Pope. Essay on man, ed. by M. Pattison1878 |
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... present edition . After this first critical assault the Essay on Man gradually esta- blished itself as a classic . Dugald Stewart , in Lectures delivered in 1792-3 , expresses the opinion of that age in speaking of the Essay as ' the ...
... present edition . After this first critical assault the Essay on Man gradually esta- blished itself as a classic . Dugald Stewart , in Lectures delivered in 1792-3 , expresses the opinion of that age in speaking of the Essay as ' the ...
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... present poem . But though he carefully avoids the couplet enjambé , he is not wholly free from lesser blemishes of carelessness or laziness . He abounds in imperfect rhymes , the First Epistle alone having seventeen such . He allows the ...
... present poem . But though he carefully avoids the couplet enjambé , he is not wholly free from lesser blemishes of carelessness or laziness . He abounds in imperfect rhymes , the First Epistle alone having seventeen such . He allows the ...
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... present edition is that of Warburton's first collected edition , 1751 , errors of press excepted . As War- burton followed a copy left corrected for press by the author himself , an editor of Pope would seem to have no choice but to ...
... present edition is that of Warburton's first collected edition , 1751 , errors of press excepted . As War- burton followed a copy left corrected for press by the author himself , an editor of Pope would seem to have no choice but to ...
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... present depends , 77. IV . The pride of aiming at more knowledge , and pretending to more perfection , the cause of man's error and misery . The impiety of putting himself in the place of God , and judging of the fitness or unfitness ...
... present depends , 77. IV . The pride of aiming at more knowledge , and pretending to more perfection , the cause of man's error and misery . The impiety of putting himself in the place of God , and judging of the fitness or unfitness ...
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... 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 to - day , Had he thy reason , would he skip and play ? Pleas'd to the last , he crops the flow ...
... 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 to - day , Had he thy reason , would he skip and play ? Pleas'd to the last , he crops the flow ...
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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.