An Essay on Man: In Four Epistles to H. St. John, Lord Bolingbroke, to which is Added The Universal PrayerS. Andrus, 1824 - 67 Seiten |
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... beast , each insect , happy in its own ; Is heaven unkind to man , and man alone ? Shall he alone , whom rational we call , 185 Be pleas'd with nothing , if not bless'd with all ? The bliss of man ( could pride that blessing find ) Is ...
... beast , each insect , happy in its own ; Is heaven unkind to man , and man alone ? Shall he alone , whom rational we call , 185 Be pleas'd with nothing , if not bless'd with all ? The bliss of man ( could pride that blessing find ) Is ...
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... Beast , bird , fish , insect ! what no eye can see , No glass can reach ; from infinite to thee ; From thee to nothing - On superior pow'rs Were we to press , inferior might on ours : Or in the full creation leave a void , Where , one ...
... Beast , bird , fish , insect ! what no eye can see , No glass can reach ; from infinite to thee ; From thee to nothing - On superior pow'rs Were we to press , inferior might on ours : Or in the full creation leave a void , Where , one ...
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... beast ; In doubt his mind or body to prefer , Born but to die , and reas'ning but to err ; Alike in ignorance , his reason such , Whether he thinks too little or too much : Chaos of thought and passion , all confus'd ; Still by himself ...
... beast ; In doubt his mind or body to prefer , Born but to die , and reas'ning but to err ; Alike in ignorance , his reason such , Whether he thinks too little or too much : Chaos of thought and passion , all confus'd ; Still by himself ...
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... beast in aid of man , and man of beast ; All serv'd , all serving : nothing stands alone ; The chain holds on , and where it ends , unknown . Has God , thou fool ! work'd solely for thy good , Thy joy , thy pastime , thy attire , thy ...
... beast in aid of man , and man of beast ; All serv'd , all serving : nothing stands alone ; The chain holds on , and where it ends , unknown . Has God , thou fool ! work'd solely for thy good , Thy joy , thy pastime , thy attire , thy ...
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... beasts his pastures , and to fish his floods ; For some his int'rest prompts him to provide , For more his pleasure , yet for more his pride : 199 45 50 55 55 60 All feed on one vain patron , and enjoy The extensive blessing of his ...
... beasts his pastures , and to fish his floods ; For some his int'rest prompts him to provide , For more his pleasure , yet for more his pride : 199 45 50 55 55 60 All feed on one vain patron , and enjoy The extensive blessing of his ...
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acts the soul alike angels ARGUMENT OF EPISTLE beast blessing blest blind bliss breath Catiline chain charity comets confest creature death diff'rence earth ease EPISTLE IV Essay eternal ethereal Ev'n ev'ry faith fame father fear fix'd folly fool form'd forms gen'ral giv'n gives gods happiness heart Heav'n honour hope human imperfect indolent instinct int'rest justice kings knave Learn learn'd lives Lord man's mankind mind mix'd monarch moral nature nature's nature's law never o'er O'erlook'd pain passion peace perfect plac'd planets pleasure poet Pope pow'rs pride principle proper Racine reas'ning religion rill rise seen double self-love and social sense seraph sev'ral shade sire skies Socrates Sonnet sphere taught tempests thee thine things thou toil truth Turenne Twas tyrant Universal Prayer virtue's weak Whate'er whole wise
Beliebte Passagen
Seite 10 - 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...
Seite 46 - I'll tell you, friend, a wise man and a fool. You'll find, if once the monarch acts the monk, Or, cobbler-like, the parson will be drunk, Worth makes the man, and want of it the fellow : The rest is all but leather or prunello.
Seite 17 - 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.
Seite 50 - Yet not to earth's contracted span Thy goodness let me bound, Or think Thee Lord alone of man. When thousand worlds are round.
Seite 40 - Some place the bliss in action, some in ease, Those call it pleasure, and contentment these: Some sunk to beasts, find pleasure end in pain ; Some swell'd to gods, confess e'en virtue vain!
Seite 40 - Twin'd with the wreaths 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...
Seite 50 - Teach me to feel another's woe, To hide the fault I see; That mercy I to others show, That mercy show to me.
Seite 46 - Honour and shame from no condition rise ; Act well your part, there all the honour lies.
Seite 51 - 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.
Seite 48 - Correct with spirit, eloquent with ease, Intent to reason, or polite to please. O ! while along the stream of Time thy name Expanded flies, and gathers all its fame, Say, shall my little bark attendant sail, Pursue the triumph, and partake the gale...