The Works of Alexander Pope, Esq: In Four Volumes Complete. With His Last Corrections, Additions, and Improvements. Carefully Collated and Compared with Former Editions: Together with Notes from the Various Critics and CommentatorsEditor, and sold, 1778 |
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... Pleasure of being abused in Company with worthy 305 306 Men 35. From Dr. Swift . His Manner of living with a Friend in the Coun- try . The Death of Mr. Congreve , & c . 308 36. Dr. Swift to Lord Bolingbroke . Exhortation to him to write ...
... Pleasure of being abused in Company with worthy 305 306 Men 35. From Dr. Swift . His Manner of living with a Friend in the Coun- try . The Death of Mr. Congreve , & c . 308 36. Dr. Swift to Lord Bolingbroke . Exhortation to him to write ...
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... Pleasure of being abufed in Company with worthy + Men 7178 306 308 35. From Dr. Swift . His Manner of living with a Friend in the Coun- try . The Death of Mr. Congreve , & c . 36. Dr. Swift to Lord Bolingbroke . Exhortation to him to ...
... Pleasure of being abufed in Company with worthy + Men 7178 306 308 35. From Dr. Swift . His Manner of living with a Friend in the Coun- try . The Death of Mr. Congreve , & c . 36. Dr. Swift to Lord Bolingbroke . Exhortation to him to ...
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... Pleasures of his Conversation . Of Dr. Arbu'bnot's Decay of Health . Of the Nature of moral and philofophical Writings 38x On the Death of Friends 74. From Dr. Swift . 75. From the fame . 383 384 On the Offence taken at their Writings ...
... Pleasures of his Conversation . Of Dr. Arbu'bnot's Decay of Health . Of the Nature of moral and philofophical Writings 38x On the Death of Friends 74. From Dr. Swift . 75. From the fame . 383 384 On the Offence taken at their Writings ...
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... pleasures . When a fmart fit of ficknefs tells me this four- vy tenement of my body will fall in a little time , I am e'en as unconcern'd as was that honeft Hibernian , who being in bed in the great ftorm fome years ago , and told the ...
... pleasures . When a fmart fit of ficknefs tells me this four- vy tenement of my body will fall in a little time , I am e'en as unconcern'd as was that honeft Hibernian , who being in bed in the great ftorm fome years ago , and told the ...
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... pleasure to your readers . You gave me leave once to take the liberty of a friend , in advising you not to content yourself with one half of the nation for your admirers , when you might command them all . If I might take the freedom to ...
... pleasure to your readers . You gave me leave once to take the liberty of a friend , in advising you not to content yourself with one half of the nation for your admirers , when you might command them all . If I might take the freedom to ...
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Addiſon Adieu affure againſt almoft anſwer becauſe befides beft believe beſt Bishop of ROCHESTER cafe caufe converfation deferves defign defire Duchefs Dunciad eafy efteem excufe fafe faid fame fatire feems feen fenfe ferve fervice fhall fhew fhould fide fince fincere firft firſt fome fomething foon forry fpirit friendſhip ftate ftill fubject fuch fuffer fure give greateſt himſelf Homer honeft honour hope houfe houſe Iliad juft juftice juſt Lady laft leaft leaſt lefs LETTER Lintot live Lord Lord Bolingbroke mind moft moſt muft muſt myſelf never obferve obliged occafion opinion perfon pleafed pleas'd pleaſe pleaſure Poet poetry Pope prefent profe reafon refpect ſhall ſmall ſuch Swift tell thefe themſelves theſe thing thofe thoſe thought thouſand thro tranflation Twickenham uſe verfes verſes Whig whofe wifh wiſh worfe writ write yourſelf
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Page 20 - The world recedes; it disappears! Heaven opens on my eyes! my ears With sounds seraphic ring: Lend, lend your wings! I mount! I fly! O Grave! where is thy victory? O Death! where is thy sting?
Page 264 - I hate and detest that animal called man, although I heartily love John, Peter, Thomas, and so forth.
Page 14 - ... not very common to young men, that the attractions of the world have not dazzled me very much ; and I...
Page 305 - 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.
Page 107 - The bottom is paved with simple pebble, as is also the adjoining walk up the wilderness to the temple, in the natural taste, agreeing not ill with the little dripping murmur, and the aquatic idea of the whole place.
Page 91 - ... as a kind of hint of the order of time in which they are to be taken.
Page 365 - All my acquaintance tell me, they know not above three families where they can occafionally dine in a whole year : Dr. Delany is the only gentleman I know, who keeps one certain day in the week to entertain...
Page 374 - ... I've been long ago, of my Wit ; my fyftem is a fhort one, and my circle narrow. Imagination has no limits, and that is...
Page 243 - Curll, when I was in credit; but the rogue would never allow me a fair stroke at them, although my penknife was ready drawn and sharp.
Page 167 - DEAR MR. GAY, — Welcome to your native soil, welcome to your friends, thrice welcome to me, whether returned in glory, blest with court interest, the love and familiarity of the great, and filled with agreeable hopes ; or melancholy with dejection, contemplative of the changes of fortune, and doubtful for the future. Whether returned a triumphant Whig or a...