Pope. Essay on man, ed. by M. Pattison1878 |
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... think in nature's state they blindly trod ; The state of nature was the reign of God ; ' & c . Ess . 3. 147-168 . To explain the foundations of civil society , political theorists had had recourse to the hypothesis of a prior condition ...
... think in nature's state they blindly trod ; The state of nature was the reign of God ; ' & c . Ess . 3. 147-168 . To explain the foundations of civil society , political theorists had had recourse to the hypothesis of a prior condition ...
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... think , to read . The common and obvious thoughts satisfied every one . To go beyond the obvious was stigmatised as pedantry . He who best reflected the general sentiment was held in most esteem . The substance of their poetry was what ...
... think , to read . The common and obvious thoughts satisfied every one . To go beyond the obvious was stigmatised as pedantry . He who best reflected the general sentiment was held in most esteem . The substance of their poetry was what ...
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... think that the uniform French cæsura imparts too artificial and mechanical a character to their versification . The opinion of Dr. Blair seems not far from the truth , that ( Lectures , Lect . 38 ) ' it is a distinguishing advantage of ...
... think that the uniform French cæsura imparts too artificial and mechanical a character to their versification . The opinion of Dr. Blair seems not far from the truth , that ( Lectures , Lect . 38 ) ' it is a distinguishing advantage of ...
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... thinks , admitted to that equal sky , His faithful dog shall bear him company . Go , wiser thou ! and in thy scale of sense , Weigh thy opinion against providence ; Call imperfection what thou fancy'st such , Say , here he gives too ...
... thinks , admitted to that equal sky , His faithful dog shall bear him company . Go , wiser thou ! and in thy scale of sense , Weigh thy opinion against providence ; Call imperfection what thou fancy'st such , Say , here he gives too ...
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... think beyond mankind ; No pow'rs of body , or of soul to share , But what his nature and his state can bear . Why has not man a microscopic eye ? For this plain reason , man is not a fly . Say what the use , were finer optics giv'n , T ...
... think beyond mankind ; No pow'rs of body , or of soul to share , But what his nature and his state can bear . Why has not man a microscopic eye ? For this plain reason , man is not a fly . Say what the use , were finer optics giv'n , T ...
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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.