An Essay on Man: In Four Epistles to Henry St. John, Lord BolingbrokeDorr, Howland; Charles A. Mirick, printer, 1839 - 48 Seiten |
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... 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 ...
... 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 ...
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... skies , As men forever temp'rate , calm , and wise . If plagues or earthquakes break not heav'ns design , Why then a Borgia or a Cataline ? 150 Who knows but he , whose hand the lightning forms , Who heaves old ocean , and who wings the ...
... skies , As men forever temp'rate , calm , and wise . If plagues or earthquakes break not heav'ns design , Why then a Borgia or a Cataline ? 150 Who knows but he , whose hand the lightning forms , Who heaves old ocean , and who wings the ...
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... skies , Saw gods descend , and fiends infernal rise : Here fix'd the dreadful , there the blest abodes ; Fear made her devils , and weak hope her gods ; 255 Gods partial , changeful , passionate , unjust , Whose attributes were rage ...
... skies , Saw gods descend , and fiends infernal rise : Here fix'd the dreadful , there the blest abodes ; Fear made her devils , and weak hope her gods ; 255 Gods partial , changeful , passionate , unjust , Whose attributes were rage ...
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... in hope and these in fear : Not present good or ill , the joy or curse , But future views of better , or of worse . Oh sons of earth ! attempt ye still to rise , 70 By mountains pil'd on mountains to the skies ? Heaven ESSAY ON MΑ Ν . 37.
... in hope and these in fear : Not present good or ill , the joy or curse , But future views of better , or of worse . Oh sons of earth ! attempt ye still to rise , 70 By mountains pil'd on mountains to the skies ? Heaven ESSAY ON MΑ Ν . 37.
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... skies ? Heaven still with laughter the vain toil surveys , And buries madmen in the heaps they raise . 75 III . Know , all the good that individuals find , Or God and nature meant to mere mankind , Reason's whole pleasure , all the joys ...
... skies ? Heaven still with laughter the vain toil surveys , And buries madmen in the heaps they raise . 75 III . Know , all the good that individuals find , Or God and nature meant to mere mankind , Reason's whole pleasure , all the joys ...
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act the soul ALEXANDER POPE alike angels assign'd beast began behold blessing blest blind bliss blood breath Cataline chain cobbler creature crown'd death destroy'd diff'rent E'en earth ease EPISTLE equal eternal ev'ry faith fall fame father fear feel fix'd flow'ry folly fool form'd gain giv'n gives glory God's gods gradation grows happiness heaven HENRY ST hero hope human hurl'd imperfect indolent instinct kings Learn learn'd lives lord man's mankind mind mix'd monarch mortal mourn nature nature's nature's law never o'er pain passion peace perfect plac'd Pleas'd pleasure pow'rs pride principle proud reas'ning rest rill rise self-love and social sense sev'ral shade sire skies slaves sphere taught tempest thee thine things thinks thou Thro thy reason toil true tyrant unknown vice or virtue virtue's weak Whate'er whole wise