But it took all Diana's breezy, newsy, delightful
epistle to banish the sting of Ruby's postscript.
Some of the other poems, especially the autobiographical 'Epistle to Dr.
During his last fifteen years Pope's original work was done chiefly in two very closely related fields, first in a group of what he called 'Moral' essays, second in the imitation of a few of the Satires and Epistles of Horace, which Pope applied to circumstances of his own time.
He therefore seized the little
epistle, and opened it eagerly.
After breakfast two letters arrived for Athos, who read them with profound attention, whilst D'Artagnan could not restrain himself from jumping up several times on seeing him read these
epistles, in one of which, there being at the time a very strong light, he perceived the fine writing of Aramis.
This is a long
epistle that I am sending you, but the reason is that today I feel in good spirits after dining at Rataziaev's.
Julia herself had written several long epistles to Anna, and it was now the proper time that some of these should be answered, independently of the thousand promises from her friend of writing regularly from every post-office that she might pass on her route to the Gennessee.
Notes and short epistles from her aunt, with divers letters from Anna written slyly in the school-room and slipped into her lap, she was already well acquainted with; but of real, genuine letters, stamped by the post-office, rumpled by the mail-bags, consecrated by the steam-boat, this was certainly the first.
Upon the inside of each of these I had to scrawl a few lines on any subject which occurred to me as sufficiently mysterious -- signing all the
epistles Tom Dobson, or Bobby Tompkins, or anything in that way.
Linton complied; and had he been unrestrained, would probably have spoiled all by filling his
epistles with complaints and lamentations.
Written, like Horace's other
epistles of this period, in a loose conversational frame, Ars Poetica consists of 476 lines containing nearly 30 maxims for young poets.