The Works of Alexander Pope;J.F. Dove, St. John's Square, 1822 |
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... pleasure increased : On the third , he had no doubt re- maining , and then he admired the whole . " The subject of this Essay is a vindication of Providence ; in which the poet proposes to prove , That , of all possible systems ...
... pleasure increased : On the third , he had no doubt re- maining , and then he admired the whole . " The subject of this Essay is a vindication of Providence ; in which the poet proposes to prove , That , of all possible systems ...
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... Pleasures of Imagination . I will here add , as the best commentary on the prevailing doc- trines of this first Epistle , a very exalted passage from Plotinus , in which he has introduced a subline prosopopoeia of Nature , or the ...
... Pleasures of Imagination . I will here add , as the best commentary on the prevailing doc- trines of this first Epistle , a very exalted passage from Plotinus , in which he has introduced a subline prosopopoeia of Nature , or the ...
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... Pleasure must proceed from God ; the sixth , that Perfect Happiness cannot be attained in this Life , and that Men ought not to complain ; the seventh and last is , to shew that Virtue chiefly consists in Acts of Benefi- cence to our ...
... Pleasure must proceed from God ; the sixth , that Perfect Happiness cannot be attained in this Life , and that Men ought not to complain ; the seventh and last is , to shew that Virtue chiefly consists in Acts of Benefi- cence to our ...
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... pleasure , or ingenious pain ; Expunge the whole , or lop th ' excrescent parts Of all our Vices have created Arts ; NOTES . 59 4:53 45 50 written four epistles on it , wherein he would have treated of the extent and limits of human ...
... pleasure , or ingenious pain ; Expunge the whole , or lop th ' excrescent parts Of all our Vices have created Arts ; NOTES . 59 4:53 45 50 written four epistles on it , wherein he would have treated of the extent and limits of human ...
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... Pleasure their desire ; But greedy That , its object would devour , This taste the honey , and not wound the flow'r : 90 Pleasure , or wrong or rightly understood , Our greatest evil , or our greatest good . III . Modes of Self - love ...
... Pleasure their desire ; But greedy That , its object would devour , This taste the honey , and not wound the flow'r : 90 Pleasure , or wrong or rightly understood , Our greatest evil , or our greatest good . III . Modes of Self - love ...
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Page 13 - Who sees with equal eye, as God of all, A hero perish, or a sparrow fall, Atoms or systems into ruin hurl'd, And now a bubble burst, and now a world.
Page 35 - Lives through all life, extends through all extent, Spreads undivided, operates unspent: Breathes in our soul, informs our mortal part, As full, as perfect, in a hair as heart; As full, as perfect, in vile man that mourns, As the rapt seraph that adores and burns: To him no high, no low, no great, no small; He fills, he bounds, connects, and equals all.
Page 157 - What conscience dictates to be done, Or warns me not to do, This teach me more than hell to shun, That, more than heav'n pursue. What blessings Thy free bounty gives, Let me not cast away; For God is paid when man receives, To enjoy is to obey.
Page 15 - Lo the poor Indian ! whose untutor'd mind Sees God in clouds, or hears him in the wind ; His soul, proud science never taught to stray Far as the solar walk, or milky way...
Page 158 - Let not this weak, unknowing hand Presume thy bolts to throw, And deal damnation round the land On each I judge thy foe. If I am right, thy grace impart, Still in the right to stay ; If I am wrong, O teach my heart To find that better way.
Page 16 - In Pride, in reas'ning Pride, our error lies; All quit their sphere, and rush into the skies. Pride still is aiming at the blest abodes, Men would be Angels, Angels would be Gods. Aspiring to be Gods, if Angels fell, Aspiring to be Angels, Men rebel: And who but wishes to invert the laws Of Order, sins against th
Page 92 - Praise ye him, sun and moon : Praise him, all ye stars of light. Praise him, ye heavens of heavens, And ye waters that be above the heavens. Let them praise the name of the LORD: For he commanded, and they were created.
Page 86 - Nature that tyrant checks; he only knows, And helps, another creature's wants and woes. Say, will the falcon, stooping from above, Smit with her varying plumage, spare the dove?
Page 49 - 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; In doubt his mind or body to prefer; Born but to die, and reas'ning but to err; Alike in ignorance, his reason such, Whether he thinks too little or too much...
Page 156 - To know but this, that Thou art good, And that myself am blind ; Yet gave me, in this dark estate, To see the good from ill ; And binding nature fast in fate, Left free the human will.