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But it was his peculiar ill - fortune to create a Jealousy in One , whom not only many good offices done by our Author to him and his friends , but a fimilitude of genius and ftudies might have inclined to a reciprocal affection and ...
But it was his peculiar ill - fortune to create a Jealousy in One , whom not only many good offices done by our Author to him and his friends , but a fimilitude of genius and ftudies might have inclined to a reciprocal affection and ...
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It was cultivated , on both fides , with all the marks of mutual esteem and affection , and conftant intercourfe of good offices . Mr. Addison was always commending moderation , warned his friend against a blind attachment to party ...
It was cultivated , on both fides , with all the marks of mutual esteem and affection , and conftant intercourfe of good offices . Mr. Addison was always commending moderation , warned his friend against a blind attachment to party ...
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It was cultivated , on both fides , with all the marks of mutual esteem and affection , and conftant intercourfe of good offices . Mr. Addifon was always commending moderation , warned his friend against a blind attachment to party ...
It was cultivated , on both fides , with all the marks of mutual esteem and affection , and conftant intercourfe of good offices . Mr. Addifon was always commending moderation , warned his friend against a blind attachment to party ...
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For the Poet had all the warmth of affection for the great Lawyer to whom it is addreffed : and , indeed , no man ever more deserved to have a Poet for his friend . In the obtaining of which , as neither Vanity , Party , nor Fear ...
For the Poet had all the warmth of affection for the great Lawyer to whom it is addreffed : and , indeed , no man ever more deserved to have a Poet for his friend . In the obtaining of which , as neither Vanity , Party , nor Fear ...
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Southcot with great affection and folicitude applied to Dr. Radcliffe for his advice . And not content with that , he rode down poft , to Mr. Pope , who was then an hundred miles from London , with the Doctor's directions ; which had ...
Southcot with great affection and folicitude applied to Dr. Radcliffe for his advice . And not content with that , he rode down poft , to Mr. Pope , who was then an hundred miles from London , with the Doctor's directions ; which had ...
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Page 9 - A virgin tragedy, an orphan muse.' If I dislike it, 'Furies, death and rage!' If I approve, 'Commend it to the stage.
Page 24 - Who but must laugh if such a man there be ? Who would not weep if Atticus were he?
Page 16 - Fed with soft Dedication all day long, Horace and he went hand in hand in song. His library, where busts of poets dead...
Page 275 - Seen him, uncumber'd with the venal tribe, Smile without art, and win without a bribe. Would he oblige me? let me only find, He does not think me what he thinks mankind.
Page 8 - And curses wit, and poetry, and Pope. Friend to my life ! (which did not you prolong, The world had wanted many an idle song) What drop or nostrum can this plague remove?
Page 29 - Yet why? that father held it for a rule, It was a sin to call our neighbour fool: That harmless mother thought no wife a whore: Hear this, and spare his family, James Moore! Unspotted names, and memorable long! If there be force in virtue, or in song.
Page 43 - My head and heart thus flowing thro' my quill, Verse-man or prose-man, term me which you will, Papist or Protestant, or both between, Like good Erasmus in an honest mean, In moderation placing all my glory, While Tories call me Whig, and Whigs a Tory.
Page 12 - It is" the slaver kills, and not the bite. A fool quite angry is quite innocent : Alas ! 'tis ten times worse when they repent. One dedicates in high heroic prose, And ridicules beyond a hundred foes : One from all Grub-street will my fame defend, And, more abusive, calls himself my friend. This prints my letters, that expects a bribe, And others roar aloud,
Page 31 - Me, let the tender office long engage To rock the cradle of reposing age, With lenient arts extend a mother's breath, Make languor smile, and smooth the bed of death; Explore the thought, explain the asking eye, And keep a while one parent from the sky ! On cares like these, if length of days attend, May Heaven, to bless those days, preserve my friend!
Page 9 - Lintot, dull rogue! will think your price too much." "Not, sir, if you revise it, and retouch.
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| Title | The Works of Alexander Pope, Esq: Satires, &c Volume 4 of The Works of Alexander Pope, Esq: In Nine Volumes Complete, with His Last Corrections, Additions, and Improvements, as They Were Delivered to the Editor a Little Before His Death, William Warburton (Bp. of Gloucester) |
| Author | Alexander Pope |
| Publisher | J. and P. Knapton, 1752 |
| Original from | the New York Public Library |
| Digitized | Oct 22, 2005 |
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