The Poetical Works, Volume 2D. A. Borrenstein, 1828 |
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... thee ? 30 II . Presumptuous man ! the 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 ...
... thee ? 30 II . Presumptuous man ! the 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 ...
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... thee to know , But gives that hope to be thy blessing now .. Hope springs eternal in the human breast : Man never Is , but always To be bless'd : The soul uneasy , and confined from home , Rests and expatiates on a life to come . ( Lo ...
... thee to know , But gives that hope to be thy blessing now .. Hope springs eternal in the human breast : Man never Is , but always To be bless'd : The soul uneasy , and confined from home , Rests and expatiates on a life to come . ( Lo ...
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... thee ? The powers of all subdued by the alone , Is not thy reason all these powers in one ? 230 VIII . See , through this air , this ocean and this earth , All matter quick , and bursting into birth . Above , how high progressive life ...
... thee ? The powers of all subdued by the alone , Is not thy reason all these powers in one ? 230 VIII . See , through this air , this ocean and this earth , All matter quick , and bursting into birth . Above , how high progressive life ...
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... thee ? Vile worm ! -oh madness ! pride impiety ! IX . What if the foot , ordain'd the dust to tread , Or hand , to toil , aspired to be the head ? What if the head , the eye , or ear , repined To serve mere engines to the ruling mind ...
... thee ? Vile worm ! -oh madness ! pride impiety ! IX . What if the foot , ordain'd the dust to tread , Or hand , to toil , aspired to be the head ? What if the head , the eye , or ear , repined To serve mere engines to the ruling mind ...
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... thee ; All chance , direction which thou canst not see : All discord , harmony not understood ; 291 All partial evil , universal good . And , spite of pride , in erring reason's spite , One truth is clear , WHATEVER IS , IS RIGHT ...
... thee ; All chance , direction which thou canst not see : All discord , harmony not understood ; 291 All partial evil , universal good . And , spite of pride , in erring reason's spite , One truth is clear , WHATEVER IS , IS RIGHT ...
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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.