Traduction de l'essai sur l'homme de Pope: en vers français, précédée d'un discours et suivie de notes avec le texte anglais en regard |
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Page 70
... 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 . He who thro ' vast ...
... 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 . He who thro ' vast ...
Page 72
... reason wouldst thou find , Why form'd so weak , so little , and so blind ? First , if thou canst , the harder reason guess , Why form'd no weaker , blinder , and no less ? Ask of thy mother earth , why oaks are made Taller or stronger ...
... reason wouldst thou find , Why form'd so weak , so little , and so blind ? First , if thou canst , the harder reason guess , Why form'd no weaker , blinder , and no less ? Ask of thy mother earth , why oaks are made Taller or stronger ...
Page 76
... Reason , would he skip and play ? Pleas'd to the last , he crops the flow'ry food , And licks the hand just rais'd to shed his blood . Oh blindness to the future ! kindly giv'n , That each may fill the circle mark'd by Heav'n : Who sees ...
... Reason , would he skip and play ? Pleas'd to the last , he crops the flow'ry food , And licks the hand just rais'd to shed his blood . Oh blindness to the future ! kindly giv'n , That each may fill the circle mark'd by Heav'n : Who sees ...
Page 84
... reason right is , to submit . Better for us , perhaps , it might appear , Were there all harmony , all virtue here ; That never air or ocean felt the wind ; That never passion discompos'd the mind . But all subsists by elemental strife ...
... reason right is , to submit . Better for us , perhaps , it might appear , Were there all harmony , all virtue here ; That never air or ocean felt the wind ; That never passion discompos'd the mind . But all subsists by elemental strife ...
Page 86
... has not Man a microscopic eye ? For this plain reason , man is not a fly . Say what the use , were finer optics giv'n , T ' inspect a mite , not comprehend the heav'n ? Les animaux , dis - tu , sont soumis à 86 EPISTLE I.
... has not Man a microscopic eye ? For this plain reason , man is not a fly . Say what the use , were finer optics giv'n , T ' inspect a mite , not comprehend the heav'n ? Les animaux , dis - tu , sont soumis à 86 EPISTLE I.
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Page 180 - In faith and hope the world will disagree, But all mankind's concern is charity : All must be false that thwart this one great end, And all of God that bless mankind or mend. Man, like the generous vine, supported lives ; The strength he gains is from th
Page 166 - Go, from the creatures thy instructions take: Learn from the birds what food the thickets yield; Learn from the beasts the physic of the field; Thy arts of building from the bee receive; Learn of the mole to plough, the worm to weave; Learn of the little nautilus to sail, Spread the thin oar, and catch the driving gale.
Page 70 - 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.
Page 224 - Pursues that chain which links th' immense design, Joins heav'n and earth, and mortal and divine; Sees, that no being any bliss can know, But touches some above, and some below; Learns, from this union of the rising whole, The first, last purpose of the human soul; And knows where faith, law, morals, all began, All end, in love of God, and love of man.
Page 84 - If plagues or earthquakes break not Heaven's design, Why then a Borgia, or a Catiline? Who knows but He, whose hand the lightning forms, Who heaves old ocean, and who wings the storms; Pours fierce ambition in a Caesar's mind, Or turns young Ammon loose to scourge mankind?
Page 80 - Re-judge His justice, be the god of God. 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 law Of Order, sins against the Eternal Cause.
Page 208 - Honour and shame from no condition rise ; Act well your part, there all the honour lies.
Page 108 - Go, wond'rous creature! mount where Science guides, Go, measure earth, weigh air, and state the tides; Instruct the planets in what orbs to run, Correct old Time, and regulate the Sun; Go, soar with Plato to th...
Page 92 - Vast chain of being! which from God began; Natures ethereal, human, angel, man, Beast, bird, fish, insect, what no eye can see, No glass can reach; from infinite to thee; From thee to nothing...
Page 210 - 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.