An Essay on Man: In Four Epistles to H. St. John, Lord BolingbrokeH. Benton, 1824 - 48 σελίδες |
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Σελίδα 15
... wise . 145 150 If plagues or earthquakes break not Heaven's design , Why then a Borgia or a Catiline ? " 156 Who knows but he , whose hand the lightning forms , Who heaves old ocean , and who wings the storms , Pours fierce ambition in ...
... wise . 145 150 If plagues or earthquakes break not Heaven's design , Why then a Borgia or a Catiline ? " 156 Who knows but he , whose hand the lightning forms , Who heaves old ocean , and who wings the storms , Pours fierce ambition in ...
Σελίδα 16
... with the music of the spheres , How would he wish that Heav'n had left him still The whispering zephyr , and the purling rill ? Who finds not Providence all good and wise , 205 Alike in what it gives , and what denies ? 16 ESSAY ON MAN .
... with the music of the spheres , How would he wish that Heav'n had left him still The whispering zephyr , and the purling rill ? Who finds not Providence all good and wise , 205 Alike in what it gives , and what denies ? 16 ESSAY ON MAN .
Σελίδα 20
... wise , and rudely great : With too much knowledge for the sceptic's side , With too much weakness for the stoic's pride , He hangs between in doubt to act or rest ; In doubts to deem himself a god or beast ; In doubt his mind or body to ...
... wise , and rudely great : With too much knowledge for the sceptic's side , With too much weakness for the stoic's pride , He hangs between in doubt to act or rest ; In doubts to deem himself a god or beast ; In doubt his mind or body to ...
Σελίδα 27
... wise , And ev❜n the best , by fits , what they despise . Tis but by parts we follow good or ill , 235 For , vice or virtue , self directs it still ; Each individual seeks a sev'ral goal ; But Heav'n's great view is one , and that the ...
... wise , And ev❜n the best , by fits , what they despise . Tis but by parts we follow good or ill , 235 For , vice or virtue , self directs it still ; Each individual seeks a sev'ral goal ; But Heav'n's great view is one , and that the ...
Σελίδα 29
... wise . EPISTLE III . HERE then we rest : " The universal cause " Acts to one end , but acts by various laws . " In all the madness of superfluous health , The trim of pride , the impudence of wealth , Let this great truth be present ...
... wise . EPISTLE III . HERE then we rest : " The universal cause " Acts to one end , but acts by various laws . " In all the madness of superfluous health , The trim of pride , the impudence of wealth , Let this great truth be present ...
Άλλες εκδόσεις - Προβολή όλων
An Essay on Man: In Four Epistles, to H.St.John, Lord Bolingbroke Alexander Pope Πλήρης προβολή - 1867 |
An Essay on Man: In Four Epistles, to H. St. John, Lord Bolingbroke Alexander Pope Πλήρης προβολή - 1824 |
An Essay on Man: In Four Epistles, to H. St. John, Lord Bolingbroke Alexander Pope Πλήρης προβολή - 1852 |
Συχνά εμφανιζόμενοι όροι και φράσεις
acts the soul ALEXANDER POPE alike angels ARGUMENT OF EPISTLE beast bless'd blessing blest blind bliss breath Catiline cause chain 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 pain passion peace perfect plac'd planets Pleas'd pleasure poet Pope pow'rs pride principle proper religion rill rise seen double self-love and social sense seraph sev'ral sire skies Socrates sphere taught tempests thee thine things thou toil truth Turenne Twas tyrant virtue's weak Whate'er whole wise YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY
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Σελίδα 19 - 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.
Σελίδα 20 - 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...
Σελίδα 53 - What Conscience dictates to be done, Or warns me not to do; This teach me more than Hell to shun, That more than Heav'n pursue. What blessings thy free bounty gives Let me not cast away; For God is paid when man receives; T
Σελίδα 12 - Heaven from all creatures hides the book of Fate, All but the page prescribed, their present state: From brutes what men, from men what spirits know: Or who could suffer being here below? The lamb thy riot dooms to bleed to-day, Had he thy reason, would he skip and play? Pleased to the last, he crops the flowery food, And licks the hand just raised to shed his blood.
Σελίδα 10 - 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.
Σελίδα 13 - Lo the poor Indian ! whose untutor'd mind Sees God in clouds, or hears him in the wind ; His soul, proud science never taught to stray Far as the solar walk, or milky way...
Σελίδα 13 - Hope humbly then; with trembling pinions soar; Wait the great teacher Death; and God adore. What future bliss, he gives not thee to know, But gives that Hope to be thy blessing now.
Σελίδα 54 - Teach me to feel another's woe, To hide the fault I see; That mercy I to others show, That mercy show to me.
Σελίδα 54 - Let not this weak, unknowing hand Presume Thy bolts to throw, And deal damnation round the land, On each I judge Thy foe.
Σελίδα 56 - Hark! they whisper; Angels say, Sister Spirit, come away. What is this absorbs me quite? Steals my senses, shuts my sight, Drowns my spirits, draws my breath?