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... thought to want legs than brains . But I suppose whatever we said in the heat of discourse is not the real opinion we have of each other , since otherwise you would have scorned to subscribe yourself , as I do at present , Sir , your ...
... thought to want legs than brains . But I suppose whatever we said in the heat of discourse is not the real opinion we have of each other , since otherwise you would have scorned to subscribe yourself , as I do at present , Sir , your ...
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... thought to be fictitious ; ( 2 ) Cythereia , 1723 ; ( 3 ) the Longleat MS . , written some time before 1724 ; ( 4 ) Curll's Miscellany , 1727 ; ( 5 ) another fragment , published in the Miscellany of 1727. For the first , see Pope's ...
... thought to be fictitious ; ( 2 ) Cythereia , 1723 ; ( 3 ) the Longleat MS . , written some time before 1724 ; ( 4 ) Curll's Miscellany , 1727 ; ( 5 ) another fragment , published in the Miscellany of 1727. For the first , see Pope's ...
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... thought it was unnecessary , " cried the other , " to a man of your infinite learning : besides , you always told me , you perfectly understood my meaning . " Upon this I thought the critic looked a little out of countenance , and ...
... thought it was unnecessary , " cried the other , " to a man of your infinite learning : besides , you always told me , you perfectly understood my meaning . " Upon this I thought the critic looked a little out of countenance , and ...
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... thought rather barbarous . To accomplished people there it presented itself partly because of their own polite ignorance much as America still presents itself to untravelled Europeans . The same feeling of national pride which now and ...
... thought rather barbarous . To accomplished people there it presented itself partly because of their own polite ignorance much as America still presents itself to untravelled Europeans . The same feeling of national pride which now and ...
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... thought worth encouraging . Through- out the poem , too , appears a restrained personal note . son's sense of humor , sometimes momentarily evident in his notes of travel , kept him , at least as compared with other panegyrical poets of ...
... thought worth encouraging . Through- out the poem , too , appears a restrained personal note . son's sense of humor , sometimes momentarily evident in his notes of travel , kept him , at least as compared with other panegyrical poets of ...
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Side 60 - It was said of Socrates, that he brought Philosophy down from Heaven, to inhabit among Men; and I shall be ambitious to have it said of me, that I have brought Philosophy out of Closets and Libraries, Schools and Colleges, to dwell in Clubs and Assemblies, at Tea-Tables and in CoffeeHouses.
Side 153 - Cast thy eyes eastward, said he, and tell me what thou seest. I see, said I, a huge valley, and a prodigious tide of water rolling through it. The valley that thou seest, said he, is the vale of misery ; and the tide of water that thou seest, is part of the great tide of eternity. What is the reason...
Side 159 - A needless Alexandrine ends the song, That, like a wounded snake, drags its slow length along.
Side 11 - Here will I hold. If there's a power above us (And that there is, all Nature cries aloud Through all her works), he must delight in virtue ; And that which he delights in must be happy.
Side 47 - His tenants grow rich, his servants look satisfied, all the young women profess love to him, and the young men are glad of his company.
Side 319 - cries Partridge, with a contemptuous sneer, "why I could act as well as he myself. I am sure, if I had seen a ghost, I should have looked in the very same manner, and done just as he did.
Side 50 - He is very ready at that sort of discourse with which men usually entertain women. He has all his life dressed very well, and remembers habits as others do men. He can smile when one speaks to him, and laughs easily. He knows the history of every mode...
Side 12 - The stars shall fade away, the sun himself Grow dim with age, and Nature sink in years, But thou shalt flourish in immortal youth, Unhurt amidst the war of elements, The wreck of matter, and the crush of worlds.
Side 47 - But being ill-used by the above-mentioned widow, he was very serious for a year and a half ; and though, his temper being naturally jovial, he at last got over it, he grew careless of himself, and never dressed afterwards. He continues to wear a coat and doublet of the same cut that were in fashion at the time of his repulse...
Side 155 - Look no more, said he, on man in the first stage of his existence, in his setting out for eternity; but cast thine eye on that thick mist into which the tide bears the several generations of mortals that fall into it.