The Works of Alexander Pope, Volumen 3J. F. Dove, St. John's Square, 1822 |
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... head . I confess in some places I was forced to read twice . I believe I told you before what the Duke of D said to me on that occasion ; how a judge here , who knows you , told him , that , on the first reading those Essays , he was ...
... head . I confess in some places I was forced to read twice . I believe I told you before what the Duke of D said to me on that occasion ; how a judge here , who knows you , told him , that , on the first reading those Essays , he was ...
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... head ? What if the head , the eye , or ear , repin'd To serve mere engines to the ruling mind ? Just as absurd for any part to claim To be another , in this gen'ral frame : Just as absurd , to mourn the tasks or pains , The great ...
... head ? What if the head , the eye , or ear , repin'd To serve mere engines to the ruling mind ? Just as absurd for any part to claim To be another , in this gen'ral frame : Just as absurd , to mourn the tasks or pains , The great ...
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... heads to imitate the Sun. Go , teach Eternal Wisdom how to rule- Then drop into thyself , and be a fool . Superior Beings , when of late they saw A mortal Man unfold all Nature's law , Admir'd such wisdom in an earthly shape , And shew ...
... heads to imitate the Sun. Go , teach Eternal Wisdom how to rule- Then drop into thyself , and be a fool . Superior Beings , when of late they saw A mortal Man unfold all Nature's law , Admir'd such wisdom in an earthly shape , And shew ...
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... head , As the mind opens , and its functions spread , Imagination plies her dang'rous art , And pours it all upon the peccant part . Nature its mother , Habit is its nurse ; Wit , Spirit , Faculties , but make it worse ; Reason itself ...
... head , As the mind opens , and its functions spread , Imagination plies her dang'rous art , And pours it all upon the peccant part . Nature its mother , Habit is its nurse ; Wit , Spirit , Faculties , but make it worse ; Reason itself ...
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... head of this lower part of the creation ; and per- haps it was designed to be absolutely under his command . But that all things here tend directly to his own use , is , I think , neither easy nor necessary to be proved . Some ...
... head of this lower part of the creation ; and per- haps it was designed to be absolutely under his command . But that all things here tend directly to his own use , is , I think , neither easy nor necessary to be proved . Some ...
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Página 19 - Who sees with equal eye, as God of all, A hero perish, or a sparrow fall, Atoms or systems into ruin hurl'd, And now a bubble burst, and now a world.
Página 165 - What conscience dictates to be done, Or warns me not to do, This teach me more than hell to shun, That, more than heav'n pursue. What blessings Thy free bounty gives, Let me not cast away; For God is paid when man receives, To enjoy is to obey.
Página 21 - Lo the poor Indian ! whose untutor'd mind Sees God in clouds, or hears him in the wind ; His soul, proud science never taught to stray Far as the solar walk, or milky way...
Página 166 - Let not this weak, unknowing hand Presume thy bolts to throw, And deal damnation round the land On each I judge thy foe. If I am right, thy grace impart, Still in the right to stay ; If I am wrong, O teach my heart To find that better way.
Página 12 - 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? 20 Thro' worlds unnumber'd tho' the God be known, 'Tis ours to trace him only in our own.
Página 22 - In Pride, in reas'ning Pride, our error lies; All quit their sphere, and rush into the skies. Pride still is aiming at the blest abodes, Men would be Angels, Angels would be Gods. Aspiring to be Gods, if Angels fell, Aspiring to be Angels, Men rebel: And who but wishes to invert the laws Of Order, sins against th
Página 164 - To know but this, that Thou art good, And that myself am blind ; Yet gave me, in this dark estate, To see the good from ill ; And binding nature fast in fate, Left free the human will.
Página 35 - What modes of sight betwixt each wide extreme, The mole's dim curtain, and the lynx's beam : Of smell, the headlong lioness between, And hound sagacious on the tainted green : Of hearing, from the life that fills the flood, To that which warbles through the vernal wood ? The spider's touch, how exquisitely fine ! Feels at each thread, and lives along the line : In the nice bee, what sense so subtly true From pois'nous herbs extracts the healing dew?
Página 202 - twould a saint provoke" (Were the last words that poor Narcissa spoke), " No, let a charming chintz, and Brussels lace Wrap my cold limbs, and shade my lifeless face : One would not, sure, be frightful when one's dead — And, Betty, give this cheek a little red.
Página 211 - No Thought advances, but her Eddy Brain Whisks it about, and down it goes again. Full sixty years the World has been her Trade, The wisest Fool much Time has ever made. From loveless youth to unrespected age, No Passion gratify'd except her Rage.