The Works of Alexander Pope, Esq: With Notes and Illustrations by Himself and Others. To which are Added, a New Life of the Author, an Estimate of His Poetical Character and Writings, and Occasional Remarks,C. and J. Rivington; T. Cadell; Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green; J. Cuthell; J. Nunn; ... [and 25 others in London]; and Deighton and Sons, Cambridge; and A. Black, and J. Fairbairn, Edinburgh., 1824 |
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... pleased with it , I have not yet repented my seeing it . Nothing of that kind ever was more magnificent ; and I can easily believe , what I am told , that the decorations and habits cost the emperor thirty thousand pounds sterling . The ...
... pleased with it , I have not yet repented my seeing it . Nothing of that kind ever was more magnificent ; and I can easily believe , what I am told , that the decorations and habits cost the emperor thirty thousand pounds sterling . The ...
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... pleased with their enter- tainment , and assured me this was a celebrated piece . I shall conclude my letter with this re- markable relation , very well worthy the serious consideration of Mr. Collier . I will not trouble you with ...
... pleased with their enter- tainment , and assured me this was a celebrated piece . I shall conclude my letter with this re- markable relation , very well worthy the serious consideration of Mr. Collier . I will not trouble you with ...
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... pleased and informed me the minute you answered . I must now be contented with more slow returns . However , it is some pleasure , that your thoughts upon paper will be a more lasting possession to me , and that I shall no longer have ...
... pleased and informed me the minute you answered . I must now be contented with more slow returns . However , it is some pleasure , that your thoughts upon paper will be a more lasting possession to me , and that I shall no longer have ...
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... pleased to hear of such favourable dispo- sitions in the people , but when we came hither , we found the governor had been ill informed , and the real truth of the story to be this . The late Bassa fell under the displeasure of his ...
... pleased to hear of such favourable dispo- sitions in the people , but when we came hither , we found the governor had been ill informed , and the real truth of the story to be this . The late Bassa fell under the displeasure of his ...
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... pleased with them , I really believe I should learn to read Arabic , if I was to stay here a few months . He has a very good library of their books of all kinds ; and as he tells me , spends the greatest part of his life there . I pass ...
... pleased with them , I really believe I should learn to read Arabic , if I was to stay here a few months . He has a very good library of their books of all kinds ; and as he tells me , spends the greatest part of his life there . I pass ...
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Página 230 - His figure was beautiful ; but his manner was irresistible, by either man or woman. It was by this engaging, graceful manner, that he was enabled, during all his war, to connect the various and jarring powers of the Grand Alliance, and to carry them on to the main object of the war, notwithstanding their private and separate views, jealousies, and wrongheadednesses.
Página 102 - 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.
Página 99 - I am confident it is the prettiest kind of white soul in the universe. But I forget whom I am talking to; you may possibly by this time believe, according to the prophet, that you have none ; if so, show me that which comes next to a soul; you may easily put it upon a poor ignorant Christian for a soul, and please him as well with it; — I mean your heart; — Mahomet, I think, allows you hearts; which (together with fine eyes and other agreeable equivalents) are worth all the souls on this side...
Página 70 - I no longer look upon Theocritus as a romantic writer ; he has only given a plain image of the way of life amongst the peasants of his country ; who, before oppression had reduced them to want, were, I suppose, all employed as the better sort of them are now. I don't doubt, had he been born a Briton, but his Idylliums had been filled with descriptions of threshing and churning...
Página 225 - English stages, and it is only by a blind confidence in the reputation of Milton that a drama can be praised in which the intermediate parts have neither cause nor consequence, neither hasten nor retard the catastrophe.
Página 71 - The description of the belt of Menelaus exactly resembles those that are now worn by the great men, fastened before with broad golden clasps, and embroidered round with rich -work. The snowy veil, that Helen throws over her face, is still fashionable ; and I never see half a dozen of old Bashas (as I do very often) with their reverend beards, sitting basking in the sun, but I recollect good King Priam and his counsellors.
Página 209 - Spencer ; and I will take care to make good in every respect what I said to him when living ; particularly as to the triplet he wrote for his own epitaph ; which, while we were in good terms, I promised him should never appear on his tomb while I was dean of Westminster.
Página 70 - I read over your Homer here with an infinite pleasure, and find several little passages explained, that I did not before entirely comprehend the beauty of: many of the customs, and much of the dress then in fashion, being yet retained. I...
Página 238 - If you do, my lord, it is but lately. May I beg to know what new light or arguments have prevailed with you now, to entertain an opinion so contrary to that which you entertained of that book all the former part of your life...
Página 110 - He showed where stood the triple rows of butts of sack, and where were ranged the bottles of tent for toasts in the morning.