An Essay on Man: In Four Epistles to H. St. John, Lord Bolingbroke, to which is Added The Universal PrayerS. Andrus, 1824 - 67 páginas |
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... passion discompos'd the mind ; But all subsists by elemental strife ; • And passions are the elements of life . The gen❜ral order , since the whole began , Ís kept in nature , and is kept in man . 170 VI . What would this man ? now ...
... passion discompos'd the mind ; But all subsists by elemental strife ; • And passions are the elements of life . The gen❜ral order , since the whole began , Ís kept in nature , and is kept in man . 170 VI . What would this man ? now ...
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... passion , all confus'd ; Still by himself abus'd or disabus'd ; Created half to rise , and half to fall ; 5 10 15 Great lord of all things , yet a prey to all ; Sole judge of truth , in endless error hurl'd ; The glory , jest , and ...
... passion , all confus'd ; Still by himself abus'd or disabus'd ; Created half to rise , and half to fall ; 5 10 15 Great lord of all things , yet a prey to all ; Sole judge of truth , in endless error hurl'd ; The glory , jest , and ...
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... passion is undone . Trace science , then , with modesty thy guide ; First strip off all her equipage of pride ; Deduct what is but vanity , or dress , 35 35 40 45 Or learning's luxury , or idleness ; Or tricks to show the stretch of ...
... passion is undone . Trace science , then , with modesty thy guide ; First strip off all her equipage of pride ; Deduct what is but vanity , or dress , 35 35 40 45 Or learning's luxury , or idleness ; Or tricks to show the stretch of ...
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... passion is the gale ; Nor God alone in the still calm we find , He mounts the storm , and walks upon the wind . 110 Passions , like elements , though born to fight , Yet , mix'd and soften'd , in his work unite : These ' tis enough to ...
... passion is the gale ; Nor God alone in the still calm we find , He mounts the storm , and walks upon the wind . 110 Passions , like elements , though born to fight , Yet , mix'd and soften'd , in his work unite : These ' tis enough to ...
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... passion in the breast , Like Aaron's serpent , swallows up the rest . As man , perhaps , the moment of his breath , Receives the lurking principle of death ; The young disease , that must subdue at length , 125 130 135 Grows with his ...
... passion in the breast , Like Aaron's serpent , swallows up the rest . As man , perhaps , the moment of his breath , Receives the lurking principle of death ; The young disease , that must subdue at length , 125 130 135 Grows with his ...
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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
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Página 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...
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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!
Página 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...
Página 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.
Página 46 - Honour and shame from no condition rise ; Act well your part, there all the honour lies.
Página 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.
Página 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...