The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope: With a Life, Volume 1Little, Brown, 1853 - 363 pages |
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Page xviii
... thought any man so very cautious and sus- picious , as not to credit his own experience of a friend . Indeed , to believe nobody , may be a maxim of safety , but not so much of honesty . There is but one way I know of conversing safely ...
... thought any man so very cautious and sus- picious , as not to credit his own experience of a friend . Indeed , to believe nobody , may be a maxim of safety , but not so much of honesty . There is but one way I know of conversing safely ...
Page xix
... thought it was " not flattery at all to say , that Virgil had written nothing so good at his age , " and requested Wycherley to make him acquainted with our poet . Ere long , Pope had to reckon Walsh among the kindest of his friends ...
... thought it was " not flattery at all to say , that Virgil had written nothing so good at his age , " and requested Wycherley to make him acquainted with our poet . Ere long , Pope had to reckon Walsh among the kindest of his friends ...
Page xxxii
... thoughts will be perpetually waiting upon you , when you never hear of me nor them . Your own guardian angels cannot be more constant , nor more silent . I beg you will never cease to think me your friend , that you may not be guilty of ...
... thoughts will be perpetually waiting upon you , when you never hear of me nor them . Your own guardian angels cannot be more constant , nor more silent . I beg you will never cease to think me your friend , that you may not be guilty of ...
Page xxxviii
... thoughts for some years : the friend of his youth , Sir William Trumbull , had earnestly ad- vised him to undertake it , and the more influ- ential voices of Addison and Lord Lansdowne had recently urged him to the attempt . At this ...
... thoughts for some years : the friend of his youth , Sir William Trumbull , had earnestly ad- vised him to undertake it , and the more influ- ential voices of Addison and Lord Lansdowne had recently urged him to the attempt . At this ...
Page xli
... thoughts of it in the day , they would frighten me in the night . I sometimes still even dream of being engaged in that translation ; and got about half way through it ; and being embarrassed , and under dread of never completing it ...
... thoughts of it in the day , they would frighten me in the night . I sometimes still even dream of being engaged in that translation ; and got about half way through it ; and being embarrassed , and under dread of never completing it ...
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