The Works of Alexander Pope, Esq. In Verse and Prose: Containing the Principal Notes of Drs. Warburton and Warton: Illustrations, and Critical and Explanatory Remarks, by Johnson, Wakefield, A. Chalmers, F.S.A. and Others. To which are Added, Now First Published, Some Original Letters, with Additional Observations, and Memoirs of the Life of the Author, Volume 10J. Johnson, J. Nichols and Son, R. Baldwin, F. and C. Rivington, W. Otridge and Son ... [and 24 others], 1806 |
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Adieu affectionate affure Afide againſt almoſt anſwer becauſe Bell-yard beſt buſineſs CLINKET DEAR SIR defire dine eſteem fafe faid fame fatire fend fent fervant fervices fhall fhould fifter fince fincerely firſt Foffile fome foon fooner Fortescue FOSSILE friendſhip fubject fuch fure give greateſt happineſs himſelf hope houſe humble fervant huſband John Searl juft juſt Lady laft laſt leaſt lefs LETTER Lincoln's London Lord Lord Bolingbroke Lord Cornbury Madam MARTHA BLOUNT moft moſt muft muſt myſelf NAUTILUS night occafion paffed paffion paſs perfon pleaſe pleaſure PLOTWELL Poet Poetry Pope Pope's POSSUM Pray prefent promiſe reaſon reſpect Sarfnet ſay ſee ſhall ſhe SIR TREMENDOUS ſpeak ſpirit ſtate ſtay ſtill tell thefe theſe thing thofe thoſe thou told town TOWNLEY tranflation Twitnam UNDERPLOT underſtand uſed vifit wife wifh wiſh write yeſterday yourſelf
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Page 39 - ... condition. I write an hour or two every morning, then ride out a hunting upon the Downs, eat heartily, talk tender sentiments with Lord B., or draw plans for houses and gardens, open avenues, cut glades, plant firs, contrive water-works, all very fine and beautiful in our own imagination. At night we play at commerce, and play pretty high : I do more, I...
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Page 51 - I think he must be lost in this attempt, and attempt it he will. He has with him, day after day, not only all his relations, but every creature of the town of Southampton that pleases. He lies on his couch and receives them, though he says little. When his pains come, he desires them to walk out, but invites them to stay and dine or sup, &c.
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Page 127 - Gay, and had almost finished the letter; but by mistake I took up this instead of it, and so the six lines in a hook are all to him, and therefore you must read them to him, for I will not be at the trouble to write them over again. My greatest concern in the matter is, that I am afraid I continue in love with you, which is hard after near six months
Page 129 - This confinement, together with the mourning, 1 has enabled me to be very easy in my chair-hire: for a dyed black gown and a scoured white one have done my business very well; and they are now just fit for Petersham, where we talk of going in three weeks: and I am not without hopes I shall have the same squire I had last year.
Page 181 - I wish I could tell you any agreeable news of what your heart is concerned in ; but I have a sort of quarrel to Mrs. H for not loving herself so well as she does her friends : for those she makes happy, but not herself. There is an air of...
Page 247 - Let no one fool engross it, or confine A common blessing ! now 'tis yours, now mine. But poets in all ages had the care To keep this cap for such as will, to wear. Our author has it now (for every wit...
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