The Poetical Works of Alexander PopeW. Suttaby, B. Crosby & Company Corral Prinker, 1807 - 408 pages |
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... Heav'n has made us as we are : But of this frame , the bearings and the ties , The strong connexions , nice dependencies , Gradations just , has thy pervading soul Look'd through ; or can a part contain the whole ? Is the great chain ...
... Heav'n has made us as we are : But of this frame , the bearings and the ties , The strong connexions , nice dependencies , Gradations just , has thy pervading soul Look'd through ; or can a part contain the whole ? Is the great chain ...
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... Heav'n in fault ; Say rather man's as perfect as he ought ; His knowledge measur'd to his state and place , His time a moment , and a point his space . If to be perfect in a certain sphere , What matter soon or late , or here or there ...
... Heav'n in fault ; Say rather man's as perfect as he ought ; His knowledge measur'd to his state and place , His time a moment , and a point his space . If to be perfect in a certain sphere , What matter soon or late , or here or there ...
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... Heav'n ; 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 . Hope humbly then ; with trembling pinions soar , Wait the great teacher ...
... Heav'n ; 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 . Hope humbly then ; with trembling pinions soar , Wait the great teacher ...
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Alexander Pope. If man alone engross not Heav'n's high care , Alone made perfect here , immortal there ; Snatch from his ... Heav'n's design , Why then a Borgia or a Catiline ? Who knows but He , whose hand the lightning forms Epist . I ...
Alexander Pope. If man alone engross not Heav'n's high care , Alone made perfect here , immortal there ; Snatch from his ... Heav'n's design , Why then a Borgia or a Catiline ? Who knows but He , whose hand the lightning forms Epist . I ...
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... Heav'n in those , in these acquit ? In both to reason right is to submit . Better for us , perhaps , it might appear , Were there all harmony , all virtue here ; That never air or ocean felt the wind , That never passion discompos'd the ...
... Heav'n in those , in these acquit ? In both to reason right is to submit . Better for us , perhaps , it might appear , Were there all harmony , all virtue here ; That never air or ocean felt the wind , That never passion discompos'd the ...
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