 ... me to live agreeably in the town, or contentedly in the country, which is really all the difference I set between an easy fortune and a small one.  Letters - Page 294by Alexander Pope - 1751Full view - About this book
 | Alexander Pope - 1735 - 468 pages
...indeed a nJjlgh ftrain of generofity in yous to think e?pf making rne eafy all my life, only be,J,cauf<? I have been fo happy as to divert you fome few hours: But it 1 may have leave to add, it is becaule you think me no enemy to my native country, there will appear... | |
 | Alexander Pope - English literature - 1751 - 310 pages
...difference I fet between an eafy fortune and a fmall one. It. is indeed a high ftrain of gencrofity in you, to think of making me eafy all my life, only becaufe I have beenfo happy as to divert you fome few hours : but if I may have leave to add, it is becaufe you think... | |
 | British - 1762 - 410 pages
...troublefome or follicitous, it "~ rauft not be out of expectation, butout of gratitude. It is, indeed, a high ftrain of generofity in you, to think of making me eafy all my life, only beCaufe I have been fa happy as to divert you a few hours ; but, if I mayhave leave to add, it is becaufe you think me... | |
 | Owen Ruffhead - Poets, English - 1769 - 600 pages
...habit of indulgence, the want of it would prove doubly inconvenient to him ; if, " deed a high (train of generofity in you to think of making " me eafy all my life, only becaufe I have been fo happy to " divert you fome few hours; but if I may have leave to *' add, it is becaufe you think me no enemy... | |
 | Owen Ruffhead - Biography - 1769 - 600 pages
...fuch a habit of indulgence, the want of it would prove doubly inconvenient to him ; if, *' deed a high ftrain of generofity in you to think of making " me eafy all my life, only hecaufe I have been fo happy to " divert you lome few hours; but if I may have leave to " add, it is... | |
 | Owen Ruffhead - Biography - 1769 - 592 pages
...prove doubly inconvenient to him ; if, " deed a h'gh ftrain of generofity in you to think of malcin"" me eafy all my life, only becaufe I have been fo happy to " divert you fotne few hours ; but if I may have leave to " add, it is becaufe you think me no enemy... | |
 | Alexander Pope - English literature - 1770 - 402 pages
...which i* really all the difference I fet between an eafy fortune and a fmall one". It is indeed a high ftrain of generofity in you, to think of making me...only becaufe I have been fo happy as to divert you fcrnie few hours : but if I may have leave to add, it is becauie you think me no enemy to my native... | |
 | British Plutarch - Great Britain - 1776 - 350 pages
...or felicitous, it muft not be out of expectation, but out of gratitude. It is, indeed, a high {train of generofity in you, to think of making me eafy all...only becaufe I have been fo happy as to divert you a few hours ; but, if I may have leave to add, it is becaufe you think me no enemy to my native country,... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1778 - 464 pages
...which is really all the difference) Ifet between an eafy fortune -and a fmall It:ir indeed a- high ftrain of generofity in you, to think of making me...as to divert you fome few hours : but if I may have lesve to add, it is becaufe you think me no enemy to niy native country, there will appear a better... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1781 - 516 pages
...is really all the difference I fet be" tween an eafy fortune and a fmall one. It " is indeed a high ftrain of generofity in you " to think of making me...my life, " only becaufe I have been fo happy as to di" vert you fome few hours ; but, if 1 may " have leave to add it is becaufe you think " me no enemy... | |
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