The Works of Alexander Pope, Esq: Essay on man. Moral essays. An essay on satireJ. Johnson, 1806 |
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... subject with our Author . It will be pleasant to compare two fuch writers : " Thee , O Father , this extent Of matter ; Thee , the fluggifh earth and tract Of feas , the heavens and heavenly fplendors feel Pervading , quickening ...
... subject with our Author . It will be pleasant to compare two fuch writers : " Thee , O Father , this extent Of matter ; Thee , the fluggifh earth and tract Of feas , the heavens and heavenly fplendors feel Pervading , quickening ...
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... subjects had been urged many years before any of the above - mentioned treatises appeared , namely 1678 , by that truly great scholar and divine Cudworth , in that ineftimable treasury of learning and philofophy his Intellectual Syftem ...
... subjects had been urged many years before any of the above - mentioned treatises appeared , namely 1678 , by that truly great scholar and divine Cudworth , in that ineftimable treasury of learning and philofophy his Intellectual Syftem ...
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... subject of his Introduction to the fecond , which treats of the Nature of Man . But here presently the accufers of Providence would be apt to object , and say , " Admit that we ran into an excefs , when we pre- tended to censure or ...
... subject of his Introduction to the fecond , which treats of the Nature of Man . But here presently the accufers of Providence would be apt to object , and say , " Admit that we ran into an excefs , when we pre- tended to censure or ...
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... that can be faid . It is degrading to the subject , to the idea of the " Superior Beings , " and to the character on whom it is meant as a pane- gyric . Who faw its fires here rise , and there defcend 68 EP . II . ESSAY ON MAN .
... that can be faid . It is degrading to the subject , to the idea of the " Superior Beings , " and to the character on whom it is meant as a pane- gyric . Who faw its fires here rise , and there defcend 68 EP . II . ESSAY ON MAN .
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... Subject , compound them , follow her and God . Love , Hope , and Joy , fair Pleafure's fmiling train , Hate , Fear , and Grief , the family of Pain , These mix'd with art , and to due bounds confin'd , Make and maintain the balance of ...
... Subject , compound them , follow her and God . Love , Hope , and Joy , fair Pleafure's fmiling train , Hate , Fear , and Grief , the family of Pain , These mix'd with art , and to due bounds confin'd , Make and maintain the balance of ...
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Página 56 - All discord, harmony not understood ; All partial evil, universal good : And, spite of pride, in erring reason's spite, One truth is clear, WHATEVER is, is RIGHT.
Página 52 - Lives through all life, extends through all extent, Spreads undivided, operates unspent ; Breathes in our soul, informs our mortal part, As full, as perfect in a hair as heart ; As full, as perfect in vile man that mourns, As the rapt seraph that adores and burns. To Him no high, no low, no great, no small ; He fills, He bounds, connects and equals all.
Página 64 - 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; Born but to die, and reas'ning but to err...
Página 147 - Parnassian laurels yield, Or reap'd in iron harvests of the field ? • Where grows ? — where grows it not? If vain our toil, We ought to blame the culture, not the soil...
Página 247 - I must paint it. Come then, the colours and the ground prepare ! Dip in the Rainbow, trick her off in Air ; Choose a firm Cloud, before it fall, and in it Catch, ere she change, the Cynthia of this minute.
Página 48 - To serve mere engines to the ruling mind ? Just as absurd for any part to claim To be another in this...
Página 105 - Who for thy table feeds the wanton fawn, For him as kindly spread the flow'ry lawn : Is it for thee the lark ascends and sings? Joy tunes his voice, joy elevates his wings.
Página 306 - Or in proud falls magnificently lost, But clear and artless, pouring through the plain Health to the sick, and solace to the swain.
Página 15 - Say first, of God above, or man below, What can we reason, but from what we know ? Of man, what see we but his station here, From which to reason, or to which refer ? Thro' worlds unnumber'd tho' the God be known, "Tis ours to trace him only in our own.
Página 65 - Created half to rise, and half to fall: Great lord of all things, yet a prey to all; Sole judge of truth, in endless error hurl'd; The glory jest, and riddle of the world!