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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... thee ? 30 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 , Why form'd no weaker , blinder , and no less ! Ask of thy mother earth ...
... thee ? 30 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 , Why form'd no weaker , blinder , and no less ! Ask of thy mother earth ...
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... thee to know , It gives that hope to be thy blessing now . ope springs eternal in the human breast : an never is , but always to be blest . X 85 90 95 ie soul uneasy , and confin'd from home , ests and expatiates in a life to come . Lo ...
... thee to know , It gives that hope to be thy blessing now . ope springs eternal in the human breast : an never is , but always to be blest . X 85 90 95 ie soul uneasy , and confin'd from home , ests and expatiates in a life to come . Lo ...
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... thee ? The powers of all subdu'd by thee alone , Is not thy reason all these powers in one ? 220 225 230 VIII . See through this air , this ocean , and this earth , All matter quick , and bursting into birth . Above , how high ...
... thee ? The powers of all subdu'd by thee alone , Is not thy reason all these powers in one ? 220 225 230 VIII . See through this air , this ocean , and this earth , All matter quick , and bursting into birth . Above , how high ...
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... 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 step broken , the g eat scale's destroy'd : From nature's chain whatever link you strike ...
... 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 step broken , the g eat scale's destroy'd : From nature's chain whatever link you strike ...
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... thee . Submit . In this , or any other sphere , 285 Secure to be as blest as thou canst bear : Safe in the hand of one disposing Pow'r , Or in the natal , or the mortal hour . All nature is but art , unknown to thee ; All chance ...
... thee . Submit . In this , or any other sphere , 285 Secure to be as blest as thou canst bear : Safe in the hand of one disposing Pow'r , Or in the natal , or the mortal hour . All nature is but art , unknown to thee ; All chance ...
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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...