Pope. Essay on man, ed. by M. Pattison1878 |
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... common source . The Essay on Man was composed at a time when the reading public , in this country , were occupied with an intense and eager curiosity by speculation on the first principles of Natural Reli- gion . Everywhere , in the ...
... common source . The Essay on Man was composed at a time when the reading public , in this country , were occupied with an intense and eager curiosity by speculation on the first principles of Natural Reli- gion . Everywhere , in the ...
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... common sense , and the experience of life as it is . To this common sense Pope appeals throughout . He conceived poetry only as an expression of this ' common sense , ' as is indicated by his criticism on Young ( Dr. Edward Young , died ...
... common sense , and the experience of life as it is . To this common sense Pope appeals throughout . He conceived poetry only as an expression of this ' common sense , ' as is indicated by his criticism on Young ( Dr. Edward Young , died ...
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... common to England , France and Germany , though the period of its duration was different in the three countries . ( Schaefer , Geschichte der Deutschen Literatur , b . 6 , c . 5. ) The attempt as a whole was unsuccessful ; lowering the ...
... common to England , France and Germany , though the period of its duration was different in the three countries . ( Schaefer , Geschichte der Deutschen Literatur , b . 6 , c . 5. ) The attempt as a whole was unsuccessful ; lowering the ...
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... common stock of what is called ' poet- ical imagery . ' So little care has he for consistency , that while death is represented ( 3.161 & c . ) as a step in the sequence of degeneracy and corruption , a few lines further ( 3.221 & c ...
... common stock of what is called ' poet- ical imagery . ' So little care has he for consistency , that while death is represented ( 3.161 & c . ) as a step in the sequence of degeneracy and corruption , a few lines further ( 3.221 & c ...
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... common - places , or partial special pleadings . The Essay on Man can only be read as a classic , as a relic of past controversies . Neglecting its ambitious design of exhibiting a system of nature and providence 14 INTRODUCTORY .
... common - places , or partial special pleadings . The Essay on Man can only be read as a classic , as a relic of past controversies . Neglecting its ambitious design of exhibiting a system of nature and providence 14 INTRODUCTORY .
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Pasajes populares
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.