An Essay on Man: In Four Epistles to H. St. John Lord Bolinbroke. To which are Added the Universal Prayer, Messiah, and ElegyJ. Lowe, 1820 - 72 Seiten |
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... fall , Atoms , or systems into ruin hul'd , And now a bubble burst , and now a world ! Hope humbly then ; with trembling pinions soar ; Wait the great teacher Death , and God adore ! What future bliss he gives not thee to know , But ...
... fall , Atoms , or systems into ruin hul'd , And now a bubble burst , and now a world ! Hope humbly then ; with trembling pinions soar ; Wait the great teacher Death , and God adore ! What future bliss he gives not thee to know , But ...
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... Tenth , or ten thousandth , breaks the chain alike . And , if each system in gradation roll Alike essential to th ' amazing whole ; The least confusion but in one , not all That system only , but the whole must fall . 14 ESSAY ON MAN ,
... Tenth , or ten thousandth , breaks the chain alike . And , if each system in gradation roll Alike essential to th ' amazing whole ; The least confusion but in one , not all That system only , but the whole must fall . 14 ESSAY ON MAN ,
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... fall . Let earth unbalanc'd from her orbit fly , Planets and suns run lawless through the sky : Let ruling angels from their spheres be hurl'd , Being on being wreck'd , and world on world ; Heaven's whole foundations to their centre ...
... fall . Let earth unbalanc'd from her orbit fly , Planets and suns run lawless through the sky : Let ruling angels from their spheres be hurl'd , Being on being wreck'd , and world on world ; Heaven's whole foundations to their centre ...
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... 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 ! Go , wond'rous creature ! mount where science guides , I Go measure earth , weigh air ...
... 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 ! Go , wond'rous creature ! mount where science guides , I Go measure earth , weigh air ...
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... bounds invade , As , in some well - wrought picture , light and shade And oft so mix , the diff'rence is too nice Where ends the virtue , or begins the vice .. Fools ! who from hence into the notion fall , 26 ESSAY ON MAN .
... bounds invade , As , in some well - wrought picture , light and shade And oft so mix , the diff'rence is too nice Where ends the virtue , or begins the vice .. Fools ! who from hence into the notion fall , 26 ESSAY ON MAN .
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act the soul alike ambition angels assign'd beast behold blessing blest abodes blind bliss blood breath Cæsar Catiline chain confest creature crown'd death diff'rence E'en earth ease eternal ethereal ev'ry eyes faith fall fame fear feel fix'd flood flow'ry fool foreign hands thy form'd gen'ral gives glory God's gods gradation happiness heart Heaven heroes honor'd hope human indolent instinct int'rest justice kings knave laws Learn learn'd life's lives Lord man's mankind MESSIAH mind monarch mountains mourn nature nature's nature's law ne'er never o'er pain passion peace perfect plac'd Pleas'd pleasure pride proud race reas'ning reign rest rill rise Self-love and Social sense sev'ral shade sire skies slaves sphere springs taught tempest thee thine things thou thy reason toil tyrant vice or virtue virtue's weak Whate'er whole wise
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Seite 57 - Who wickedly is wise, or madly brave, Is but the more a fool, the more a knave. Who noble ends by noble means obtains, Or failing, smiles in exile or in chains, Like good Aurelius let him reign, or bleed Like Socrates, that man is great indeed. What's fame? a fancied life in others' breath, A thing beyond us, ev'n before our death.
Seite 66 - What conscience dictates to be done, Or warns me not to do, This, teach me more than hell to shun, That, more than heaven pursue.
Seite 56 - Go ! if your ancient, but ignoble blood Has crept through scoundrels ever since the flood, Go ! and pretend your family is young ; Nor own, your fathers have been fools so long. What can ennoble sots, or slaves, or cowards ? Alas ! not all the blood of all the HOWARDS.
Seite 14 - See through this air, this ocean, and this earth, All matter quick, and bursting into birth! Above, how high progressive life may go ! Around, how wide ! how deep extend below ! Vast chain of being! which from God began; Natures ethereal, human, angel, man, Beast, bird, fish, insect, what no eye can see, No glass can reach; from infinite to thee; From thee to nothing...
Seite 18 - Go, wondrous creature! mount where Science guides; Go, measure earth, weigh air, and state the tides; Instruct the planets in what orbs to run, Correct old Time, and regulate the sun; Go, soar with Plato to th...
Seite 7 - Heaven from all creatures hides the book of fate, All but the page prescribed, their present state: From brutes what men, from men what spirits know: Or who could suffer being here below? The lamb thy riot dooms to bleed today, Had he thy reason, would he skip and play? Pleased to the last, he crops the flowery food, And licks the hand just raised to shed his blood.
Seite 16 - 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.
Seite 13 - Man's imperial race from the green myriads in the peopled grass : what modes of sight betwixt each wide extreme, the mole's dim curtain, and the lynx's beam ; of smell, the headlong lioness between, and hound sagacious on the tainted green ; of hearing, from the life that fills the flood, to that which warbles through the vernal wood; the spider's touch how exquisitely fine ! feels at each thread, and lives along the line...
Seite 70 - See heaven its sparkling portals wide display, And break upon thee in a flood of day.
Seite 62 - Pursues that chain which links th' immense design, Joins heav'n and earth, and mortal and divine; Sees, that no being any bliss can know, But touches some above, and some below; Learns, from this union of the rising whole, The first, last purpose of the human soul ; And knows where faith, law, morals, all began, All end, in love of God, and love of man.