The Works of the English Poets: PopeH. Hughs, 1779 |
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... happier island in the watery wafte , Where flaves once more their native land behold , No fiends torment , no Chriftians thirst for gold . To Be , contents his natural defire , He afks no Angel's wing , no Seraph's fire ; But thinks ...
... happier island in the watery wafte , Where flaves once more their native land behold , No fiends torment , no Chriftians thirst for gold . To Be , contents his natural defire , He afks no Angel's wing , no Seraph's fire ; But thinks ...
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... Happiness , Then Nature deviates ; and can Man do less ? As much that end a conftant courfe requires 150 Of fhowers and fun - fhine , as of Man's defires ; As much eternal springs and cloudless skies , As men for ever temperate , calm ...
... Happiness , Then Nature deviates ; and can Man do less ? As much that end a conftant courfe requires 150 Of fhowers and fun - fhine , as of Man's defires ; As much eternal springs and cloudless skies , As men for ever temperate , calm ...
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... happier natures shrink at with affright , The hard inhabitant contends is right . VARIATIONS . 230 Virtuous After ver . zzo . in the firft Edition followed thefe , A Cheat ! A Whore ! who starts not at the name , In all the Inns of ...
... happier natures shrink at with affright , The hard inhabitant contends is right . VARIATIONS . 230 Virtuous After ver . zzo . in the firft Edition followed thefe , A Cheat ! A Whore ! who starts not at the name , In all the Inns of ...
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... happiness by hope fupply'd , And each vacuity of sense by Pride : These build as fast as knowledge can destroy ; In folly's cup ftill laughs the bubble , joy ; One prospect loft , another still we gain ; And not a vanity is giv'n in ...
... happiness by hope fupply'd , And each vacuity of sense by Pride : These build as fast as knowledge can destroy ; In folly's cup ftill laughs the bubble , joy ; One prospect loft , another still we gain ; And not a vanity is giv'n in ...
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... happiness of Animals mu- tual , ver . 49. II . Reafon or Instinct operate alike to the good of each Individual , ver . 79. Reafon or In- ftin & t operate alfo to Society in all animals , ver . 109 . III . How far Society carried by ...
... happiness of Animals mu- tual , ver . 49. II . Reafon or Instinct operate alike to the good of each Individual , ver . 79. Reafon or In- ftin & t operate alfo to Society in all animals , ver . 109 . III . How far Society carried by ...
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Página 82 - 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, oh teach my heart To find that better way...
Página 132 - His gardens next your admiration call; On every side you look, behold the wall! No pleasing intricacies intervene, No artful wildness to perplex the scene ; Grove nods at grove, each alley has a brother, And half the platform just reflects the other.
Página 33 - Warms in the sun, refreshes in the breeze, Glows in the stars, and blossoms in the trees : Lives through all life, extends through all extent, Spreads undivided, operates unspent...
Página 35 - 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; 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 151 - And born to write, converse, and live with ease: Should such a man, too fond to rule alone, Bear, like the Turk, no brother near the throne...
Página 54 - Nor think, in Nature's state they blindly trod; The state of Nature was the reign of God: Self-love and social at her birth began, Union the bond of all things, and of man.
Página 33 - All discord, harmony not understood ; All partial evil, universal good : And, spite of pride, in erring reason's spite, One truth is clear, WHATEVER is, is RIGHT.
Página 159 - Me, let the tender office long engage To rock the cradle of reposing age, With lenient arts extend a mother's breath, Make languor smile, and smooth the bed of death; Explore the thought, explain the asking eye, And keep a while one parent from the sky ! On cares like these, if length of days attend, May Heaven, to bless those days, preserve my friend!
Página 150 - Pretty! in amber to observe the forms Of hairs, or straws, or dirt, or grubs, or worms! The things, we know, are neither rich nor rare, But wonder how the devil they got there.
Página 123 - Who builds a church to God, and not to Fame, Will never mark the marble with his name...