The Works of Alexander Pope (Volume 10) - Softcover

Pope, Alexander

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1234939274 ISBN 13: 9781234939274

Verlag: General Books LLC, 2012

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Book may have numerous typos, missing text, images, or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1886. Excerpt: ... who feels he has either will never too lightly believe it is questioned by another, whom he knows to possess it. But that it is a rule with me, to consider the letters I receive from my friends as their own property still, though trusted to my possession, I could more effectually convince him how he ought to think, by letting him see how you think on this subject, in an easy, undesigning, natural indignation, expressed in a private letter, than by all the most laboured endeavours of yourself or your friends in public. It cannot be difficult to dispossess the town of a notion, whose credit will gradually die away, in proportion to the daily discovery that is made of the malicious industry with which it was propagated. And I dare assert, that your friends are too many and too sanguine, to let a slander be long-lived, that is levelled against your gratitude; I use this word by an authority which I borrow from your own generosity, in the preface to your translation of the Iliad. I am so pleased to converse with you any way, that I forgot I have scarce room to declare myself, dear sir, your most faithfully affectionate servant. 29. POPE TO HILL1 Feb. 5, 1731-2.2 Dear Sir,--I made a strong essay to have told you in person how very kindly I took your two last letters. The only hours I had in my power from a necessary care that brought me back immediately, I would have imposed on you. It will please you to know the poor woman3 is rather better, though it may be but like the improvement of a light on the 1 First appeared in 'A Collection 1731-2, as further appears from its of Letters,^ &c., 1751. noticing an observation of Mr. Hill's, 2 This letter is in the former edi- in his letter of the 17th Dee., 1731, tions dated Feb. 5, 1730-1--which is respecting the title of that Epistle, before the...

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• Verlag: General Books LLC
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2012
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1234939274
• ISBN 13: 9781234939274
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 142
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