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 72
... best , Where all must full , or not coherent be , And all that rises , rise in due degree ; Then , in the scale of reas'ning life , ' tis plain , There must be , somewhere , such a rank as Man ; And all the question ( wrangle e'er so ...
... best , Where all must full , or not coherent be , And all that rises , rise in due degree ; Then , in the scale of reas'ning life , ' tis plain , There must be , somewhere , such a rank as Man ; And all the question ( wrangle e'er so ...
Page 112
... best more watchful this , but that more strong . The Action of the stronger to suspend Reason still use , to Reason still attend . Attention , habit and experience gains ; Each strengthens Reason , and Self - love restrains . Let subtle ...
... best more watchful this , but that more strong . The Action of the stronger to suspend Reason still use , to Reason still attend . Attention , habit and experience gains ; Each strengthens Reason , and Self - love restrains . Let subtle ...
Page 124
... best principle : ' Tis thus the Mercury of Man is fix'd , Strong grows the Virtue with his nature mix'd ; The dross cements what else were too refin'd , And in one int'rest body acts with mind . As fruits , ungrateful to the planter's ...
... best principle : ' Tis thus the Mercury of Man is fix'd , Strong grows the Virtue with his nature mix'd ; The dross cements what else were too refin'd , And in one int'rest body acts with mind . As fruits , ungrateful to the planter's ...
Page 130
... is fair and wise ; And ev'n the best , by fits , what they despise . ' Tis but by parts we follow good or ill ; For , Vice or Virtue , Self directs it still ; Mais sur l'excès du vice on n'est jamais d'accord . 130 EPISTLE II .
... is fair and wise ; And ev'n the best , by fits , what they despise . ' Tis but by parts we follow good or ill ; For , Vice or Virtue , Self directs it still ; Mais sur l'excès du vice on n'est jamais d'accord . 130 EPISTLE II .
Page 156
... best ; To bliss alike by that direction tend , And find the means proportion'd to their end . Say , where full Instinct is th ' unerring guide , What Pope or Council can they need beside ? Reason , however able , cool at best , Cares ...
... best ; To bliss alike by that direction tend , And find the means proportion'd to their end . Say , where full Instinct is th ' unerring guide , What Pope or Council can they need beside ? Reason , however able , cool at best , Cares ...
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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.