The Works of Alexander Pope, Esq: Moral essaysJ. and P. Knapton, 1752 |
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... acts the faithful Surgeon's part ; Gen'rous and kind tho ' painful is her art : With caution bold , fhe only ftrikes to heal ; Tho ' folly raves to break the friendly steel . Then fure no fault impartial SATIRE knows , 165 Kind ev'n in ...
... acts the faithful Surgeon's part ; Gen'rous and kind tho ' painful is her art : With caution bold , fhe only ftrikes to heal ; Tho ' folly raves to break the friendly steel . Then fure no fault impartial SATIRE knows , 165 Kind ev'n in ...
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... acts fecond to fome sphere unknown , Touches fome wheel , or verges to some goal ; ' Tis but a part we fee , and not a whole . When the proud steed shall know why Man reftrains His firey course , or drives him o'er the plains ...
... acts fecond to fome sphere unknown , Touches fome wheel , or verges to some goal ; ' Tis but a part we fee , and not a whole . When the proud steed shall know why Man reftrains His firey course , or drives him o'er the plains ...
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... acts by ge- neral , and not by particular laws , and that the courfe of matter and motion must be neceffarily fubject to fome irregularities , be- caufe nothing is created perfect . I then afk why you should expect this perfection in ...
... acts by ge- neral , and not by particular laws , and that the courfe of matter and motion must be neceffarily fubject to fome irregularities , be- caufe nothing is created perfect . I then afk why you should expect this perfection in ...
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... Acts not by partial , but by gen'ral laws ; " Th'exceptions few ; fome change fince all began : " And what created perfect ? " - Why then Man ? If the great end be human Happiness , Then Nature deviates ; and can Man do less ? 150 As ...
... Acts not by partial , but by gen'ral laws ; " Th'exceptions few ; fome change fince all began : " And what created perfect ? " - Why then Man ? If the great end be human Happiness , Then Nature deviates ; and can Man do less ? 150 As ...
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... act or think beyond mankind ; No pow'rs of body or of foul to share , But what his nature and his ftate can bear . Why has not Man a microscopic eye ? For this plain reafon , man is not a Fly . Say what the use , were finer optics giv'n ...
... act or think beyond mankind ; No pow'rs of body or of foul to share , But what his nature and his ftate can bear . Why has not Man a microscopic eye ? For this plain reafon , man is not a Fly . Say what the use , were finer optics giv'n ...
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Page 24 - 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 86 - Let them praise the name of the Lord: for his name alone is excellent; his glory is above the earth and heaven.
Page 155 - 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, oh, teach my heart To find that better way...
Page 76 - See life dissolving vegetate again: All forms that perish other forms supply; (By turns we catch the vital breath, and die) Like bubbles on the sea of Matter borne, They rise, they break, and to that sea return.
Page 154 - What conscience dictates to be done. Or warns me not to do, This teach me more than Hell to shun, That more than Heaven pursue.
Page 16 - The scale of sensual, mental powers ascends : Mark how it mounts to man's imperial race, From the green myriads in the peopled grass...
Page 279 - No pleasing intricacies intervene, No artful wildness to perplex the scene ; Grove nods at grove, each alley has a brother, And half the platform just reflects the other.
Page 126 - tis the price of toil; The knave deserves it, when he tills the soil, The knave deserves it, when he tempts the main, Where folly fights for kings, or dives for gain. The good man may be weak, be indolent ; Nor is his claim to plenty, but content.
Page 19 - Were we to press, inferior might on ours; Or in the full creation leave a void, Where, one step broken, the great scale's destroy'd: From Nature's chain whatever link you strike, Tenth, or ten thousandth, breaks the chain alike. And, if each system in gradation roll Alike essential to th' amazing whole, The least confusion but in one, not all That system only, but the whole must fall.
Page 59 - The learn'd is happy nature to explore, The fool is happy that he knows no more ; The rich is happy in the plenty giv'n, 265 The poor contents him With the care of Heav'n.