The Works of the English Poets: PopeH. Hughs, 1779 - English poetry |
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... poor Indian ! whofe untutor'd mind Sees God in clouds , or hears him in the wind ; 95 100 His VARIATIONS . After ver . 88. in the MS . No great , no little ; ' tis as much decreed That Virgil's Gnat should die as Cæfar bleed . Ver . in ...
... poor Indian ! whofe untutor'd mind Sees God in clouds , or hears him in the wind ; 95 100 His VARIATIONS . After ver . 88. in the MS . No great , no little ; ' tis as much decreed That Virgil's Gnat should die as Cæfar bleed . Ver . in ...
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... poor contents him with the care of Heaven . See the blind beggar dance , the cripple fing , The fot a hero , lunatic a king ; The starving chemist in his golden views Supremely bleft , the poet in his Mufe . See fome strange comfort ...
... poor contents him with the care of Heaven . See the blind beggar dance , the cripple fing , The fot a hero , lunatic a king ; The starving chemist in his golden views Supremely bleft , the poet in his Mufe . See fome strange comfort ...
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... poor and me ? What makes all physical or moral ill ? There deviates Nature , and here wanders will . God fends not ill ; if rightly understood , Or partial Ill is universal Good , 100 105 110 Or Change admits , or Nature lets it fall ...
... poor and me ? What makes all physical or moral ill ? There deviates Nature , and here wanders will . God fends not ill ; if rightly understood , Or partial Ill is universal Good , 100 105 110 Or Change admits , or Nature lets it fall ...
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... poor with fortune , and with learning blind , The bad muft mifs , the good , untaught , will find : 330 • Slave to no fect , who takes no private road , But looks through Nature , up to Nature's God : Pursues that Chain which links th ...
... poor with fortune , and with learning blind , The bad muft mifs , the good , untaught , will find : 330 • Slave to no fect , who takes no private road , But looks through Nature , up to Nature's God : Pursues that Chain which links th ...
Page 104
... poor Narcissa spoke ) " No , let a charming Chintz , and Bruffels lace , " Wrap my cold limbs , and shade my lifeless face : " One would not , fure , be frightful when one's dead- " And - Betty - give this Cheek a little Red . " The ...
... poor Narcissa spoke ) " No , let a charming Chintz , and Bruffels lace , " Wrap my cold limbs , and shade my lifeless face : " One would not , fure , be frightful when one's dead- " And - Betty - give this Cheek a little Red . " The ...
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Popular passages
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.