We see that javascript is disabled or not supported by your browser - javascript is needed for important actions on the site. Read more

What's New - Home - Login

Member $avings: $81,585,354.90 | Books Available: 792,677 | Members Online: 231

Swap Used Books - Buy New Books at Great Prices!

How To Swap Books Sign Up Search submenu

PBS Market (New Books)

Gift Buying Guide

Book Browser Advanced Search Books Posted Today Member Book Reviews Award Winning Books NYT Best Sellers Amazon Best Sellers Most Traveled Copies Club Wish List

Discussion Forums Book Lists

Club Lists My Book Lists My Watched Lists Create a List

Blog Donations

School Donation Program In Memory of... Military Donation Program Friends of PBS

Box-O-Books Maps The Eclectic Pen Fun Stuff

20 Questions Sudoku Bookmark Creator

Top 100

Requests Posts Swappers Referrers Reviewers

Pulse of PBS Spread The Word

Invite Friends Bookmarks Facebook Page Facebook App More Ways...

Photo Gallery Recipes Club Tag Cloud Member Testimonials

Help Center submenu

How To Swap Books Browse Help Docs Ask the Librarian PBS Member Icons Live Help

Kiosk

PBS Market (New Books) Go Shopping Buy Credits Buy PBS Money Upgrade Membership Gift Certificates Transfer Credits

Need Help?

Search - Letters Of The Late Alexander Pope, Esq. To A Lady. Never Before Published

Letters Of The Late Alexander Pope Esq To A Lady Never Before Published
Author: Alexander Pope

LETTERS OF THE LATE ALEXANDER POPE - ADVERTISEMENT - THESE Letters, befides the zaiveti o f the ityle, the quick allies of an ingenious mind, and the graver obfervations of re fleaion and judgment, difcover the Writers Heart to have had a more amiable ienfibility, and to be tinQured with more good ners, than his other Writings of this fort do. I... more »T-may be proper juR to men-J 4 tion, that the Originals of theie Letters are in Mr. Dodfleys Poffeffion. tv. 9 for all-things, - and above I - r . a a11 for our f iife 2dd - gemus in what ever ever degree we have it but to Fan- ., 4 . cy yourfelf indebted to at y t hing elfe, moves my anger at your modefly. The P c-I kgard I rnuR bear-you, Cerioufly pro ceeds from myfelf alone and I will npt iuffe even one I like fo much as Mrs. H. to have a fl are in caufing it. I challenge a kind of relation to you on the fouls fide, which I take to be r C . - 1 better than either on a fafhers or mothers and if you can overlook an . u gly body that Rands much in the . 1 way of any friendfhip, when it is be-.. - t weeq d - iE erent. fexes I hall hope to C - - f ind you a true and conR . a nt kincwo- man man in Apollo. Not that 1 would. place all my pretenfions upon that poetical foot, much leib confine theni , to it I am far more defirous to be admitted as yours., on the more meri t 4 torious title of friendfhip. I I avee ever believed thisoas a iacred maxim, that the . moft ingenious natures were the mofi fincere and the moIt knowing and Cenfible rniilds made the beit friends. Of all thofe that 1 have thought it the felicity of my life td know, I have ever found the moft difiinguiihed in capacity, the mofi diltinguifhed in morality and thok the mofk to be depended on, horn one - efteerned-h much ae to defirc they fhould be Co. I beg you to make me no more compliments.. I could make you a great manv, d but I know you. neither nsed them, nor cap like them be fo good as to think I do not. I11 one word, your writings are very good, and very entertninisg but not fb good, nor fo entertaining, as your life and converfation. One is but the eKe and emanation of the ather. It tvil always be a greater pleaiure t t me, to know you gre well, than that you write well, though. every time you tell me the one, I muit know the other. I am willing to fpaie your modeity and therefore, as to your writing, may perhaps never Gymore direaly to you rfelf than the few v . er - - f es I fend here which as a proof of my own modeity too l made fo long t ago as the day you fateforyour piflure, and yet never till now durR confers to you. Tho fprightly Sappho force our love and praife, A fofter wonder my pleasd foul furveys, The mild Erinna, blufhing in her bays. Sokphile the funs broad beam yet itrikes the f ght, AI1 mild appears the moons more fober light, Serene, in virgin majeity, h e mines v . . - And, un-obferved, the glaring fun declines. U . THE bhgh. tefk wit in the world, 1 without the better qualities of the h . . e art, n u f m i eet with this fate and t - e nds only to endear fuch a charaaer a . s I take yours to , be. In the better difcovery, and fuller conviaion of which, I have a itrong opinion, I h a l l grow more and more happy, the longer I live your acquaintance, and if you will indulge me in CO much i GuFfaithfu f l r iend, and moll L . obliged fervant, A. POPE. L ET Twitenharn, Nor. 5. H 0 U G-H I am extre-mely obliged by your agreeable - let-ter, I will avoid all mention of the pleafure you give nie, that we may have no more words . about compli- ments which I have often obfeerveki people tdk themfeives irito while -. r L . a L - they - X MR. P 0 P ES they endeavour to talk thernrelves out of...

ISBN-13: 9781408616109
ISBN-10: 1408616106
Publication Date: 1/31/2008
Pages: 86
Rating:

0 stars, based on 0 rating

Publisher: Read Books
Book Type: Paperback
Members Wishing: 0
Reviews: Amazon | Write a Review

Back to the Top ↑

Search - Letters Of The Late Alexander Pope, Esq. To A Lady. Never Before Published

Loading...