An Essay on Man: By Alexander Pope, Esq. Enlarged and Improved by the Author. Together with His MS. Additions and Variations as in the Last Edition of His Works. With the Notes of William, Lord Bishop of GloucesterA. Millar, and J. and R. Tonson, 1763 - 124 páginas |
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... Some fafer world in depth of woods embraced , 105 Some happier ifland in the watry waste , Where flaves once more their native land behold , No fiends torment , no Chriftians thirst for gold , To Be , contents his natural defire , He ...
... Some fafer world in depth of woods embraced , 105 Some happier ifland in the watry waste , Where flaves once more their native land behold , No fiends torment , no Chriftians thirst for gold , To Be , contents his natural defire , He ...
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... some small portion of life ; fo , though we reafon to err , yet we com- prehend fome few truths . This is the weak state of Rea- fon , in which Error mixes itself with all its true conclu- fions concerning Man's Nature . VER . 11. Alike ...
... some small portion of life ; fo , though we reafon to err , yet we com- prehend fome few truths . This is the weak state of Rea- fon , in which Error mixes itself with all its true conclu- fions concerning Man's Nature . VER . 11. Alike ...
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... some Virtue's name . 100 In lazy Apathy let Stoics boast Their Virtue fix'd ; ' tis fix'd as in a froft ; Contracted all , retiring to the breast ; But ftrength of mind is Exercife , not Reft ; The rifing tempeft puts in act the foul ...
... some Virtue's name . 100 In lazy Apathy let Stoics boast Their Virtue fix'd ; ' tis fix'd as in a froft ; Contracted all , retiring to the breast ; But ftrength of mind is Exercife , not Reft ; The rifing tempeft puts in act the foul ...
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... Some livelier play - thing gives his youth delight , A little louder , but as empty quite : Scarfs , garters , gold , amuse his riper stage , 275 And beads and pray'r - books are the toys of age : 280 Pleas'd with this bauble ftill ; as ...
... Some livelier play - thing gives his youth delight , A little louder , but as empty quite : Scarfs , garters , gold , amuse his riper stage , 275 And beads and pray'r - books are the toys of age : 280 Pleas'd with this bauble ftill ; as ...
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... some of which they were fuppofed to be more delighted than o- thers , and confequently to be then moft propitious when invoked by the favourite name and place : Hence we find , the Hymns of Homer , Orpheus , and Callimachus to be ...
... some of which they were fuppofed to be more delighted than o- thers , and confequently to be then moft propitious when invoked by the favourite name and place : Hence we find , the Hymns of Homer , Orpheus , and Callimachus to be ...
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Términos y frases comunes
againſt beafts becauſe beft beſt bleffing bleft blifs Caufe Cauſe chufing conclufion confequence confifts creature Defcribe divine eaſe Effay epiftle Ev'n ev'ry Evil faid Faith fame fave fays fecond feen fenfe ferves fhall fhew fince firft firſt fome fool Form'd foul ftate ftill fubject fublime fuch fuffer fuppofed fupport fyftem gives greateſt Happineſs hath Heav'n himſelf Hope human Inftinct int'reft itſelf juft juſt kings laft leſs Lord Man's Manichæan Mankind mind moft moral moſt muft muſt Nature Nature's NOTES obfervation OURSELVES TO KNOW paffage paffions perfect philofophic Plato pleaſure poet Pow'r praiſe prefent pride purpoſe raiſe Reaſon reft Religion reſt rife ruling Angels Self-love ſenſe ſhade ſmall ſome ſpirit ſtate ſtill ſtrong thee thefe themſelves theſe things thofe thoſe thou thouſand thro truth Tyrant Univerſe uſe VARIATIONS Vice Virtue wants whofe whole whoſe wife wiſdom καὶ
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Página 60 - Joy tunes his voice, joy elevates his wings. Is it for thee the linnet pours his throat ? Loves of his own and raptures swell the note.
Página 68 - Let them praise the name of the Lord: for his name alone is excellent; his glory is above the earth and heaven.
Página 25 - 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 91 - But mutual wants this happiness increase, All nature's difference keeps all nature's peace. Condition, circumstance, is not the thing, Bliss is the same in subject or in king; In who obtain defence, or who defend, In him who is, or him who finds a friend : Heaven breathes through every member of the whole One common blessing as one common soul.
Página 49 - Fools ! who from hence into the notion fall, That vice or virtue there is none at all. If white and black blend, soften, and unite A thousand ways, is there no black or white?
Página 67 - Praise ye him sun and moon : praise him all ye stars of light. Praise him ye heavens of heavens, and ye waters that be above the heavens ; let them praise the name of the Lord ; for he commanded, and they were created.
Página 70 - Go, from the creatures thy instructions take: Learn from the birds what food the thickets yield ; Learn from the beasts the physic of the field; Thy arts of building from the bee receive ; Learn of the mole to plough, the worm to weave; Learn of the little nautilus to sail, Spread the thin oar, and catch the driving gale.
Página 119 - By saint, by savage, and by sage, Jehovah, Jove, or Lord! Thou Great First Cause, least understood, Who all my sense confined 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 31 - 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; In doubt to deem himself a God or Beast; In doubt his mind or body to prefer; Born but to die, and reas'ning but to err...
Página 88 - Parnassian laurels yield, Or reap'd in iron harvests of the field ? Where grows? where grows it not ? if vain our toil, We ought to blame the culture, not the soil. Fix'd to no spot is happiness sincere; 'Tis no where to be found, or ev'ry where ; 'Tis never to be bought, but always free ; And, fled from monarchs, St.