An Essay on Man: To which are Added, the Universal Prayer, and Other Valuable Pieces, Selected from His WorksM'Carty and Davis, 1821 - 72 páginas |
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... gives not thee to know , But gives that hope to be thy blessing now . Hope springs eternal in the human breast : Man never is , but always to be blest ; The soul , uneasy and confin'd from home , Rests and expatiates in a life to come ...
... gives not thee to know , But gives that hope to be thy blessing now . Hope springs eternal in the human breast : Man never is , but always to be blest ; The soul , uneasy and confin'd from home , Rests and expatiates in a life to come ...
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... gives too little , there too much : Destroy all creatures for thy sport or gust , Yet cry , If man's unhappy , God's unjust ; If man alone engross not heav'n's high care , Alone made perfect here , immortal there : Snatch from his hand ...
... gives too little , there too much : Destroy all creatures for thy sport or gust , Yet cry , If man's unhappy , God's unjust ; If man alone engross not heav'n's high care , Alone made perfect here , immortal there : Snatch from his hand ...
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... gives , and what denies ? VII . Far as creation's ample range extends , The scale of sensual , mental pow'rs ascends ; Mark how it mounts to man's imperial race , From the green myriads in the peopled grass : What modes of sight ...
... gives , and what denies ? VII . Far as creation's ample range extends , The scale of sensual , mental pow'rs ascends ; Mark how it mounts to man's imperial race , From the green myriads in the peopled grass : What modes of sight ...
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... due bounds confin'd , Make and maintain the balance of the mind : The lights and shades , whose well accorded strife , Gives all the strength and colour of our life . 120 Pleasures are ever in our hands or eyes ; And EPISTLE II . 21.
... due bounds confin'd , Make and maintain the balance of the mind : The lights and shades , whose well accorded strife , Gives all the strength and colour of our life . 120 Pleasures are ever in our hands or eyes ; And EPISTLE II . 21.
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... gives it edge and power- As heaven's blest beam turns vinegar more sour : We , wretched subjects , though to lawful sway , In this weak queen , some fav'rite still obey . 150 Ah ! if she lend not arms , as well 22 ESSAY ON MAN .
... gives it edge and power- As heaven's blest beam turns vinegar more sour : We , wretched subjects , though to lawful sway , In this weak queen , some fav'rite still obey . 150 Ah ! if she lend not arms , as well 22 ESSAY ON MAN .
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Términos y frases comunes
act the soul alike ambition angels beast behold blessing blind bliss breath chain cobbler confest confin'd creature crown'd death E'er earth ease EPISTLE eternal Ev'n ev'ry eyes faith fall fame father fear fix'd flood flow'r fool foreign hands thy forever form'd future GANSEVOORT giv❜n gives glory God's Gods gold gradation happiness heart heav'n Heroes hope human imperfection indolent instinct justice kings knave laws Learn learn'd living Lord man's mankind MESSIAH mind mix'd monarch moral mountains mourn nature nature's nature's law never Nymph o'er pain passions peace perfect plac'd Pleas'd pleasure pow'r pride proud Rhine rill rise self-love and social sense seraph shade shine sire skies slaves sphere spleen springs taught tear tempests thee thine things thou thro TILDEN toil trembles truth tyrant virtue's weak Whate'er whole wings wise
Pasajes populares
Página 64 - Happy the man*, whose wish and care A few paternal acres bound, Content to breathe his native air In his own ground. Whose herds with milk, whose fields with bread, Whose flocks supply him with attire, Whose trees in summer yield him shade, In winter, fire.
Página 58 - What conscience dictates to be done, Or warns me not to do, This teach me more than hell to shun, That, more than heav'n pursue.
Página 59 - Teach me to feel another's woe, To hide the fault I see; That mercy I to others show, That mercy show to me.
Página 16 - Or in the natal, or the mortal hour. All nature is but art, unknown to thee; All chance, direction, which thou canst not see ; All discord, harmony not understood; All partial evil, universal good. And, spite of pride, in erring reason's spite, One truth is clear,
Página 6 - AWAKE, my St. John ! leave all meaner things To low ambition and -the pride of kings. Let us (since life can little more supply Than just to look about us and to die...
Página 9 - 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 17 - Know then thyself, presume not God to scan, The proper study of mankind is man. Placed on this isthmus of a middle state, A being darkly wise, and rudely great: With too much knowledge for the sceptic side, With too much weakness for the Stoic's pride, He hangs between; in doubt to act, or rest; In doubt to deem himself a God, or beast; In doubt his mind or body to prefer...
Página 50 - Honour and shame from no condition rise ; Act well your part, there all the honour lies.
Página 63 - O'erflow thy courts : the Light himself shall shine Reveal'd, and God's eternal day be thine ! The seas shall waste, the skies in smoke decay, Rocks fall to dust, and mountains melt away ; But fix'd his word, his saving power remains; Thy realm for ever lasts, thy own MESSIAH reigns !" My dear children, make this king of Zion your friend, by sweetly submitting to the sceptre of his grace.
Página 10 - Pride, our error lies; All quit their sphere, and rush into the skies. Pride still is aiming at the blest abodes, Men would be Angels, Angels would be Gods. Aspiring to be Gods, if Angels fell, Aspiring to be Angels, Men rebel: And who but wishes to invert the laws Of Order, sins against th