Anecdotes, observations, and characters of books and men. Collected from the conversation of Mr. Pope, and other eminent persons of his time ... Now first published from the original papers, with notes and a life of the author, by S. W. Singer. (Appendix. Letters to Mr. Spence.)J.R. Smith, 1858 - Počet stran: 396 |
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... thousand vain efforts for improvements , are best when they return to their first simplicity . - P . A sketch or analysis of the first principle of each art , with their first consequences , might be a thing of most excellent service ...
... thousand vain efforts for improvements , are best when they return to their first simplicity . - P . A sketch or analysis of the first principle of each art , with their first consequences , might be a thing of most excellent service ...
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... thousand pounds . He had therefore long resolved to marry ; in order to make a settlement from the estate , to pay off his debts with his wife's fortune and " to plague his damned nephew , " as he used to express it . This was just ...
... thousand pounds . He had therefore long resolved to marry ; in order to make a settlement from the estate , to pay off his debts with his wife's fortune and " to plague his damned nephew , " as he used to express it . This was just ...
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... thousand can act by this motive ? " — R.- " True , sir ; but those that can will act best : you can't reach the moon if you aim at her ; but yet will shoot higher than if you aimed at a bush . ” — H. — The great point is to get rid of ...
... thousand can act by this motive ? " — R.- " True , sir ; but those that can will act best : you can't reach the moon if you aim at her ; but yet will shoot higher than if you aimed at a bush . ” — H. — The great point is to get rid of ...
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... thousand pities that man is not ill - natured ! that one might kick him out of company . " - P . When Clement the Eleventh had declared in one of his decrees , " that any one who held that grace might not be had out of the pale of the ...
... thousand pities that man is not ill - natured ! that one might kick him out of company . " - P . When Clement the Eleventh had declared in one of his decrees , " that any one who held that grace might not be had out of the pale of the ...
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... . - It is true they have had astronomy , * Additions from MS . B. - Eye instead of I. — It is not clear whether Swift or Lockier said this . - Editor . у м gunpowder , and printing , for perhaps these two thousand SECTION II . 1730-32 . 51.
... . - It is true they have had astronomy , * Additions from MS . B. - Eye instead of I. — It is not clear whether Swift or Lockier said this . - Editor . у м gunpowder , and printing , for perhaps these two thousand SECTION II . 1730-32 . 51.
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Strana 104 - He began on it ; and when first he mentioned it to Swift, the doctor did not much like the project. As he carried it on, he showed what he wrote to both of us ; and we now and then gave a correction or a word or two of advice, but it was wholly of his own writing.
Strana 24 - I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the sea-shore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.
Strana xxxi - That's very strange ; but, if you had not supped, I must have got something for you. Let me see, what should I have had ? A couple of lobsters ; ay, that would have done very well ; two shillings ; tarts, a shilling ; but you will drink a glass of wine with me, though you supped so much before your usual time only to spare my pocket I' ' No, we had rather talk with you than drink with you.
Strana 25 - Wise men have said are wearisome; who reads Incessantly, and to his reading brings not A spirit and judgment equal or superior (And what he brings, what needs he elsewhere seek) Uncertain and unsettled still remains, Deep versed in books and shallow in himself, Crude or intoxicate, collecting toys, And trifles for choice matters, worth a sponge; As children gathering pebbles on the shore.
Strana 162 - tis true — this truth you lovers know — In vain my structures rise, my gardens grow ; In vain fair Thames reflects the double scenes Of hanging mountains, and of sloping greens: Joy lives not here ; to happier seats it flies, And only dwells where Wortley casts her eyes.
Strana 383 - THE ILIADS OF HOMER, Prince of Poets, never before in any Language truly translated, with a Comment on some of his chief Places. Done according to the Greek by GEORGE CHAPMAN, with Introduction and Notes by the Rev. RICHARD HOOPER. 2 vols.
Strana 213 - To answer your question as to Mr. Hughes ; what he wanted in genius, he made up as an honest man ; but he was of the class you think him.
Strana 228 - In the morning, after the priest had given him the last sacraments, he said, "There is nothing that is meritorious but virtue and friendship, and indeed friendship itself is only a part of virtue.
Strana 86 - All you need do (says he) is to leave them just as they are; call on Lord Halifax two or three months hence, thank him for his kind observations on those passages, and then read them to him as altered. I have known him much longer than you have, and will be answerable for the event.
Strana 263 - you have the honour of seeing the two greatest men in the world." — "I don't know how great men you may be," said the Guinea man, "but I don't like your looks. I have often bought a man much better than both of you, all muscles and bones, for ten guineas.