An Essay on Man: In Four Epistles, to H. St. John, Lord BolingbrokeClark, Austin & Company, 1852 - 72 Seiten |
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... thee ? II . Presumptuous man ! the reason wouldst thou find , 35 Why form'd so weak , so little , and so blind ? First , if thou canst , the harder reason guess , imper mord Why formed no weaker , blinder , and no less ? Ask of thy ...
... thee ? II . Presumptuous man ! the reason wouldst thou find , 35 Why form'd so weak , so little , and so blind ? First , if thou canst , the harder reason guess , imper mord Why formed no weaker , blinder , and no less ? Ask of thy ...
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... 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 . 95 Lo ...
... 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 . 95 Lo ...
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... thee , From thee to nothing . - On superior powers Were we to press , inferior might on ours ; Or in the full creation leave a void , [ stroy'd : There Where , one step broken , the great scale's de- From nature's chain whatever link ...
... thee , From thee to nothing . - On superior powers Were we to press , inferior might on ours ; Or in the full creation leave a void , [ stroy'd : There Where , one step broken , the great scale's de- From nature's chain whatever link ...
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... thee ? Vile worm ! -O madness ! pride ! impiety ! would be the rosea 256 IX . What if the foot , ordained the dust to tread , Or hand , to toil , aspired to be the head ? What if the head , the eye , or ear , repined 260 To serve mere ...
... thee ? Vile worm ! -O madness ! pride ! impiety ! would be the rosea 256 IX . What if the foot , ordained the dust to tread , Or hand , to toil , aspired to be the head ? What if the head , the eye , or ear , repined 260 To serve mere ...
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... thee . Submit . In this , or any other sphere , Secure to be as blest as thou canst bear : Safe in the hand of one disposing Power , Or in the natal , or the mortal hour . All nature is but art , unknown to thee ; All chance , direction ...
... thee . Submit . In this , or any other sphere , Secure to be as blest as thou canst bear : Safe in the hand of one disposing Power , Or in the natal , or the mortal hour . All nature is but art , unknown to thee ; All chance , direction ...
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act the soul agreeing alike ambition Ammon angels apposition beast blessing blest bliss breath Cæsar Catiline chain confest connected creature Decius degree divine earth EPISTLE ethereal Ev'n false mirror fame fear fix'd fool Form'd gives gods govern happier happiness Heaven hope human imitating God instinct joy or curse Julius Cæsar kings knave laws Learn learn'd live look lord man's mankind Marseilles means mind monarch nature's nature's law never note to line noun object pain participle passion planets Pleas'd pleasure poet pours prep preposition pride pronoun reign rill rise Rubicon self-love and social sense sire slave Socrates sphere stoics stuck o'er substantive phrase taught tence thee things thou art thy reason toil touch truth Turenne Twixt tyrant understood verb virtue's virtuous weak Whate'er whole wise wrong