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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... light me rise ; " My footstool earth , my canopy the skies . " 13 14 But errs not nature from this gracious end , From burning suns when livid deaths descend , When earthquakes swallow , or when tempests sweep Towns to one grave , whole ...
... light me rise ; " My footstool earth , my canopy the skies . " 13 14 But errs not nature from this gracious end , From burning suns when livid deaths descend , When earthquakes swallow , or when tempests sweep Towns to one grave , whole ...
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... Make and maintain the balance of the mind : The lights and shades , whose well - accorded strife Gives all the strength and colour of our life . 720 100 55 95 Pleasures are ever in our hands or eyes , And ESSAY OM MAN . 23-
... Make and maintain the balance of the mind : The lights and shades , whose well - accorded strife Gives all the strength and colour of our life . 720 100 55 95 Pleasures are ever in our hands or eyes , And ESSAY OM MAN . 23-
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... light and darkness in our chaos join'd , What shall divide ? The God within the mind . Extremes in nature equal ends produce , In man they join to some mysterious use ; Though each by turns the other's bounds invade , 203 As in some ...
... light and darkness in our chaos join'd , What shall divide ? The God within the mind . Extremes in nature equal ends produce , In man they join to some mysterious use ; Though each by turns the other's bounds invade , 203 As in some ...
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... light , Man , like his Maker , saw that all was right To virtue , in the paths of pleasure trod , And own'd a father when he own'd a God . Love all the faith , and all th ' allegiance then ; For nature knew no right divine in men : No ...
... light , Man , like his Maker , saw that all was right To virtue , in the paths of pleasure trod , And own'd a father when he own'd a God . Love all the faith , and all th ' allegiance then ; For nature knew no right divine in men : No ...
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... patriot , rose but to restore 285 The faith and moral nature gave before ; Relum'd her ancient light , not kindled new ; If not God's image , yet his shadow drew : 1 Taught power's due use to people and to kings , 333 ESSAY ON MAN . 38.
... patriot , rose but to restore 285 The faith and moral nature gave before ; Relum'd her ancient light , not kindled new ; If not God's image , yet his shadow drew : 1 Taught power's due use to people and to kings , 333 ESSAY ON MAN . 38.
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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...