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Difficulties arising from our own passions , fancies , faculties , & c . , ver . 31. ... It only remains to find ( if we can ) his ruling passion : that will certainly influence all the rest , and can reconcile the seeming or real ...
Difficulties arising from our own passions , fancies , faculties , & c . , ver . 31. ... It only remains to find ( if we can ) his ruling passion : that will certainly influence all the rest , and can reconcile the seeming or real ...
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That each from other differs , first confess ; Next , that he varies from himself no less ; Add nature's , custom's , reason's , passion's strife , And all opinion's colours cast on life . Our depths who fathoms , or our shallows finds ...
That each from other differs , first confess ; Next , that he varies from himself no less ; Add nature's , custom's , reason's , passion's strife , And all opinion's colours cast on life . Our depths who fathoms , or our shallows finds ...
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Search then the RULING PASSION : there , alone , The wild are constant , and the cunning known ; The fool consistent ... and WHARTON stands confess'd.16 WHARTON ! the scorn and wonder of our days , Whose ruling passion was the lust of ...
Search then the RULING PASSION : there , alone , The wild are constant , and the cunning known ; The fool consistent ... and WHARTON stands confess'd.16 WHARTON ! the scorn and wonder of our days , Whose ruling passion was the lust of ...
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Thus with each gift of nature and of art , And wanting nothing but an honest heart ; Grown all to all , from no one vice exempt , And most contemptible , to shun contempt ; His passion still , to covet general praise , His life ...
Thus with each gift of nature and of art , And wanting nothing but an honest heart ; Grown all to all , from no one vice exempt , And most contemptible , to shun contempt ; His passion still , to covet general praise , His life ...
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In this one passion man can strength enjoy , As fits give vigour , just when they destroy . Time , that on all things lays his lenient hand , Yet tames not this ; it sticks to our last sand . Consistent in our follies and our sins ...
In this one passion man can strength enjoy , As fits give vigour , just when they destroy . Time , that on all things lays his lenient hand , Yet tames not this ; it sticks to our last sand . Consistent in our follies and our sins ...
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| Title | The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope, Volume 4 The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope, Robert Carruthers |
| Author | Alexander Pope |
| Editor | Robert Carruthers |
| Publisher | Ingram, Cooke, 1854 |
| Original from | the University of California |
| Digitized | Mar 9, 2010 |
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