The Works of Alexander Pope Esq, Volumen 3J. and P. Knapton [and others], 1751 |
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... actions fair , 245 Till the Sons blufh at what their Fathers were : Ere yet ' twas beggary the great to trust ; Ere yet ' twas quite a folly to be just ; When low - born Sharpers only dar'd a lye , Or falfify'd the card , or cogg'd the ...
... actions fair , 245 Till the Sons blufh at what their Fathers were : Ere yet ' twas beggary the great to trust ; Ere yet ' twas quite a folly to be just ; When low - born Sharpers only dar'd a lye , Or falfify'd the card , or cogg'd the ...
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... actions ' , paffions ' , being's , use and end ; Why doing , fuff'ring , check'd , impell'd ; and why This hour a flave , the next a deity . VARIATIONS . In the former Editions 64 . Now wears a garland an Ægyptian God . After 68. the ...
... actions ' , paffions ' , being's , use and end ; Why doing , fuff'ring , check'd , impell'd ; and why This hour a flave , the next a deity . VARIATIONS . In the former Editions 64 . Now wears a garland an Ægyptian God . After 68. the ...
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... actions " of comets and planets up- on one another , and which " will be apt to increase , " ' till this fyftem wants a " reformation . " Sir Ifaac " Newton's Optics , Queft . ult . As much that end a conftant course requires Of fhow'rs ...
... actions " of comets and planets up- on one another , and which " will be apt to increase , " ' till this fyftem wants a " reformation . " Sir Ifaac " Newton's Optics , Queft . ult . As much that end a conftant course requires Of fhow'rs ...
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... action could attend , And , but for this , were active to no end : NOTES . VER . 47. Or tricks to fhew the ftretch of human brain , ] Such as the mathe- matical demonftrations con- cerning the mall quantity of matter ; the endless divi ...
... action could attend , And , but for this , were active to no end : NOTES . VER . 47. Or tricks to fhew the ftretch of human brain , ] Such as the mathe- matical demonftrations con- cerning the mall quantity of matter ; the endless divi ...
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... action of the ftronger to fufpend 70 75 79 Reason still use , to Reason ftill attend . Attention , habit and experience gains ; Each strengthens Reason , and Self - love reftrains . Let fubtle schoolmen teach thefe friends to fight ...
... action of the ftronger to fufpend 70 75 79 Reason still use , to Reason ftill attend . Attention , habit and experience gains ; Each strengthens Reason , and Self - love reftrains . Let fubtle schoolmen teach thefe friends to fight ...
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Página 37 - As man, perhaps, the moment of his breath Receives the lurking principle of death; The young disease, that must subdue at length, Grows with his growth, and strengthens with his strength; So, cast and mingled with his very frame.
Página 102 - What conscience dictates to be done, Or warns me not to do, This teach me more than hell to shun, That more than heaven pursue.
Página 87 - Who wickedly is wise, or madly brave, Is but the more a fool, the more a knave. Who noble ends by noble means obtains, Or failing, smiles in exile or in chains, Like good Aurelius let him reign, or bleed Like Socrates, that man is great indeed. What's fame? a fancied life in others' breath, A thing beyond us, ev'n before our death.
Página 27 - KNOW then thyself, presume not God to scan, The proper study of mankind is Man. Placed on this isthmus of a middle state, A being darkly wise, and rudely great; With too much knowledge for the sceptic side, With too much weakness for the stoic's pride, He hangs between; in doubt to act or rest...
Página 23 - Lives through all life, extends through all extent, Spreads undivided, operates unspent; Breathes in our soul, informs our mortal part, As full, as perfect, in a hair as heart; As full, as perfect in vile man that mourns, As the rapt seraph that adores and burns: To him no high, no low, no great, no small; He fills, He bounds, connects, and equals all.
Página 4 - The latent tracts, the giddy heights explore Of all who blindly creep, or sightless soar; Eye Nature's walks, shoot folly as it flies, And catch the manners living as they rise; Laugh where we must, be candid where we can; But vindicate the ways of God to man.
Página 5 - Say first, of God above, or man below, What can we reason, but from what we know ? Of man, what see we but his station here, From which to reason, or to which refer ? Thro' worlds unnumber'd tho' the God be known, "Tis ours to trace him only in our own.
Página 43 - Ask where's the North? at York, 'tis on the Tweed; In Scotland, at the Orcades ; and there, At Greenland, Zembla, or the Lord knows where.
Página 87 - Heroes are much the same, the point's agreed, From Macedonia's madman to the Swede ; The whole strange purpose of their lives, to find Or make an enemy of all mankind!
Página 141 - That charm shall grow, while what fatigues the Ring, Flaunts and goes down, an unregarded thing...