Elegant poems. Pope's Essay on man, Blair's Grave, Gray's Elegy, Goldsmith's Traveller, and Goldsmith's Deserted village |
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The unreasonableness of his complaints against provi . deuce , while on the one hand he demands the perfections of the angels , and on the other hand the bodily qualifications of the brutes , 165. Though to possess any of the sensitive ...
The unreasonableness of his complaints against provi . deuce , while on the one hand he demands the perfections of the angels , and on the other hand the bodily qualifications of the brutes , 165. Though to possess any of the sensitive ...
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Pleas'd to the last , he crops the flow'ry food , And licks the hand just rais'd to shed his blood . Oh ! blindness to the future ! kindly givin , That each may fill the circle mark'd by heav'n ; Who sees , with equal eye , as God of ...
Pleas'd to the last , he crops the flow'ry food , And licks the hand just rais'd to shed his blood . Oh ! blindness to the future ! kindly givin , That each may fill the circle mark'd by heav'n ; Who sees , with equal eye , as God of ...
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... Yet cry , if man's unhappy , God's unjust ; If man alone engross not heav'n's high care , Alone made perfect here , immortal there ; 120 Snatch from his hand the balance and the rod , Re - judge his justice , be the God of God .
... Yet cry , if man's unhappy , God's unjust ; If man alone engross not heav'n's high care , Alone made perfect here , immortal there ; 120 Snatch from his hand the balance and the rod , Re - judge his justice , be the God of God .
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Who knows but he , whose 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 mankind ? 160 From pride , from pride , our very ...
Who knows but he , whose 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 mankind ? 160 From pride , from pride , our very ...
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What if the foot , ordain'd the dust to tread , Or hand , to toil , aspir'd to be the head ? 260 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 ...
What if the foot , ordain'd the dust to tread , Or hand , to toil , aspir'd to be the head ? 260 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 ...
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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.
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| Título | Elegant poems. Pope's Essay on man, Blair's Grave, Gray's Elegy, Goldsmith's Traveller, and Goldsmith's Deserted village |
| Autor | Elegant poems |
| Publicado | 1814 |
| Original de | Oxford University |
| Digitalizado | 26 set. 2006 |
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