 | Alexander Pope - 1871 - 540 Seiten
...whether the love of fame increases as we advance in age ; sure I am that the force of friendship does. I loved you almost twenty years ago ; I thought of you...loving you as well when I knew you less, or for loving 1 "Catholic," is an ambiguous odd man, and a very bad writer ; bnt word, and as Pope was certainly... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1871 - 532 Seiten
...of whom is that the date of Bolingbroke's Pope said to Spence, " He is a very letter is erroneous. you as well after loving you so many years, I shall not determine. What I would say is this : whilst my mind grows daily more independent of the world, and feels less need of leaning on external... | |
 | 1920 - 854 Seiten
...which never weakened. Hear what Bolingbroke wrote to Swift after twenty years of companionship : ' I loved you almost twenty years ago : I thought of you...avoid an equivoque, beyond the extent of my ideas. . . . while my mind grows daily more independent of the world, and feels less need of leaning on external... | |
 | Howard Williams, Jonathan Swift, Alexander Pope - 1886 - 632 Seiten
...whether the love of fame increases as we advance in ago, sure I am that the force of friendship does. I loved you almost twenty years ago. I thought of you...power of conception — or, to avoid an equivoque, beyoTid the extent of my ideas. ... Is it," he continues, " that we grow more tender as the moment... | |
 | Sophie Shilleto Smith - 1910 - 586 Seiten
...whether the love of fame increases as we advance in age ; sure I am that the force of friendship does. I loved you almost twenty years ago; I thought of you...do now, better was beyond the power of conception." He was distressed at this time by the account of Prior's misfortunes, and did everything possible to... | |
 | Charles Whibley - 1917 - 64 Seiten
...together were never weakened. Hear what Bolingbroke wrote to Swift after twenty years of companionship. "I loved you almost twenty years ago : I thought of you...avoid an equivoque, beyond the extent of my ideas — While my mind grows daily more independent of the world, and feels less need of leaning on external... | |
 | Henry Woodd Nevinson - 1921 - 232 Seiten
...accounted a valued friend among the best wits and writers of his time. Bolingbroke wrote to him: "I loved you almost twenty years ago; I thought of you...do now, better was beyond the power of conception." Pope, also after twenty years of intimate friendship, could write of him : "My sincere love of that... | |
 | Sidney Dark - 1928 - 264 Seiten
...and influence had come to an end. Writing of Swift in his years of eclipse, Bolingbroke said: — 'I loved you almost twenty years ago: I thought of you...avoid an equivoque, beyond the extent of my ideas. . . . While my mind grows daily more independent of this world, and feels less need of leaning on external... | |
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I loved you almost twenty years ago ; I thought of you as well as I do now ; better was beyond the power of conception ; or, to avoid an equivoque, beyond the extent of my ideas. 
