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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... common sense , and common ease . Remember , man , the Universal Cause ' Acts not by partial , but by gen'ral laws ; ' And makes what happiness we justly call , Subsist not in the good of one , but all . There's not a blessing ...
... common sense , and common ease . Remember , man , the Universal Cause ' Acts not by partial , but by gen'ral laws ; ' And makes what happiness we justly call , Subsist not in the good of one , but all . There's not a blessing ...
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... common blessing , as one common soul . But fortune's gifts , if each alike possest , And each were equal , must not all contest ? If then to all men happiness was meant , God in externals could not place content . Fortune her gifts may ...
... common blessing , as one common soul . But fortune's gifts , if each alike possest , And each were equal , must not all contest ? If then to all men happiness was meant , God in externals could not place content . Fortune her gifts may ...
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... common peace , that external goods be unequal , therefore happiness is not constituted in these . Ver . 65 ] The balance of human happiness kept equal ( notwithstanding externals ) by hope and fear . Ver . 75 ] In what the happiness of ...
... common peace , that external goods be unequal , therefore happiness is not constituted in these . Ver . 65 ] The balance of human happiness kept equal ( notwithstanding externals ) by hope and fear . Ver . 75 ] In what the happiness of ...
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... common remark , that the lives of men of letters are in general destitute of incident . But it is more particularly the case in such instances as that now before us , of a clergyman , who considered the duties of his profession as ...
... common remark , that the lives of men of letters are in general destitute of incident . But it is more particularly the case in such instances as that now before us , of a clergyman , who considered the duties of his profession as ...
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... common << poems . The language is such as Shakspeare would " have used ; yet he no where imitates Shakspeare , " or uses any expression of his . It is frugal and " chaste ; yet , upon occasion , highly poetical , with " out any ...
... common << poems . The language is such as Shakspeare would " have used ; yet he no where imitates Shakspeare , " or uses any expression of his . It is frugal and " chaste ; yet , upon occasion , highly poetical , with " out any ...
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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 88 - E'en in our ashes live their wonted fires. For thee, who, mindful of th' unhonour'd dead, Dost in these lines their artless tale relate; If chance, by lonely contemplation led, Some kindred spirit shall inquire thy fate — Haply some hoary-headed swain may say, ' Oft have we seen him at the peep of dawn Brushing with hasty steps the dews away To meet the sun upon the upland lawn.
Página 19 - 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 86 - Let not ambition mock their useful toil, Their homely joys, and destiny obscure; Nor grandeur hear with a disdainful smile The short and simple annals of the poor.
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
Página 115 - The chest contrived a double debt to pay, A bed by night, a chest of drawers by day...
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...