The Works of Alexander Pope, Volume 8J.F. Dove, St. John's Square, 1822 |
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... less importance , than to remove such and such mountains , alter the course of such and such rivers , place a large city on such a coast , and raze an- other in another country . I have set bounds to the sea , and said to the land ...
... less importance , than to remove such and such mountains , alter the course of such and such rivers , place a large city on such a coast , and raze an- other in another country . I have set bounds to the sea , and said to the land ...
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... less peevish in his sickness than he used to be in his health ; nei- ther much afraid of dying , nor ( which in him had been more likely ) much ashamed of marrying . The evening before he expired , he called his young wife to the ...
... less peevish in his sickness than he used to be in his health ; nei- ther much afraid of dying , nor ( which in him had been more likely ) much ashamed of marrying . The evening before he expired , he called his young wife to the ...
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... less shameful art of losing time . What we here call sci- ence and study , are little better : the greater number of arts to which we apply ourselves are mere groping in the dark ; and even the search of our most im- portant concerns in ...
... less shameful art of losing time . What we here call sci- ence and study , are little better : the greater number of arts to which we apply ourselves are mere groping in the dark ; and even the search of our most im- portant concerns in ...
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... less to your satisfaction ; for , if I know you right , your pleasure is greater in obliging me , than I can feel on my part , till it falls in my power to oblige you . Your remark , that the variety of opinions in poli- tics or ...
... less to your satisfaction ; for , if I know you right , your pleasure is greater in obliging me , than I can feel on my part , till it falls in my power to oblige you . Your remark , that the variety of opinions in poli- tics or ...
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... less agreeable , the violence , madness , and resentment , of modern War - makers ' , which are likely to prove ( to some peo- ple at least ) more fatal , than the same qualities in Achilles did to his unfortunate countrymen . Though ...
... less agreeable , the violence , madness , and resentment , of modern War - makers ' , which are likely to prove ( to some peo- ple at least ) more fatal , than the same qualities in Achilles did to his unfortunate countrymen . Though ...
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Page 329 - tis justice, soon or late, Mercy alike to kill or save. Virtue unmov'd can hear the call, And face the flash that melts the ball.
Page 210 - I thank God, her death was as easy as her life was innocent ; and as it cost her not a groan, or even a sigh, there is yet upon her countenance such an expression of tranquillity, nay, almost of pleasure, that it is even amiable to behold it.
Page 31 - Walls of which all the objects of the River, Hills, Woods, and Boats, are forming a moving Picture in their visible Radiations: And when you have a mind to light it up, it affords you a very different Scene: it is finished with Shells interspersed with Pieces of Looking-glass in angular forms; and in the Ceiling is a Star of the same Material, at which when a Lamp (of an orbicular Figure of thin Alabaster) is hung in the Middle, a thousand pointed Rays glitter and are reflected over the Place.
Page 153 - ... report the valuable ones of any other man. So the elegy I renounce. I condole with you from my heart, on the loss of so worthy a man, and a friend to us both. Now he is gone, I...
Page 149 - CONGREVE has merit of the highest kind ; he is an original writer, who borrowed neither the models of his plot nor the manner of his dialogue.
Page 154 - HAVE many years ago magnified in my own mind, and repeated to you, a ninth Beatitude, added to the eighth in the Scripture ; " Blessed is he who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed.
Page 272 - I know, would even marry Dennis for your sake, because he is your man, and loves his master. In short come down forthwith, or give me good reasons for delaying, though but for a day or two, by the next post. If I find them just, I will come up to you, though you...
Page 152 - As to any papers left behind him, I dare say they can be but few; for this reason, he never wrote out of vanity, or thought much of the applause of men.
Page 354 - I shall say nothing. I have given orders to be sent for, the first minute of your arrival (which I beg you will let them know at Mr. Jervas's). I am fourscore miles from London, a short journey compared to that I so often thought at least of undertaking, rather than die without seeing you again. Though the place I am in is such as I would not quit for the town, if I did not value you more than any, nay...
Page 328 - John (who never separated from her) sate by her side, having raked two or three heaps together to secure her. Immediately there was heard so loud a crack as if Heaven had burst asunder. The labourers, all solicitous for each other's safety, called to one another : ' those that were nearest our lovers, hearing no answer...