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... self - love and reason both ne- cessary ; self - love the stronger , and why ; their end the same , 83. The passions and their use , 83 to 120 . The predominant passion and its force , 122 to 150 . Its necessity in directing men to ...
... self - love and reason both ne- cessary ; self - love the stronger , and why ; their end the same , 83. The passions and their use , 83 to 120 . The predominant passion and its force , 122 to 150 . Its necessity in directing men to ...
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... love , 235 , & c . Origin of superstition and tyranny , from the same principle of fear , 241 , & c . The influence of self - love operating to the social and public good , 269 . storation of true religion and government on their first ...
... love , 235 , & c . Origin of superstition and tyranny , from the same principle of fear , 241 , & c . The influence of self - love operating to the social and public good , 269 . storation of true religion and government on their first ...
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... Self - love to urge , and reason to restrain ; Nor this a good , nor that a bad we call , Each works its end to move or govern all And to their proper operation still Ascribe all good ; to their improper , ill . Self - love , the spring ...
... Self - love to urge , and reason to restrain ; Nor this a good , nor that a bad we call , Each works its end to move or govern all And to their proper operation still Ascribe all good ; to their improper , ill . Self - love , the spring ...
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... self - love restrains . 80 Let subtle schoolmen teach these friends to fight , More studious to divide than to unite , 85 And grace and virtue , sense and reason split , With all the rash dexterity of wit : Wits , just like fools , at ...
... self - love restrains . 80 Let subtle schoolmen teach these friends to fight , More studious to divide than to unite , 85 And grace and virtue , sense and reason split , With all the rash dexterity of wit : Wits , just like fools , at ...
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... self directs it still ; Each individual seeks a several goal ; 230 235 But heav'n's great view is one , and that the ... love sincere , 255 Each home - felt joy that life inherits here , Yet from the same we learn , in its decline ...
... self directs it still ; Each individual seeks a several goal ; 230 235 But heav'n's great view is one , and that the ... love sincere , 255 Each home - felt joy that life inherits here , Yet from the same we learn , in its decline ...
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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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Page 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.
Page 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!
Page 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.
Page 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...
Page 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.
Page 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...
Page 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
Page 115 - The chest contrived a double debt to pay, A bed by night, a chest of drawers by day...
Page 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.
Page 85 - And all the air a solemn stillness holds, Save where the beetle wheels his droning flight...