door , you are convinc'd by a flight of birds about your ears and a cloud of duft in your ...
... lefs ! you find your felf in the houfe of office . From the parlour you think to ftep into the drawing room , but upon opening the iron - nail'd door , you are convinc'd by a flight of birds about your ears and a cloud of duft in your ...
32. oldal
... lefs occafion , than one who is fo Ane a Poet in other kinds ; and who must have too much wit to believe , any alteration of another can intitle him to the denomination of an Epick Poet himself : tho ' no man in this age feems more ...
... lefs occafion , than one who is fo Ane a Poet in other kinds ; and who must have too much wit to believe , any alteration of another can intitle him to the denomination of an Epick Poet himself : tho ' no man in this age feems more ...
35. oldal
... lefs her own ; of which her remarks upon Homer are an example , where Euftathius is tranfcribed ten times for once that he is quoted . Nor is there at all more depth or learning in those upon Terence , Plautus , ( or where they were ...
... lefs her own ; of which her remarks upon Homer are an example , where Euftathius is tranfcribed ten times for once that he is quoted . Nor is there at all more depth or learning in those upon Terence , Plautus , ( or where they were ...
39. oldal
... lefs than I do . No creature has better natural difpofitions , or would act more rightly or reasonably in every duty , did the act by herself , or from herfelf ; but you know it is the misfortune of that family to be governed like a ...
... lefs than I do . No creature has better natural difpofitions , or would act more rightly or reasonably in every duty , did the act by herself , or from herfelf ; but you know it is the misfortune of that family to be governed like a ...
41. oldal
... lefs man than my Lord Oxford , and I expect to fee no greater in my time . After all , if your Lordship will tell my Lord Harley that I must not do this , you may depend upon a fup- preffion of these verfes ( the only copy whereof I ...
... lefs man than my Lord Oxford , and I expect to fee no greater in my time . After all , if your Lordship will tell my Lord Harley that I must not do this , you may depend upon a fup- preffion of these verfes ( the only copy whereof I ...
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93. oldal - I communicate. I hope all churches and all governments are so far of God as they are rightly understood and rightly administered ; and where they are or may be wrong, I leave it to God alone to mend or reform them, which, whenever He does, it must be by greater instruments than I am.
13. oldal - The inhabitants of this delicious isle, as they are without riches and honours, so are they without the vices and follies that attend them ; and were they but as much strangers to revenge as they are to avarice and ambition, they might in fact answer the poetical notions of the golden age.
127. oldal - Remember it was at such a time that the greatest lights of antiquity dazzled and blazed the most, in their retreat, in their exile, or in their death : but why do I talk of dazzling or blazing? it was then that they did good, that they gave light, and that they became guides to mankind.
127. oldal - I hope you will think lefs of the time paft than of the future ; as the former has been lefs kind to you than the latter infallibly will be. Do not envy the world your Studies ; they will tend to the benefit of men againft whom you can have no complaint, I mean of all Pofterity : and perhaps at your time of life, nothing elfe is worth your care.
12. oldal - ... the common kinds, as cherries, apricots, peaches, &c. they produce oranges, limes, almonds, pomegranates, figs, water-melons, and many other fruits unknown to our climates, which lie every where open to the paflenger.
130. oldal - Lord Bolingbroke is now returned (as I hope) to take me with all his other hereditary rights...
34. oldal - Catechism, as a kind of hint of the order of time in which they are to be taken.
104. oldal - Spencer ; and I will take care to make good in every respect what I said to him when living ; particularly as to the triplet he wrote for his own epitaph ; which, while we were in good terms, I promised him should never appear on his tomb while I was dean of Westminster.
13. oldal - ... pasture to flocks of goats and sheep, and the top is a sandy pointed rock, from which you have the finest prospect in the world, surveying, at one view, besides several pleasant islands lying at your feet, a tract of Italy about three hundred miles in length, from the promontory of Antium to the Cape of Palinurus...