The Poetical Works of Alexander PopeW. Suttaby, B. Crosby & Company Corral Prinker, 1807 - 408 pages |
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... mind was wavering , and his temper broken and disturbed . Others have asserted that he was all cheerfulness and resignation to the divine will : which of these opi- nions is true we cannot now determine ; but if the former , it must be ...
... mind was wavering , and his temper broken and disturbed . Others have asserted that he was all cheerfulness and resignation to the divine will : which of these opi- nions is true we cannot now determine ; but if the former , it must be ...
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... mind by his clear and perspicuous reasoning , that dulness itself became capable of dis- cerning ; and when at any time his performances fell short of his own ideas of excellence , his ene- mies tried him by rules of his own ...
... mind by his clear and perspicuous reasoning , that dulness itself became capable of dis- cerning ; and when at any time his performances fell short of his own ideas of excellence , his ene- mies tried him by rules of his own ...
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... 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 ; Yet simple nature to his hope has giv'n , Behind the cloud - topt hill , an humbler heav'n ; Some ...
... 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 ; Yet simple nature to his hope has giv'n , Behind the cloud - topt hill , an humbler heav'n ; Some ...
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... mind , Or turns young Ammon loose to scourge mankind ? From pride , from pride , our very reasoning springs ; Account for moral as for natural things : t Why charge we Heav'n in those , in these acquit ? In both to reason right is to ...
... mind , Or turns young Ammon loose to scourge mankind ? From pride , from pride , our very reasoning springs ; Account for moral as for natural things : t Why charge we Heav'n in those , in these acquit ? In both to reason right is to ...
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... mind ? Just as absurd for any part to claim To be another in this general frame ; Just as absurd to mourn the tasks or pains The great directing Mind of All ordains . All are but parts of one stupendous whole , Whose body Nature is ...
... mind ? Just as absurd for any part to claim To be another in this general frame ; Just as absurd to mourn the tasks or pains The great directing Mind of All ordains . All are but parts of one stupendous whole , Whose body Nature is ...
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