Elegant poems. Pope's Essay on man, Blair's Grave, Gray's Elegy, Goldsmith's Traveller, and Goldsmith's Deserted village1814 |
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... hand he demands the perfec- tions of the angels , and on the other hand the bodily qualifications of the brutes , 165. Though to possess any of the sensitive faculties in a higher degree would render him miserable , 181 to 198. That ...
... hand he demands the perfec- tions of the angels , and on the other hand the bodily qualifications of the brutes , 165. Though to possess any of the sensitive faculties in a higher degree would render him miserable , 181 to 198. That ...
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... hand just rais'd to shed his blood . Oh ! blindness to the future ! kindly giv'n , That each may fill the circle mark'd by heav'n ; Who sees , with equal eye , as God of all , A hero perish , or a sparrow fall ; Atoms or systems into ...
... hand just rais'd to shed his blood . Oh ! blindness to the future ! kindly giv'n , That each may fill the circle mark'd by heav'n ; Who sees , with equal eye , as God of all , A hero perish , or a sparrow fall ; Atoms or systems into ...
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... hand the balance and the rod , Re - judge his justice , be the God of God . In pride , in reas'ning pride , our error lies ; All quit their sphere , and rush into the skies . Pride still is aiming at the blest abodes , Men would be ...
... hand the balance and the rod , Re - judge his justice , be the God of God . In pride , in reas'ning pride , our error lies ; All quit their sphere , and rush into the skies . Pride still is aiming at the blest abodes , Men would be ...
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... hand the lightning forms , Who heaves old ocean , and who wings the storms , Pours fierce ambition in a Cæsar's mind , Or turns young Ammon loose to scourge man- kind ? 160 From pride , from pride , our very reas'ning springs ; Account ...
... hand the lightning forms , Who heaves old ocean , and who wings the storms , Pours fierce ambition in a Cæsar's mind , Or turns young Ammon loose to scourge man- kind ? 160 From pride , from pride , our very reas'ning springs ; Account ...
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... hand , to toil , aspir'd to be the head ? What if the head , the eye , or ear repin'd To serve mere engines to the ruling Mind ? Just as absurd for any part to claim To be another , in this gen'ral frame : Just as absurd to mourn the ...
... hand , to toil , aspir'd to be the head ? What if the head , the eye , or ear repin'd To serve mere engines to the ruling Mind ? Just as absurd for any part to claim To be another , in this gen'ral frame : Just as absurd to mourn the ...
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alike Amidst beneath Blair blank verse bless'd blessing blest bliss blood boast breast breath charms climes creature dear death e'en e'er earth ease Elegy EPISTLE EPISTLE II eternal ev'n ev'ry fame fear fix'd flies fool form'd gen'ral giv'n grave hand happiness heart Heav'n honour hope hope and fear human instinct int'rest kings land laws learn'd looks lord luxury man's mankind mind monarch moral nature nature's ne'er never o'er OLIVER GOLDSMITH once pain passions plac'd Pleas'd pleasure poem poor pow'r pride proud reason reign rest rich rill rise Robert Blair round Self-love shade shame sire skies slave smiling society soul spread strength swain sweet SWEET AUBURN taught tell thee thine thing thou thro toil Twas tyrant vice village virtue weak wealth Whilst whole wise world unknown wretch yonder
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Página 114 - Beside yon straggling fence that skirts the way, With blossom'd furze unprofitably gay, There, in his noisy mansion, skill'd to rule, The village master taught his little school. A man severe he was, and stern to view; I knew him well, and every truant knew...
Página 18 - 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.
Página 112 - tis hard to combat, learns to fly! For him no wretches, born to work and weep, Explore the mine, or tempt the dangerous deep; No surly porter stands in guilty state, To spurn imploring famine from the gate...
Página 14 - In Pride, in reas'ning Pride, our error lies; All quit their sphere, and rush into the skies. Pride still is aiming at the blest abodes, Men would be Angels, Angels would be Gods. Aspiring to be Gods, if Angels fell, Aspiring to be Angels, Men rebel: And who but wishes to invert the laws Of Order, sins against th
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Página 118 - And, pinch'd with cold, and shrinking from the shower, With heavy heart deplores that luckless hour, When idly first, ambitious of the town, She left her wheel and robes of country brown.
Página 85 - And all the air a solemn stillness holds, Save where the beetle wheels his droning flight...