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Dry Morals the Court - Poet blush'd to fing ; ' Twas all his praise to say " the oddest thing . " Proud for a jest obscene , a Patron's nod , To martyr Virtue , or blafpheme his God . Ill - fated Dryden ! who unmov'd can fee Th ...
Dry Morals the Court - Poet blush'd to fing ; ' Twas all his praise to say " the oddest thing . " Proud for a jest obscene , a Patron's nod , To martyr Virtue , or blafpheme his God . Ill - fated Dryden ! who unmov'd can fee Th ...
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... his Nature , and his State ; fince , to prove any moral Duty , to enforce any moral precept , or to examine the perfection or imperfection of any creature whatsoever , it is necessary first to know what condition and relation it is ...
... his Nature , and his State ; fince , to prove any moral Duty , to enforce any moral precept , or to examine the perfection or imperfection of any creature whatsoever , it is necessary first to know what condition and relation it is ...
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V. The abfurdity of conceiting himfelf the final caufe of the creation , or expecting that perfection in the moral world , which is not in the natural , ver . 131 , & c . VI . The unreasonableness of his complaints against Providence ...
V. The abfurdity of conceiting himfelf the final caufe of the creation , or expecting that perfection in the moral world , which is not in the natural , ver . 131 , & c . VI . The unreasonableness of his complaints against Providence ...
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160 From pride , from pride , our very reasoning springs ; Account for moral as for natural things : Why charge we Heaven in those , in these acquit ? In both , to reafon right , is to fubmit . Better for us , perhaps , it might appear ...
160 From pride , from pride , our very reasoning springs ; Account for moral as for natural things : Why charge we Heaven in those , in these acquit ? In both , to reafon right , is to fubmit . Better for us , perhaps , it might appear ...
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Go , reafoning Thing ! affume the Doctor's chair , As Plato deep , as Seneca fevere : Fix moral fitness , and to God give rule , Then drop into thyself , & c . Ver . 21 , Edit . 4th and 5th . Shew by what rules the wandering planets ...
Go , reafoning Thing ! affume the Doctor's chair , As Plato deep , as Seneca fevere : Fix moral fitness , and to God give rule , Then drop into thyself , & c . Ver . 21 , Edit . 4th and 5th . Shew by what rules the wandering planets ...
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Page 58 - Nor think, in Nature's state they blindly trod; The state of Nature was the reign of God: Self-love and social at her birth began, Union the bond of all things, and of man.
Page 138 - His gardens next your admiration call; On every side you look, behold the wall! No pleasing intricacies intervene, No artful wildness to perplex the scene ; Grove nods at grove, each alley has a brother, And half the platform just reflects the other.
Page 50 - The learn'd is happy Nature to explore, The fool is happy that he knows no more; The rich is happy in the plenty given, The poor contents him with the care of Heaven.
Page 39 - 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...
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Page 48 - Fools ! who from hence into the notion fall, That vice or virtue there is none at all. If white and black blend, soften, and unite A thousand ways, is there no black or white ? Ask your own heart, and nothing is so plain ; 'Tis to mistake them, costs the time and pain.
Page 36 - To serve mere engines to the ruling mind ? Just as absurd for any part to claim To be another in this...
Page 62 - Love all the faith, and all th' allegiance then, For nature knew no right divine in men ; No ill could fear in God, and understood A sovereign being but a sovereign good, True faith, true policy, united ran ; That was but love of God, and this of man. Who first taught souls enslav'd, and realms undone, Th...
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| Title | The works of the English poets. With prefaces, biographical and critical, by S. Johnson, Volume 46 The works of the English poets. With prefaces, biographical and critical, by S. Johnson, English poets |
| Author | English poets |
| Published | 1790 |
| Original from | Oxford University |
| Digitized | Sep 26, 2006 |
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