Pope. Essay on man, ed. by M. Pattison1878 |
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... poem contemplated , but not completed . Hence the title imperfectly describes its contents . It is less a treatise on Man than on the moral order of the world of which man is a part . The Essay is a vindication of Providence . The ...
... poem contemplated , but not completed . Hence the title imperfectly describes its contents . It is less a treatise on Man than on the moral order of the world of which man is a part . The Essay is a vindication of Providence . The ...
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... poem , is Pope's own . ' ( Boswell , Life , vol . 7. p . 283. ) " This extemporised judgment of Johnson probably is as near the truth as we can get . It was from Bolingbroke's conversation that the poet derived not only many of his ...
... poem , is Pope's own . ' ( Boswell , Life , vol . 7. p . 283. ) " This extemporised judgment of Johnson probably is as near the truth as we can get . It was from Bolingbroke's conversation that the poet derived not only many of his ...
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... poem are to be traced to books in much vogue at the time ; to Shaftesbury's Characteristics ( 1711 ) , King On the ... poems is his Épître sur l'amour de Dieu , which he was drawn in to write because the Quietist controversy , in which ...
... poem are to be traced to books in much vogue at the time ; to Shaftesbury's Characteristics ( 1711 ) , King On the ... poems is his Épître sur l'amour de Dieu , which he was drawn in to write because the Quietist controversy , in which ...
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... poem , which does not place the reader throughout in the attitude of personal devotion . On the other hand , as a version of the metaphysical argument for the moral attributes of God , it is a very narrow and incomplete rendering of ...
... poem , which does not place the reader throughout in the attitude of personal devotion . On the other hand , as a version of the metaphysical argument for the moral attributes of God , it is a very narrow and incomplete rendering of ...
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... poem , ' says De Quincey , ' is the realisation of anarchy ; and one amusing test of this may be found in the fact that different commentators have de- duced from it opposite doctrines . In some instances this ap- parent antinomy is ...
... poem , ' says De Quincey , ' is the realisation of anarchy ; and one amusing test of this may be found in the fact that different commentators have de- duced from it opposite doctrines . In some instances this ap- parent antinomy is ...
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Página 30 - Lo, the poor Indian ! whose untutored 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 66 - 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 77 - As may express them best ; though what if earth Be but the shadow of heaven, and things therein Each to other like, more than on earth is thought...
Página 100 - Had in her sober livery all things clad ; Silence accompanied ; for beast and bird, They to their grassy couch, these to their nests, Were slunk, all but the wakeful nightingale, She all night long her amorous descant sung...
Página 36 - 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 86 - From harmony, from heavenly harmony This universal frame began : From harmony to harmony Through all the compass of the notes it ran, The diapason closing full in Man.
Página 104 - They summ'd their pens; and, soaring the air sublime, With clang despised the ground, under a cloud In prospect: there the eagle and the stork On cliffs and cedar tops their eyries build: Part loosely wing the region; part, more wise, In common, ranged in figure, wedge their way, Intelligent of seasons, and set forth Their aery caravan, high over seas Flying, and over lands, with mutual wing Easing their flight...
Página 33 - Why has not man a microscopic eye ? For this plain reason, man is not a fly.
Página 63 - What shocks one part will edify the rest, Nor with one system can they all be blest. The very best will variously incline, And what rewards your virtue, punish mine. Whatever is, is right.
Página 30 - Heav'n from all creatures hides the book of fate, All but the page prescrib'd, their present state: From brutes what men, from men what spirits know ; Or who could suffer being here below? The lamb thy riot dooms to bleed today, Had he thy reason, would he skip and play? Pleas'd to the last, he crops the flow'ry food, And licks the hand just rais'd to shed his blood.