The Works of the English Poets: PopeH. Hughs, 1779 - English poetry |
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... mean for empty praise of wit to write , 175 As Foplings grin to fhew their teeth are white : To brand a doubtful folly with a smile , Or madly blaze unknown defects , is vile : ' Tis doubly vile , when , but to prove your art , You fix ...
... mean for empty praise of wit to write , 175 As Foplings grin to fhew their teeth are white : To brand a doubtful folly with a smile , Or madly blaze unknown defects , is vile : ' Tis doubly vile , when , but to prove your art , You fix ...
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... means be fair , Lift under Reason , and deferve her care ; Thofe , that imparted , court a nobler aim , Exalt their kind , and take fome Virtue's name . In lazy Apathy let Stoics boaft Their Virtue fix'd ; ' tis fix'd as in a frost ...
... means be fair , Lift under Reason , and deferve her care ; Thofe , that imparted , court a nobler aim , Exalt their kind , and take fome Virtue's name . In lazy Apathy let Stoics boaft Their Virtue fix'd ; ' tis fix'd as in a frost ...
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... ; In folly's cup ftill laughs the bubble , joy ; One profpect loft , another still we gain ; And not a vanity is giv'n in vain ; 270 275 280 285 290 Ev'n mean Self - love becomes , by force divine Ev'n 52 S. POPE'S POEM.
... ; In folly's cup ftill laughs the bubble , joy ; One profpect loft , another still we gain ; And not a vanity is giv'n in vain ; 270 275 280 285 290 Ev'n mean Self - love becomes , by force divine Ev'n 52 S. POPE'S POEM.
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Samuel Johnson. Ev'n mean Self - love becomes , by force divine , The scale to measure others wants by thine . See ! and confess , one comfort still must rise ; ' Tis this , Though Man's a fool , yet GOD IS WISE . E 3 ARGUMENT ARGUMENT ...
Samuel Johnson. Ev'n mean Self - love becomes , by force divine , The scale to measure others wants by thine . See ! and confess , one comfort still must rise ; ' Tis this , Though Man's a fool , yet GOD IS WISE . E 3 ARGUMENT ARGUMENT ...
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... means proportion'd to their end . Say , where full Instinct is th ' unerring guide , What Pope or Council can they need befide ? Reason , however able , cool at best , Cares not for fervice , or but ferves when preft , Stays till we ...
... means proportion'd to their end . Say , where full Instinct is th ' unerring guide , What Pope or Council can they need befide ? Reason , however able , cool at best , Cares not for fervice , or but ferves when preft , Stays till we ...
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Page 41 - 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...
Page 29 - 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.
Page 39 - 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 77 - Heroes are much the same, the point's agreed, From Macedonia's madman to the Swede ; The whole strange purpose of their lives, to find Or make an enemy of all mankind!
Page 50 - Fools ! who from hence into the notion fall, That vice or virtue there is none at all. If white and black blend, soften, and unite A thousand ways, is there no black or white?
Page 156 - 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 60 - 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 64 - For nature knew no right divine in men ; No ill could fear in God, and understood A...
Page 69 - Parnassian laurels yield, Or reap'd in iron harvests of the field ? • Where grows ? — where grows it not? If vain our toil, We ought to blame the culture, not the soil...
Page 56 - Who for thy table feeds the wanton fawn, For him as kindly spread the flow'ry lawn : Is it for thee the lark ascends and sings? Joy tunes his voice, joy elevates his wings.