The Works of the English Poets: PopeH. Hughs, 1779 - English poetry |
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... universe , Obferve how system into system runs , What other planets circle other funs , 20 25 What What vary'd Being peoples every star , May tell why [ 29 ] Of the End and Efficacy of Satire Love of Glory and Fear of Shame univerfal, ver.
... universe , Obferve how system into system runs , What other planets circle other funs , 20 25 What What vary'd Being peoples every star , May tell why [ 29 ] Of the End and Efficacy of Satire Love of Glory and Fear of Shame univerfal, ver.
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Samuel Johnson. What vary'd Being peoples every star , May tell why Heaven has made us as we are . But of this frame the bearings and the ties , The strong connections , nice dependencies , Gradations juft , has thy pervading foul Look'd ...
Samuel Johnson. What vary'd Being peoples every star , May tell why Heaven has made us as we are . But of this frame the bearings and the ties , The strong connections , nice dependencies , Gradations juft , has thy pervading foul Look'd ...
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... tell us we are fools ? Teach us to mourn our Nature , not to mend ; A fharp accufer , but a helpless friend ! 140 145 150 Or from a judge turn pleader , to perfuade The choice we make , or justify it made ; 155 Proud of an easy conquest ...
... tell us we are fools ? Teach us to mourn our Nature , not to mend ; A fharp accufer , but a helpless friend ! 140 145 150 Or from a judge turn pleader , to perfuade The choice we make , or justify it made ; 155 Proud of an easy conquest ...
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... Tell me , if Virtue made the Son expire , Why , full of days and honour , lives the Sire ? Why drew Marseilles ' good bishop purer breath , When Nature ficken'd , and each gale was death ? Or why fo long ( in life if long can be ) Lent ...
... Tell me , if Virtue made the Son expire , Why , full of days and honour , lives the Sire ? Why drew Marseilles ' good bishop purer breath , When Nature ficken'd , and each gale was death ? Or why fo long ( in life if long can be ) Lent ...
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... tell us who they are ? One thinks on Calvin Heaven's own Spirit fell ; Another deems him inftrument of hell ; If Calvin feel Heaven's bleffing , or its rod , This cries there is , and that , there is no God . What shocks one part will ...
... tell us who they are ? One thinks on Calvin Heaven's own Spirit fell ; Another deems him inftrument of hell ; If Calvin feel Heaven's bleffing , or its rod , This cries there is , and that , there is no God . What shocks one part will ...
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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.