Letters by Several Eminent Persons Deceased: Including the Correspondence of John Hughes, and Several of His Friends, Published from the Originals: with Notes Explanatory and Historical, Volume 2J. Johnson, 1772 |
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... Pimpern , July 6 , 1728 . YOU defire me to recommend a tutor to your nephew . If he is defigned for a gentleman - commoner , I would recommend him to New - college , ( for we take no com- moners ) and to Mr. Spence , a fellow of the ...
... Pimpern , July 6 , 1728 . YOU defire me to recommend a tutor to your nephew . If he is defigned for a gentleman - commoner , I would recommend him to New - college , ( for we take no com- moners ) and to Mr. Spence , a fellow of the ...
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... Pimpern , May 23 , 1736 . THANK you for the epilogue , which I like in all respects , but chiefly for the honeft and moral fentiments in it . I am ne- ver better pleased with myself , than when I find I am pleafed with any thing that is ...
... Pimpern , May 23 , 1736 . THANK you for the epilogue , which I like in all respects , but chiefly for the honeft and moral fentiments in it . I am ne- ver better pleased with myself , than when I find I am pleafed with any thing that is ...
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... Pimpern , Jan. 4 , 1736-7 . .... I HAD fome thoughts of attempting that " epiftle to Auguftus " in the modern way . But if Mr. Pope has done it , no doubt , it is done in perfection . I have done in that way . lately four or five of the ...
... Pimpern , Jan. 4 , 1736-7 . .... I HAD fome thoughts of attempting that " epiftle to Auguftus " in the modern way . But if Mr. Pope has done it , no doubt , it is done in perfection . I have done in that way . lately four or five of the ...
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... fiends prevent Ead's journey to the fair ? * Mr . Pitt's fervant , the fon of a blacksmith . † Another fervant of Mr. Pitt . Blandford - fair , two miles from Pimpern , Why Why all this noise , this buftle , and this [ 48 ]
... fiends prevent Ead's journey to the fair ? * Mr . Pitt's fervant , the fon of a blacksmith . † Another fervant of Mr. Pitt . Blandford - fair , two miles from Pimpern , Why Why all this noise , this buftle , and this [ 48 ]
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... Pimpern , June 1 , 1737 . THE papers * came fafe to hand . I am glad you and yours like them fo much , and am apt to think they are ( some of them at least ) pretty well done . Perhaps I may attempt fome more of them at my firft leifure ...
... Pimpern , June 1 , 1737 . THE papers * came fafe to hand . I am glad you and yours like them fo much , and am apt to think they are ( some of them at least ) pretty well done . Perhaps I may attempt fome more of them at my firft leifure ...
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Página 103 - ... sakes. For the gifts and calling of God are without repentance. For as ye in times past have not believed God, yet have now obtained mercy through their unbelief; even so have these also now not believed, that through your mercy they also may obtain mercy. For God hath concluded them all in unbelief, that he might have mercy upon all.
Página 264 - And the Lord shall scatter thee among all people, from the one end of the earth even unto the other ; and there thou shalt serve other gods, which neither thou nor thy fathers have known, even wood and stone.
Página 276 - For the days shall come upon thee, that thine enemies shall cast a trench about thee, and compass thee round, and keep thee in on every side, and shall lay thee even with the ground, and thy children within thee ; and they shall not leave in thee one stone upon another ; because thou knewest not the time of thy visitation.
Página 229 - ... were I to live again, I would change the court for a cloister, my private councillor's bustle for hermit's retirement, and the whole life I have lived in the palace, for one hour's enjoyment of God in the chapel. All things forsake me but my God, my duty, and my prayers.
Página 259 - Tempest the ocean: there leviathan Hugest of living creatures, on the deep Stretch'd like a promontory sleeps or swims, And seems a moving land; and at his gills Draws in, and at his trunk spouts out a sea.
Página 276 - And when ye shall see Jerusalem compassed with armies, then know that the desolation thereof is nigh. 21 Then let them which are in Judea, flee to the mountains ; and let them which are in the midst of it, depart out; and let not them that are in the countries, enter thereinto. 22 For these be the days of vengeance, that all things which are written may be fulfilled.
Página 46 - Incline thofe heads, that never ach'd or thought, This muft provoke his mirth or his difdain, Cure his complaint, — or make him fick again, I too, like them, the poet's path...
Página 262 - Centre, and with impious hands Rifled the bowels of their mother Earth For treasures better hid.
Página 3 - So much understanding, so much knowledge, so much innocence, and such humility, I did not think had been the portion of any but angels, till I saw this gentleman...
Página 82 - When we had dispatched our meal, and had taken a view of an old church, very large for that country, we re-mounted, and my guide pointed to a narrow...