An Essay on Man: In Four Epistles to H. St. John, Lord BolingbrokeH. Benton, 1824 - 48 Seiten |
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... Better for us , perhaps it might appear , Were there all harmony , all virtue here ; That never air or ocean felt the wind ; That never passion discompos'd the mind ; But all subsists by elemental strife ; And passions are the elements ...
... Better for us , perhaps it might appear , Were there all harmony , all virtue here ; That never air or ocean felt the wind ; That never passion discompos'd the mind ; But all subsists by elemental strife ; And passions are the elements ...
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... better , or of worse . O sons of earth ! attempt ye still to rise , By mountains pil'd on mountains , to the skies ? Heaven still with laughter the vain toil surveys , And buries madmen in the heaps they raise . Know , all the good that ...
... better , or of worse . O sons of earth ! attempt ye still to rise , By mountains pil'd on mountains , to the skies ? Heaven still with laughter the vain toil surveys , And buries madmen in the heaps they raise . Know , all the good that ...
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... better shall we have ?, A kingdom of the just then let it be : But first consider how those just agree . The good must merit God's peculiar care ; 135 But who , but God , can tell us who they are ? One thinks on Calvin Heaven's own ...
... better shall we have ?, A kingdom of the just then let it be : But first consider how those just agree . The good must merit God's peculiar care ; 135 But who , but God , can tell us who they are ? One thinks on Calvin Heaven's own ...
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... better would you fix ? Then give humility a coach and six , 170 Justice a conqu'ror's sword , or truth a gown , Or public spirit , its great cure , a crown . Weak , foolish man ! will Heav'n reward us there With the same trash mad ...
... better would you fix ? Then give humility a coach and six , 170 Justice a conqu'ror's sword , or truth a gown , Or public spirit , its great cure , a crown . Weak , foolish man ! will Heav'n reward us there With the same trash mad ...
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... better were resign'd , Is hung on high , to poison half mankind . All fame is foreign , but of true desert ; Plays round the head , but comes not to the heart : One self - approving hour whole years outweighs Of stupid starers , and of ...
... better were resign'd , Is hung on high , to poison half mankind . All fame is foreign , but of true desert ; Plays round the head , but comes not to the heart : One self - approving hour whole years outweighs Of stupid starers , and of ...
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acts the soul ALEXANDER POPE alike angels ARGUMENT OF EPISTLE beast bless'd blessing blest blind bliss breath Catiline cause chain 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 pain passion peace perfect plac'd planets Pleas'd pleasure poet Pope pow'rs pride principle proper religion rill rise seen double self-love and social sense seraph sev'ral sire skies Socrates sphere taught tempests thee thine things thou toil truth Turenne Twas tyrant virtue's weak Whate'er whole wise YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY
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Seite 19 - 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 20 - With too much weakness for the Stoic's pride, He hangs between; in doubt to act, or rest; In doubt to deem himself a God, or Beast; In doubt his Mind or Body to prefer; Born but to die, and...
Seite 53 - What Conscience dictates to be done, Or warns me not to do; This teach me more than Hell to shun, That more than Heav'n pursue. What blessings thy free bounty gives Let me not cast away; For God is paid when man receives; T
Seite 12 - 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 to-day, 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 10 - The latent tracts, the giddy heights, explore Of all who blindly creep, or sightless soar; Eye Nature's walks, shoot folly as it flies, And catch the manners living as they rise ; , Laugh where we must, be candid where we can, But vindicate the ways of God to man.
Seite 13 - Lo the poor Indian ! whose untutor'd mind Sees God in clouds, or hears him in the wind ; His soul, proud science never taught to stray Far as the solar walk, or milky way...
Seite 13 - 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 gives that Hope to be thy blessing now.
Seite 54 - 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 54 - Let not this weak, unknowing hand Presume Thy bolts to throw, And deal damnation round the land, On each I judge Thy foe.
Seite 56 - Hark! they whisper; Angels say, Sister Spirit, come away. What is this absorbs me quite? Steals my senses, shuts my sight, Drowns my spirits, draws my breath?