An Essay on Man: In Four Epistles to H. St. John, Lord BolingbrokeH. Benton, 1824 - 48 Seiten |
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... fool ! Superior beings , when of late they saw A mortal man unfold all nature's law , Admir'd such wisdom in an earthly shape , And show'd a Newton as we show an ape . Could he , whose rules the rapid comet bind , Describe or fix one ...
... fool ! Superior beings , when of late they saw A mortal man unfold all nature's law , Admir'd such wisdom in an earthly shape , And show'd a Newton as we show an ape . Could he , whose rules the rapid comet bind , Describe or fix one ...
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... fool by fits is fair and wise , And ev❜n the best , by fits , what they despise . Tis but by parts we follow good or ill , 235 For , vice or virtue , self directs it still ; Each individual seeks a sev'ral goal ; But Heav'n's great ...
... fool by fits is fair and wise , And ev❜n the best , by fits , what they despise . Tis but by parts we follow good or ill , 235 For , vice or virtue , self directs it still ; Each individual seeks a sev'ral goal ; But Heav'n's great ...
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... fool is happy that he knows no more ; The rich is happy in the plenty giv'n , 285 The poor contents him with the care of Heav'n . See the blind beggar dance , the cripple sing , The sot a hero , lunatic a king ; The starving chymist in ...
... fool is happy that he knows no more ; The rich is happy in the plenty giv'n , 285 The poor contents him with the care of Heav'n . See the blind beggar dance , the cripple sing , The sot a hero , lunatic a king ; The starving chymist in ...
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... fool , yet God is wise . EPISTLE III . HERE then we rest : " The universal cause " Acts to one end , but acts by various laws . " In all the madness of superfluous health , The trim of pride , the impudence of wealth , Let this great ...
... fool , yet God is wise . EPISTLE III . HERE then we rest : " The universal cause " Acts to one end , but acts by various laws . " In all the madness of superfluous health , The trim of pride , the impudence of wealth , Let this great ...
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... fool ! work'd solely for thy good , Thy joy , thy pastime , thy attire , thy food ? Who for thy table feeds the wanton fawn , For him as kindly spread the flow'ry lawn . 30 Is it for thee the lark ascends and sings ? Joy tunes his voice ...
... fool ! work'd solely for thy good , Thy joy , thy pastime , thy attire , thy food ? Who for thy table feeds the wanton fawn , For him as kindly spread the flow'ry lawn . 30 Is it for thee the lark ascends and sings ? Joy tunes his voice ...
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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?