The Works of the English Poets: PopeH. Hughs, 1779 - English poetry |
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... thofe Virtues which they fed before . And fure , the deadlieft Foe to Virtue's flame , Our worst of Evils , is perverted Shame . Beneath this load , what abject numbers groan , Th ' entangled Slaves to folly not their own ! Meanly by ...
... thofe Virtues which they fed before . And fure , the deadlieft Foe to Virtue's flame , Our worst of Evils , is perverted Shame . Beneath this load , what abject numbers groan , Th ' entangled Slaves to folly not their own ! Meanly by ...
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... thofe ills she cannot cure . The Worthy court her , and the Worthless fear ; Who fhun her piercing eye , that eye revere . Her awful voice the Vain and Vile obey , And every foe to Wisdom feels her sway . Smarts , Pedants , as she ...
... thofe ills she cannot cure . The Worthy court her , and the Worthless fear ; Who fhun her piercing eye , that eye revere . Her awful voice the Vain and Vile obey , And every foe to Wisdom feels her sway . Smarts , Pedants , as she ...
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... thofe , in these acquit ? In both , to reafon 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 paffion difcompos'd the mind ...
... thofe , in these acquit ? In both , to reafon 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 paffion difcompos'd the mind ...
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... thofe , or all to thee ? The powers of all fubdued by thee alone , Is not thy Reafon all these powers in one ? 215 220 225 230 VIII . See , through this air , this ocean , and this earth , All matter quick , and bursting into birth ...
... thofe , or all to thee ? The powers of all fubdued by thee alone , Is not thy Reafon all these powers in one ? 215 220 225 230 VIII . See , through this air , this ocean , and this earth , All matter quick , and bursting into birth ...
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... Thofe , that imparted , court a nobler aim , Exalt their kind , and take some Virtue's name . In lazy Apathy let Stoics boast Their Virtue fix'd ; ' tis fix'd as in a froft ; Contracted all , retiring to the breast ; But ftrength of ...
... Thofe , that imparted , court a nobler aim , Exalt their kind , and take some Virtue's name . In lazy Apathy let Stoics boast Their Virtue fix'd ; ' tis fix'd as in a froft ; Contracted all , retiring to the breast ; But ftrength of ...
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Page 82 - Presume thy bolts to throw, And deal damnation round the land On each I judge thy foe. If I am right, thy grace impart, Still in the right to stay; If I am wrong, oh teach my heart To find that better way...
Page 132 - 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 33 - 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 35 - The proper study of mankind is Man. Placed on this isthmus of a middle state, A being darkly wise and rudely great: With too much knowledge for the Sceptic side, 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 reas'ning but to err...
Page 151 - And born to write, converse, and live with ease: Should such a man, too fond to rule alone, Bear, like the Turk, no brother near the throne...
Page 54 - 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 33 - All discord, harmony not understood ; All partial evil, universal good : And, spite of pride, in erring reason's spite, One truth is clear, WHATEVER is, is RIGHT.
Page 159 - Me, let the tender office long engage To rock the cradle of reposing age, With lenient arts extend a mother's breath, Make languor smile, and smooth the bed of death; Explore the thought, explain the asking eye, And keep a while one parent from the sky ! On cares like these, if length of days attend, May Heaven, to bless those days, preserve my friend!
Page 150 - Pretty! in amber to observe the forms Of hairs, or straws, or dirt, or grubs, or worms! The things, we know, are neither rich nor rare, But wonder how the devil they got there.
Page 123 - Who builds a church to God, and not to Fame, Will never mark the marble with his name...