Mr. Pope's Literary Correspondence for Thirty Years; from 1704 to 1734. Being, a Collection of Letters, which Passed Between Him and Several Eminent Persons. Volume the FirstE. Curll, 1735 - 439 pages |
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
affure againſt almoſt Anfwer becauſe befides beft beſt call'd caufe converfation cou'd Dear Sir deferve defign defire eafy efteem Expreffion fafe faid fame fancy favour feems feen felf felves fenfe fent ferve feven feveral fhall fhort fhould fide fince fincere firft fome fomething fometimes foon fpeak Friend friendship ftill fuch fure give good-natur'd himſelf Homer honour hope Houſe juft kindneſs Lady laft leaft leaſt lefs Letter Lord Lord Burlington Mifcellany moft moſt muft muſt myſelf never obferve oblig'd obliging occafion opinion pafs Paftoral Perfon pleafing pleas'd pleaſe pleaſure Poem Poet Poetry POPE pray prefent publick reafon receiv'd reft Senfe ſhall Statius tell thefe themſelves theſe thing thofe thoſe thought thro tion Town Tranflation Twickenham uſe Verfes vifit Virgil Whig whofe wifh WILLIAM TRUMBULL wiſh wou'd writ write Wycherley yourſelf
Popular passages
Page 101 - L. walked with me three or four hours by moonlight, and we met no creature of any quality but the king...
Page 151 - My Dear, it is only this; that you will never marry an old Man again.
Page 29 - ... not very common to young men, that the attractions of the world have not dazzled me very much ; and I...
Page 198 - Parnell is in an ill state of health. "Pardon me if I add a word of advice in the poetical way.
Page 176 - ... a perspective glass. When you shut the doors of this grotto it becomes on the instant, from a luminous room, a Camera obscura, on the walls of which all the objects of the river, hills, woods and boats are forming a moving picture in their visible radiations; and when you have a mind to light it up, it affords you a very different scene.
Page 100 - To eat Westphalia ham in a morning; ride over hedges and ditches on borrowed hacks; come home in the heat of the day with a fever, and (what is worse a hundred times) with a red mark on the forehead from an uneasy hat; all this may qualify them to make excellent wives for fox-hunters, and bear abundance of ruddycomplexioned children.
Page 28 - Sickness is a sort of early old age; it teaches us a diffidence in our earthly state, and inspires us with the thoughts of a future, better than a thousand volumes of philosophers and divines.
Page 196 - One or two of your own friends complained they had heard nothing from you since the Queen's death. I told them no man living loved Mr. Gay better than I, yet I had not once written to him in all his voyage. This I thought a convincing proof, how truly one may be a friend to another without telling him so every month.
Page 103 - ... tone) that it was eleven at night. All this was no ill preparation to the life I have led since, among those old...
Page 196 - ... politics were never your concern. If you are a Whig, as I rather hope, and as I think, your principles and mine (as brother poets) had ever a bias to the side of liberty, I know you will be an honest man, and an inoffensive one. Upon the whole, I know, you are incapable of being so much of either party as to be good for nothing.