. English letters and letterwriters of the eighteenth century. With explanatory notes . ur miles, sometimes six, eight, ten,or more—never beyond my own limits; or, if it rains, I walkas much through the house, ujd and down stairs. And, if itwere not for the cruel deafness, I would ride through thekingdom, and half through England—pox on the modern phraseGreat Britain, which is only to distinguish it from LittleBritain, where old clothes and old books are to be bought andsold. However, I will jjut Dr. Sheridan (the best scholarin both kingdoms) upon taking your receipt for a terribleasthma. I w
. English letters and letterwriters of the eighteenth century. With explanatory notes . ur miles, sometimes six, eight, ten,or more—never beyond my own limits; or, if it rains, I walkas much through the house, ujd and down stairs. And, if itwere not for the cruel deafness, I would ride through thekingdom, and half through England—pox on the modern phraseGreat Britain, which is only to distinguish it from LittleBritain, where old clothes and old books are to be bought andsold. However, I will jjut Dr. Sheridan (the best scholarin both kingdoms) upon taking your receipt for a terribleasthma. I wish you were rich enough to buy and keep a horse,and to ride every tolerable day twenty miles. Mr. Richardson is, I think, still in Loudon. I have notwritten as much this many a day. I have tired myself much;but, in revenge, I will tire you. 1 i^ mAMcJi trmre^ nCe-rf c^yn^ t-^trmm tun-ir a^ o^•{ji/n^imU, jfri^fy fi^e^/lyrv^v^t^ ^ From original interleaved copy of Gullivers Travels, in the ForsterCollection in the South Kensington Mtcsewn. The Life and Writings of Pope,. Aalotyfic. MARTHA BLOUNT. FKO^f AN OKIGfXAL PICTURE IX THE COLLECTIOX OFMICHAEL BLOUNT, ESQ., ATMAPLE DURHAM. THE LIFE AND WRITINGS OF POPE. The conspicuous place of the first of the English poets of the eighteenthcentuiy, among Letter-Writers, depends more upon extrinsic than intrinsicmerits—upon his pre-eminent fame, with his contemporaries, as poetand critic, the consequent literary and historic interest attaching to hisprose productions, and the number and celebrity of his the letters of Pope, unlike those of Swift, and, still more, ofOowper, are not emanations of the heart, as he himself wished themto be considered, but laborious compositions is sufficiently apparent;that a large part of his collected Correspondence was the product of thomost extraordinary artifice as well as labour can adequately be knownonly to those who have carefully studied the results of the minutei
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