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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Page 106
... plead a lawful excufe in behalf of a negligent corrofpondent , I have really a very good title to it . I cannot fay whether ' tis a felicity or unhappiness , that I am obliged at this time to give my whole application to Homer ; when ...
... plead a lawful excufe in behalf of a negligent corrofpondent , I have really a very good title to it . I cannot fay whether ' tis a felicity or unhappiness , that I am obliged at this time to give my whole application to Homer ; when ...
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... plead Two good ones , for this conduct : the one that I want the Talent of spinning a thousand lines in a Day ( which , I think , is as much Time as this fubject deferves ) and the other , that I take your Lordship's Verje to be as much ...
... plead Two good ones , for this conduct : the one that I want the Talent of spinning a thousand lines in a Day ( which , I think , is as much Time as this fubject deferves ) and the other , that I take your Lordship's Verje to be as much ...
Page 265
... pleads yours , and becomes your Advocate while he appeals to you as his Judge : You will do the fame on your part ; and I , and the rest of your com- mon Friends , fhall have great Juftice to expect from two fuch righteous Tribunals ...
... pleads yours , and becomes your Advocate while he appeals to you as his Judge : You will do the fame on your part ; and I , and the rest of your com- mon Friends , fhall have great Juftice to expect from two fuch righteous Tribunals ...
Page 358
... plead but abundance of Merit , and there goes an ugly obfervation , that the Humour of ladies is apt to change . Now , Madam , if I fhould go to Aimfbury with a great load of Merit , and your Grace happen to be out of humour , and will ...
... plead but abundance of Merit , and there goes an ugly obfervation , that the Humour of ladies is apt to change . Now , Madam , if I fhould go to Aimfbury with a great load of Merit , and your Grace happen to be out of humour , and will ...
Page 423
... plead my excuse in not doing it to you . I know it is not ( I feel it is not ) needful to repeat affurances of the true and con- ftant friendship and efteem 1 bear you . Honeft and in- genuous minds are fure of each other's ; the tye is ...
... plead my excuse in not doing it to you . I know it is not ( I feel it is not ) needful to repeat affurances of the true and con- ftant friendship and efteem 1 bear you . Honeft and in- genuous minds are fure of each other's ; the tye is ...
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Common terms and phrases
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
Popular passages
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...