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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www. million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: LETTERS TO and FROM Mr. WYCHERLEY, From the Year 1704 to 1711. Letter I. Binfieldm Windfor Foreft Dec. 26, 1724. T was certainly a great fatisfaandion to me, to fee and converfe with a Man, whom in his writings I had long known with pleafure; but it was a high addition to it, to hear you at our very firft meeting do juftice to your dead friend Mr. Dryden. I was not fo happy as to know him: Virgilium tantum vidi: The Author's Age then Sixteen. had I been born early enough, I muft have known and lov'd him: For I have been aflured, not only by your felf, but by Mr. Con- greve and Sir William Trumbul, that his perfonal Qualities were as amiable as his Poetical, notwithftanding the many libellous mifreprefentations of them, againft which the former of thefe Gentlemen has told me he will one day vindicate him. I fuppofe thofe injuries were begun by the violence of Party, but 'tis no doubt they were continued by Envy at his fuccefs and fame: And thofe Scriblers who attacked him in his latter times, were only like gnats in a fummer's evening, which are never very troublefome but in the fineft and moft glorious feafon; for his fire like the fun's, fhined cleared towards it fetting. You muft not therefore imagine, that when you told me my own performances were above thofe Critics, I was fo vain as to believe it; and yet I may not be fo humble as to think my felf quite below their notice. For Critics, as they are birds of prey, have ever a natural inclination to carrion: and tho' fuch poor writers as I are but beggars, no beggar is fo poor but he can keep a cur, and no author is fo beggarly but he can keep a critic. I am far from thinking the attacks of fuch people would be either any Honour or Difhonour even to me, much lefs to Mr. Dryden. I agree with y Books Literary Collections~~General Letters-Of-Mr-Alexander-Pope~~Alexander-Pope General Books LLC This is an OCR edition without illustrations or index. It may have numerous typos or missing text. However, purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original rare book from GeneralBooksClub.com. You can also preview excerpts from the book there. Purchasers are also entitled to a free trial membership in the General Books Club where they can select from more than a million books without charge. Original Published by: Printed by J. Wright for J. Knapton, L. Gilliver, J. Brindley, and R. Dodsley in 1737 in 374 pages; Subjects: English letters; Literary Collections / Letters; Literary Criticism / General; Literary Criticism / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; Literary Criticism / Poetry; Poetry / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh;<

ISBN: 9780217301404

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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1737. Excerpt: ... den; but in English it bears the signification and conveys the idea of Eden, which alone is (I think) a reason against making Ovid use it; who will be thought to talk too like a christian in your version at least, whatever it might have been in Latin or Greek. As for all the rest of my remarks, since you do not laugh at them as at this, I can be so civil as not to lay any stress upon em (as I think I told you before) and in particular in the point of Trees enjoying, you have I must own, fully satisfy''d me that the expression is not only defensible, but beautiful. I shall be very glad to fee your translation of the Elegy ad Amkam navigantem, as soon as you can; for (without a compliment to you) every thing you write either in verse or profe, is welcome to me; and you may be confident, (if my opinion can be of any fort of consequence in any thing) that I will never be unsincere, tho'' I may be often mistaken. To use sincerity with you is but paying you in your own coin, from whom I have experienced so much of it; and I need not tell you how much I really esteem you, when I esteem nothing in the world so much as that quality. I know you sometimes say civil things to me in your epistolary style, but thofe I am to make allowance for, as particularly when you talk of Admiring; ''tis a word you are so us''d to in the conversation of Ladies, that it will creep into your discourse in spite of you ev''n to your friends. But as women when they think themselves secure of admiration, commit a thousand negligences, which show them so much at disadvantage and off their guard, as to lose the little real love they had before: So,when men imagine others entertain some esteem for their abilities, they often expose all their imperfections and foolish works, to the disparagement... Alexander Pope, Books, Fiction and Literature, Fiction, Letters of Mr. Alexander Pope, and several of his friends Books>Fiction and Literature>Fiction, General Books LLC<

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