An Essay on Man: In Four Epistles to H. St. John, Lord Bolingbroke, to which is Added The Universal PrayerS. Andrus, 1824 - 67 Seiten |
Im Buch
Ergebnisse 6-10 von 29
Seite 11
... 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 , why oaks are made Taller or ...
... 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 , why oaks are made Taller or ...
Seite 12
... d , their present state : From brutes what men , from men what spirits know ; Or who could suffer being here below ? 80 The lamb thy riot dooms to bleed to - day , he thy reason would he skip and play ? as'd 12 ESSAY ON MAN .
... d , their present state : From brutes what men , from men what spirits know ; Or who could suffer being here below ? 80 The lamb thy riot dooms to bleed to - day , he thy reason would he skip and play ? as'd 12 ESSAY ON MAN .
Seite 13
... reason would he skip and play ? as'd to the last , he crops the flowery food , 1 licks the hand just rais'd to shed his blood . lindness to the future ! kindly giv'n , at each may fill the circle mark'd by Heav'n ; 10 sees with equal ...
... reason would he skip and play ? as'd to the last , he crops the flowery food , 1 licks the hand just rais'd to shed his blood . lindness to the future ! kindly giv'n , at each may fill the circle mark'd by Heav'n ; 10 sees with equal ...
Seite 15
... reason right , is to submit . 165 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 ...
... reason right , is to submit . 165 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 ...
Seite 16
... reason - man is not a fly . Say what the use , were finer optics giv'n , 195 T ' inspect a mite , not comprehend the heav'n ? Or touch , if tremblingly alive all o'er , To smart and agonize at every pore ? Or quick effluvia darting ...
... reason - man is not a fly . Say what the use , were finer optics giv'n , 195 T ' inspect a mite , not comprehend the heav'n ? Or touch , if tremblingly alive all o'er , To smart and agonize at every pore ? Or quick effluvia darting ...
Andere Ausgaben - Alle anzeigen
Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
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...