An essay on man [by A. Pope]. With some humourous verses on the death of dean Swift, written by himselfPrinted, & sold by the Booksellers of London & Westminster, 1736 - 32 páginas |
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... Place and Rank in the Creation , a- greeable to the General Order of Things , and con- formable to Ends and Relations to him unknown , 35 , c . It is partly upon this Ignorance of future Events , and partly upon the Hope of a Future ...
... Place and Rank in the Creation , a- greeable to the General Order of Things , and con- formable to Ends and Relations to him unknown , 35 , c . It is partly upon this Ignorance of future Events , and partly upon the Hope of a Future ...
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... Place , His Time a Moment , and a Point his Space . 65 70 Heav'n from all Creatures hides the Book of Fate , All but the Page , prefcrib'd their prefent State ; From Brutes what Men , from Men what Spirits know , 75 Or who could fuffer ...
... Place , His Time a Moment , and a Point his Space . 65 70 Heav'n from all Creatures hides the Book of Fate , All but the Page , prefcrib'd their prefent State ; From Brutes what Men , from Men what Spirits know , 75 Or who could fuffer ...
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... , attracted to , the next in Place , By Nature form'd its Neighbour to embrace . Behold it next with various Life fuftain , Prefs to one Centre fill , the Gen'ral Good . S 10 See , 15 See , dying Vegetables Life endu'd , See ,
... , attracted to , the next in Place , By Nature form'd its Neighbour to embrace . Behold it next with various Life fuftain , Prefs to one Centre fill , the Gen'ral Good . S 10 See , 15 See , dying Vegetables Life endu'd , See ,
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... place the Bliss in Action , fome in Ease , Those call it Pleasure , and Contentment these : Who thus define it , fay they more or less Than this , that Happiness is Happiness ? One grants his Pleasure is but Reft from Pain ; One doubts ...
... place the Bliss in Action , fome in Ease , Those call it Pleasure , and Contentment these : Who thus define it , fay they more or less Than this , that Happiness is Happiness ? One grants his Pleasure is but Reft from Pain ; One doubts ...
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... place Content . Fortune her Gifts may variously difpofe , And these be call'd unhappy , happy those ; But Heaven's juft Balance equal will appear , While those are plac'd in Hope , and these in Fear : Not prefent Good or Ill , the Joy ...
... place Content . Fortune her Gifts may variously difpofe , And these be call'd unhappy , happy those ; But Heaven's juft Balance equal will appear , While those are plac'd in Hope , and these in Fear : Not prefent Good or Ill , the Joy ...
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abfurd Afpiring againſt alike Beaſt Becauſe beft Behold beſt Bleffing blefs'd bleft Blifs Bliſs Caufe Cauſe Courſe Creature Dean DEAN SWIFT Death Defire deſtroy diff'rent dy'd e'er Eafe Earth Eaſe EPISTLE eternal Ev'n ev'ry fame fave Fear ferves fhall fhould fince firft firſt fix'd foar fome Fool form'd Friend ftill fuch fupply gen'ral giv'n gives Gole Gout Happineſs happy Heav'n himſelf Hope Inftinct Int'reft Itfelf juft Juftice Kings Knave Laft laſt Learn'd lefs leſs Love Man's Mankind Mind moft moſt muft muſt Nature Nature's never o'er Paffion Pain pleaſe Pleaſure Pow'r prefent Pride Profe Profpect raiſe Reafon reft reſtrain rife riſe Satyrs Self-Love Senfe ſerve ſhall Skreen Soul ſtill Syſtem taught thee thefe theſe thine Things thofe thoſe thou thouſand thro Tyrant underſtood Univerſe Vice Virtue Wants Weakneſs Whate'er whofe Whole whoſe wife Wiſdom worfe World
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Página 9 - With too much knowledge for the Sceptic side, With too much weakness for the Stoic's pride, He hangs between, in doubt to act or rest; In doubt to deem himself a God or Beast; In doubt his mind or body to prefer; Born but to die, and reas'ning but to err...
Página 30 - The only point where human bliss stands still, And tastes the good without the fall to ill ; Where only merit...
Página 10 - Created half to rise, and half to fall: Great lord of all things, yet a prey to all; Sole judge of truth, in endless error hurl'd; The glory jest, and riddle of the world!
Página 27 - 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 prunella.
Página 28 - Who wickedly is wise, or madly brave, Is but the more a fool, the more a knave.
Página 2 - Say first, of God above, or man below, What can we reason, but from what we know ? Of man, what see we but his station here, From which to reason, or to which refer ? Thro' worlds unnumber'd tho' the God be known, "Tis ours to trace him only in our own.
Página 10 - Man, but for that, no action could attend, And, but for this, were active to no end: Fix'd like a plant on his peculiar spot, To draw nutrition, propagate, and rot: Or, meteor-like, flame lawless through the void, Destroying others, by himself destroy'd.
Página 27 - The friar hooded, and the monarch crown'd. " What differ more (you cry) than crown and cowl !" I'll tell you, friend ! a wise man and a fool.
Página 18 - Joy tunes his voice, joy elevates his wings. Is it for thee the linnet pours his throat ? Loves of his own and raptures swell the note.
Página 1 - The latent tracts, the giddy heights, explore Of all who blindly creep, or sightless soar; Eye Nature's walks, shoot Folly as it flies, And catch the manners living as they rise; Laugh where we must, be candid where we can; But vindicate the ways of God to man.