Autobiography, Letters and Literary Remains of Mrs. Piozzi (Thrale)Longman, Green, Longman, and Roberts, 1861 - 479 pages |
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Page 125
... Pope's sorrowful reflection , that all things would be as gay as ever on the day of his death , is natural and common : I don't know how common , but not natural in the least to me . I am glad other people go on if I am forced to stop ...
... Pope's sorrowful reflection , that all things would be as gay as ever on the day of his death , is natural and common : I don't know how common , but not natural in the least to me . I am glad other people go on if I am forced to stop ...
Page 127
... Pope on a flageolet . " - Boswell . Homer played on the organ : Pope on the Cremona fiddle . " You must not expect I should tell you anything BEAUCLERC.OTWAY'S HAG . 127.
... Pope on a flageolet . " - Boswell . Homer played on the organ : Pope on the Cremona fiddle . " You must not expect I should tell you anything BEAUCLERC.OTWAY'S HAG . 127.
Page 141
... Pope , in imitation . " A tendency to belief that the mind goes with the body . " ( Vol . ix . p . 273. ) Johnson was very jealous of such sentiments towards himself : he used to quote Swift perpetually and say , " Some dire ...
... Pope , in imitation . " A tendency to belief that the mind goes with the body . " ( Vol . ix . p . 273. ) Johnson was very jealous of such sentiments towards himself : he used to quote Swift perpetually and say , " Some dire ...
Page 143
... Pope's Eloisa , " there is a little tale not new to me , told of a trick put upon Dryden by some wag , who translated his famous lines beginning , " To die is landing on some silent shore , " & c . into Latin verses ; old Leonine ones ...
... Pope's Eloisa , " there is a little tale not new to me , told of a trick put upon Dryden by some wag , who translated his famous lines beginning , " To die is landing on some silent shore , " & c . into Latin verses ; old Leonine ones ...
Page 145
... Pope represents him ( Parnell ) as falling from that time into intemperance of wine . " I have heard Dr. Johnson say ( Vol . ix . p . 151. ) what ' tis plain he would not write , -how Parnell could not get thro ' a sermon without ...
... Pope represents him ( Parnell ) as falling from that time into intemperance of wine . " I have heard Dr. Johnson say ( Vol . ix . p . 151. ) what ' tis plain he would not write , -how Parnell could not get thro ' a sermon without ...
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