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... Pleased to the last , he crops the flowery food , And licks the hand just raised to shed his blood . Oh blindness to the future ! kindly given , That each may fill the circle mark'd by Heaven ; Who sees with equal eye , as God of all ...
... Pleased to the last , he crops the flowery food , And licks the hand just raised to shed his blood . Oh blindness to the future ! kindly given , That each may fill the circle mark'd by Heaven ; Who sees with equal eye , as God of all ...
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... add , and nothing to abate . Each beast , each insect , happy in its own : Is heaven unkind to man , and man alone ? Shall he alone , whom rational we call , 180 Be pleased with nothing , if not bless'd with all ESSAY ON MAN . 17.
... add , and nothing to abate . Each beast , each insect , happy in its own : Is heaven unkind to man , and man alone ? Shall he alone , whom rational we call , 180 Be pleased with nothing , if not bless'd with all ESSAY ON MAN . 17.
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Alexander Pope. Be pleased with nothing , if not bless'd with all ? The bliss of man ( could pride that blessing find ) Is not to act or think beyond mankind ; No powers of body or of soul to share , But what his nature and his state can ...
Alexander Pope. Be pleased with nothing , if not bless'd with all ? The bliss of man ( could pride that blessing find ) Is not to act or think beyond mankind ; No powers of body or of soul to share , But what his nature and his state can ...
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... Pleased with a rattle , tickled with a straw ; Some livelier play - thing gives his youth delight , A little louder , but as empty quite : Scarfs , garters , gold , amuse his riper stage . And beads and prayer - books are the toys of ...
... Pleased with a rattle , tickled with a straw ; Some livelier play - thing gives his youth delight , A little louder , but as empty quite : Scarfs , garters , gold , amuse his riper stage . And beads and prayer - books are the toys of ...
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... ! Villario can no more : Tired of the scene parterres and fountains yield , He finds at last he better likes a field . Through his young woods how pleased Sabinus stray'd Or sat delighted in the thickening shade , With annual 94 POPE .
... ! Villario can no more : Tired of the scene parterres and fountains yield , He finds at last he better likes a field . Through his young woods how pleased Sabinus stray'd Or sat delighted in the thickening shade , With annual 94 POPE .
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ALEXANDER POPE avarice Balaam Bavius beast beauty bless'd blessing bliss breath Cæsar CARDELIA charms Chartres court cries curse dear divine e'en e'er ease EPISTLE eyes fair fame fate fear flatter folly fool give glory GODFREY KNELLER gold grace grave happiness hate heart Heaven honest honour Horace king knave laugh laws learn'd learned live lord LORD BOLINGBROKE Lord Fanny mankind mind moral muse nature nature's ne'er never numbers o'er once parterre passion Pindaric pleased pleasure poet poor Pope praise pride proud rage reason rhyme rich rise Sappho satire SATIRE IV scarce Self-love sense shade shine Shylock sigh slave smile SMILINDA soft soul strong taste tell thee things thou thought truth Twas verse Vex'd vice virtue wealth Westminster Abbey whate'er Whig whole whores wife wise wretched write
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Page 12 - Awake, my St. John! leave all meaner things To low ambition, and the pride of kings. Let us (since life can little more supply Than just to look about us and to die) Expatiate free o'er all this scene of man; A mighty maze! but not without a plan; A wild, where weeds and flowers promiscuous shoot; Or garden tempting with forbidden fruit.
Page 108 - Damn with faint praise, assent with civil leer, And, without sneering, teach the rest to sneer; Willing to wound and yet afraid to strike, Just hint a fault and hesitate dislike...
Page 108 - Like Cato, give his little senate laws, And sit attentive to his own applause ; While wits and templars every sentence raise, And wonder with a foolish face of praise ; Who but must laugh if such a man there be ? Who would not weep if Atticus were he? What though my name stood rubric on the walls, Or plaster'd posts, with claps, in capitals ? Or smoking forth, a hundred hawkers...
Page 54 - FATHER of all! in every age, In every clime adored, By saint, by savage, and by sage, Jehovah, Jove, or Lord! Thou Great First Cause, least understood, Who all my sense confined To know but this, that Thou art good, And that myself am blind...
Page 18 - What modes of sight betwixt each wide extreme, The mole's dim curtain, and the lynx's beam: Of smell, the headlong lioness between, And hound sagacious on the tainted green : Of hearing, from the life that fills the flood, To that which warbles thro...
Page 107 - He, who still wanting, though he lives on theft, Steals much, spends little, yet has nothing left : And he, who now to sense, now nonsense leaning, Means not, but blunders round about a meaning...
Page 20 - That, chang'd through all, and yet in all the same ; Great in the earth, as in the ethereal frame ; Warms in the sun, refreshes in the breeze, Glows in the stars, and blossoms in the trees, Lives through all life, extends through all extent, Spreads undivided, operates unspent...
Page 22 - 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 reas'ning but to err; Alike in ignorance, his reason such, Whether he thinks too little or too much...
Page 112 - A cherub's face, a reptile all the rest; Beauty that shocks you, parts that none will trust; Wit that can creep, and pride that licks the dust.
Page 12 - 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.
Bibliographic information
| Title | The Poetical Works, Volume 2 The British poets The Poetical Works, Alexander Pope |
| Author | Alexander Pope |
| Publisher | D. A. Borrenstein, 1828 |
| Original from | the New York Public Library |
| Digitized | Dec 4, 2006 |
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