An Historical Rhapsody on Mr. PopeT. Cadell, 1782 - 95 pages |
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... Lady in the three Kingdoms . The writer hopes , that the influence of her Royal Name will introduce it into the highest company , and that it may have the good fortune of obtaining the more friends , on the account of Her , who has not ...
... Lady in the three Kingdoms . The writer hopes , that the influence of her Royal Name will introduce it into the highest company , and that it may have the good fortune of obtaining the more friends , on the account of Her , who has not ...
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... Lady M. W. Montague , which all his friends complained of . His traditional warmth to that Lady , who in a few points resembled Homer's Penelope , and whom Pope poffibly might have in his eye , in his verfion , ( A woman lovelieft of ...
... Lady M. W. Montague , which all his friends complained of . His traditional warmth to that Lady , who in a few points resembled Homer's Penelope , and whom Pope poffibly might have in his eye , in his verfion , ( A woman lovelieft of ...
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... Ladies in a cloyfter ) than from the pen of the wife of Abelard . All reformers fhould be better than other men . But it often happens ... Lady Wortley , for he ad- dreffes ་ ་ dreffes feveral complimentary ftanzas to her ; and [ 40 ] -
... Ladies in a cloyfter ) than from the pen of the wife of Abelard . All reformers fhould be better than other men . But it often happens ... Lady Wortley , for he ad- dreffes ་ ་ dreffes feveral complimentary ftanzas to her ; and [ 40 ] -
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... Lady would be an agreeable pre- fent to the reader . If the writer of this sketch were in poffeffion of materials , he would confider the putting them together a pleasing employment for his pen . There is no doubt of the authenticity of ...
... Lady would be an agreeable pre- fent to the reader . If the writer of this sketch were in poffeffion of materials , he would confider the putting them together a pleasing employment for his pen . There is no doubt of the authenticity of ...
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... Lady afterwards quarrelled , and wrote and faid the cruelleft things of one another ' they could think of ; for friendship with wits of different principles is very fubject to mor- tality . Lady Mary affifted in a fatire against him ...
... Lady afterwards quarrelled , and wrote and faid the cruelleft things of one another ' they could think of ; for friendship with wits of different principles is very fubject to mor- tality . Lady Mary affifted in a fatire against him ...
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Page 18 - The passing through the gloom from the grotto to the opening day, the retiring and again assembling shades, the dusky groves, the larger lawn, and the solemnity of the termination at the cypresses that lead up to his mother's tomb, are managed with exquisite judgment ; and though Lord Peterborough assisted him " To form his quincunx, and to rank his vines...
Page 65 - The centre mov'd, a circle straight succeeds, Another still, and still another spreads ; Friend, parent, neighbour, first it will embrace ; His country next, and next all human race ; Wide and more wide, th...
Page 124 - I knew a very wise man so much of Sir Chr — 's sentiment, that he believed if a man were permitted to make all the ballads, he need not care who should make the laws of a nation.
Page 54 - Asiaticks, which are reposited in our publick libraries, were printed with the usual advantage of notes and illustrations, and if the languages of the Eastern nations were studied in our great seminaries of learning, where every other branch of useful knowledge is taught to perfection, a new and ample field would be opened for speculation; we should have a more extensive insight into the history of the human mind ; we should be furnished with a new set of images and similitudes; and a number of excellent...
Page 90 - As to the future grandeur of America, and its being a rising empire under one head, whether republican or monarchical, it is one of the idlest and most visionary notions that ever was conceived even by writers of romance.
Page 68 - England, and at present of all the world. I hope you are acquainted enough with the English tongue to be sensible of all the charms of his works. For my part I look...
Page 98 - Tire little nightingale. His manners were ' delicate, eafy, and engaging : and he treated his friends with a politenefs that charmed, and a generofity that was much to his honour. Every gueft was made happy within his doors. Pleafure dwelt under his roof, and t Elegance Elegance prefided at his table.
Page 42 - That man has a malignant and ungenerous heart ; and he is base enough to assume the mask of a moralist, in order to decry human nature, and to give a decent vent to his hatred of man and woman kind.
Page 99 - 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 36 - I feem the higher. In Pope I cannot read a line, But with a figh I wifh it mine : When he can in one couplet fix More fenfe, than I can do in fix, It gives me fuch a jealous fit, I cry, pox take him and his wit.