Essay on man, and The universal prayerWhittaker & Company, 1860 - 47 pages |
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... interest body acts with mind . As fruits , ungrateful to the planter's care , On savage stocks inserted , learn to bear ; The surest virtues thus from passions shoot , Wild nature's vigour working at the root . What crops of wit and ...
... interest body acts with mind . As fruits , ungrateful to the planter's care , On savage stocks inserted , learn to bear ; The surest virtues thus from passions shoot , Wild nature's vigour working at the root . What crops of wit and ...
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... interest , or endear the tie . To these we owe true friendship , love sincere , Each home - felt joy that life inherits here ; Yet from the same we learn , in its decline , 19 Those joys , those loves , those interests to resign O.
... interest , or endear the tie . To these we owe true friendship , love sincere , Each home - felt joy that life inherits here ; Yet from the same we learn , in its decline , 19 Those joys , those loves , those interests to resign O.
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Alexander Pope. Those joys , those loves , those interests to resign ; Taught half by reason , half by mere decay , To welcome death , and calmly pass away . Whate'er the passion , knowledge , fame , or pelf , Not one will change his ...
Alexander Pope. Those joys , those loves , those interests to resign ; Taught half by reason , half by mere decay , To welcome death , and calmly pass away . Whate'er the passion , knowledge , fame , or pelf , Not one will change his ...
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... interest prompts him to provide , For more his pleasure , yet for more his pride : All feed on one vain patron , and enjoy The extensive blessing of his luxury . That very life his learned hunger craves , He saves from famine , from the ...
... interest prompts him to provide , For more his pleasure , yet for more his pride : All feed on one vain patron , and enjoy The extensive blessing of his luxury . That very life his learned hunger craves , He saves from famine , from the ...
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... , still the ties improve , At once extend the interest , and the love ; With choice we fix , with sympathy we burn ; Each virtue in each passion takes its turn ; And still new needs , new helps , new habits ESSAY ON MAN . 25.
... , still the ties improve , At once extend the interest , and the love ; With choice we fix , with sympathy we burn ; Each virtue in each passion takes its turn ; And still new needs , new helps , new habits ESSAY ON MAN . 25.
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alike angels bear beast began bless'd blessing blind bliss blood body bounds breath Cause common creature death destroy difference draw E'en earth ease embrace equal ESSAY eternal faith fall fame father fear feel fix'd fool form'd forms frame future gain given gives gods grows half hand happiness head heart Heaven hope human individuals instinct interest kind kings knowledge Learn less light lives Look Lord man's mankind means mind mortal Nature Nature's never o'er Order pain passions peace perfect pleasure powers present pride proper Providence reason rest rise round rule Self-love sense serves soul sphere spread strength strong taught teach thee things thou thousand true truth turns universal unknown vice virtue weak whole wise wrong
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Page 4 - Heav'n from all creatures hides the book of fate, All but the page prescribed, their present state : From brutes what men, from men what spirits know : • Or who could suffer being here below ? The lamb thy riot dooms to bleed to-day, Had he thy reason, would he skip and play ? Pleas'd to the last, he crops the flow'ry food, And licks the hand just rais'd to shed his blood.
Page 11 - 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...
Page 45 - 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 13 - Two principles in human nature reign; Self-love, to urge, and reason, to restrain; Nor this a good, nor that a bad we call, Each works its end, to move or govern all: And to their proper operation still Ascribe all good; to their improper, ill.
Page 9 - See, through this air, this ocean, and this earth, All matter quick, and bursting into birth: Above, how high progressive life may go ! Around how wide, how deep extend below! Vast chain of being! which from God began Natures ethereal, human, angel, man, Beast, bird, fish, insect, what no eye can see, No glass can reach; from Infinite to thee, From thee to Nothing.
Page 5 - Where slaves once more their native land behold ; No fiends torment, no Christians thirst for gold. To Be, contents his natural desire ; He asks no angel's wing, no seraph's fire ; But thinks, admitted to that equal sky, His faithful dog shall bear him company. rv. Go, wiser thou ! and, in thy scale of sense, Weigh thy opinion against Providence ; Call imperfection what thou fanciest such ; Say, here he gives too little, there too much...
Page 3 - Yet serves to second too some other use. So man, who here seems principal alone, Perhaps acts second to some sphere unknown, Touches some wheel, or verges to some goal; 'Tis but a part we see, and not a whole.
Page 14 - Let subtle schoolmen teach these friends to fight, More studious to divide than to unite, And grace and virtue, sense and reason split, With all the rash dexterity of wit: Wits, just like fools, at war about a name, Have full as oft no meaning, or the same. Self-love and reason to one end aspire, Pain their aversion, pleasure their desire...
Page 13 - Man, but for that, no action could attend, And, but for this, were active to no end: Fix'd like a plant on his peculiar spot, To draw nutrition, propagate, and rot: Or, meteor-like, flame lawless through the void, Destroying others, by himself destroy'd.
Page 32 - That something still which prompts the eternal sigh, For which we bear to live, or dare to die, Which still so near us, yet beyond us lies, 5 O'erlook'd, seen double, by the fool and wise. Plant of celestial seed ! if dropp'd below, Say, in what mortal soil thou deign'st to grow?