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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... taught to stray ar as the solar walk , or milky way ; et simple nature to his hope has giv'n , ehind the cloud - topt hill , an humbler heav'n ; ome safer world in depth of woods embrac'd , ome happier island in the wat'ry waste , 100 ...
... taught to stray ar as the solar walk , or milky way ; et simple nature to his hope has giv'n , ehind the cloud - topt hill , an humbler heav'n ; ome safer world in depth of woods embrac'd , ome happier island in the wat'ry waste , 100 ...
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... Taught half by reason , half by mere decay , To welcome death , and calmly pass away . 260 . Whate'er the passion , knowledge , fame , or pelf , Not one will change his neighbour with himself . The learn'd is happy nature to explore ...
... Taught half by reason , half by mere decay , To welcome death , and calmly pass away . 260 . Whate'er the passion , knowledge , fame , or pelf , Not one will change his neighbour with himself . The learn'd is happy nature to explore ...
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... taught the nations of the field and wood To shun their poison , and to choose their food ? Prescient , the tides or tempests to withstand , Build on the wave , or arch beneath the sand ? 90 95 100 Who made the spider parallels design ...
... taught the nations of the field and wood To shun their poison , and to choose their food ? Prescient , the tides or tempests to withstand , Build on the wave , or arch beneath the sand ? 90 95 100 Who made the spider parallels design ...
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... Taught to command the fire , control the flood , Draw forth the monsters of th ' abyss profound , Or fetch the aerial eagle to the ground ; Till drooping , sick'ning , dying , they began Whom they rever'd as God to mourn as man : Then ...
... Taught to command the fire , control the flood , Draw forth the monsters of th ' abyss profound , Or fetch the aerial eagle to the ground ; Till drooping , sick'ning , dying , they began Whom they rever'd as God to mourn as man : Then ...
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... taught souls enslav'd , and realms undone , Th ' enormous faith of many made for one ; That proud exception to all nature's laws , T'invert the world , and counter - work its cause ? Force first made conquest , and that conquest , law ...
... taught souls enslav'd , and realms undone , Th ' enormous faith of many made for one ; That proud exception to all nature's laws , T'invert the world , and counter - work its cause ? Force first made conquest , and that conquest , law ...
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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...