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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If any man can unite all these without diminution of any of them , I freely confess he will compass a thing above my capacity . What is now published , is only to be considered a general map of man , marking out no more than the greater ...
If any man can unite all these without diminution of any of them , I freely confess he will compass a thing above my capacity . What is now published , is only to be considered a general map of man , marking out no more than the greater ...
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That we can judge only with regard to our own system , being ignorant of the relations of systems and things , ver . 17 , & c . to 69. That man is not to be deemed imperfect , but a being suited to his place and rank in the creation ...
That we can judge only with regard to our own system , being ignorant of the relations of systems and things , ver . 17 , & c . to 69. That man is not to be deemed imperfect , but a being suited to his place and rank in the creation ...
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Virtue and vice joined in our mixed nature ; the limits near , yet the things separate and evident . What is the office of reason , 187 , & c . How odious vice. powers 260 с 8 THE CONTENTS . ARGUMENT OF THE NATURE AND STATE OF MAN WITH.
Virtue and vice joined in our mixed nature ; the limits near , yet the things separate and evident . What is the office of reason , 187 , & c . How odious vice. powers 260 с 8 THE CONTENTS . ARGUMENT OF THE NATURE AND STATE OF MAN WITH.
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EPISTLE I. 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 ) Expatiate free o'er all this scene of man ; 5 A ...
EPISTLE I. 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 ) Expatiate free o'er all this scene of man ; 5 A ...
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160 From pride , from pride , our very reas'ning springs ; Account for moral , as for nat'ral things : Why charge we heav'n in those , in these acquit ? In both , to reason right is to submit .
160 From pride , from pride , our very reas'ning springs ; Account for moral , as for nat'ral things : Why charge we heav'n in those , in these acquit ? In both , to reason right is to submit .
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alike beneath blessing blest bliss breast charms common creature death earth ease EPISTLE equal ev'ry faith fall fame fear fire fool force forms gives grave grow half hand happiness head heart Heav'n honour hope hour human Italy kind kings land laws leave less lies lives looks lord luxury man's mankind means mind nature nature's never o'er once pain pass passions perfect pleasure poem poor pow'r pride principle proud reason rest rich rise rose round seen Self-love sense shade side smiling society soul sound spread stand strength strong sweet tell thee thine thing thou thro toil true truth turns universal unknown vice village virtue weak wealth whole wise wish
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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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