Pope's Essay on Man, Ed. , with Annotations and C. by J. Hunter

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1879 edition. Excerpt: ...horned head of that deity; in reference to which Pope says, in his Temple of Fame, 154, 'And his horned head belied the Libyan god.' Better for us, perhaps, it might appear, 165 Were there all harmony, all virtue here; That never air or ocean felt the wind; That never passion discomposed the mind. But all subsists by elemental strife; And passions are the elements of life. 170 The general order, since the whole began, Is kept in nature, and is kept in man. VI. What would this man? Now upward will he soar, And, little less than angel, would be more! Now looking downwards, just as grieved appears 175 To want the strength of bulls, the fur of bears. Made for his use all creatures if he call, Say what their use, had he the powers of all 1 Nature to these without profusion kind, The proper organs, proper powers assigned; 180 Each seeming want compensated of course, Here with degrees of swiftness, there of force: All in exact proportion to the state; Nothing to add, and nothing to abate: Each beast, each insect, happy in its own: 185 Is Heaven unkind to man, and man alone? Shall he alone, whom rational we call, Be pleased with nothing, if not blest with all? The bliss of man (could pride that blessing find) Is--not to act or think beyond mankind; 190 No powers of body or of soul to share, But what his nature and his state can bear. 169. But all subsists, $c. 175. Grieved, Injured, ag Fire, air, earth, and water are grieved. usefully antagonistic; so are the 184. Nothing to add, $c. So passions. as to add nothing to and to abate 174. Little less than angel. nothing from what the state Ps. viii. 5, ' Thou hast made him required. a little lower than the angels.' 185. Its own. Its own state. Why has not man a microscopic eye 1 For this plain reason, .