The Poetical Works of Alexander PopeW. Suttaby, B. Crosby & Company Corral Prinker, 1807 - 408 pages |
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... virtue here ; That never air or ocean felt the wind , That never passion discompos'd the mind ; But all subsists by elemental strife ; And passions are the elements of life . The general order since the whole began , Is kept in nature ...
... virtue here ; That never air or ocean felt the wind , That never passion discompos'd the mind ; But all subsists by elemental strife ; And passions are the elements of life . The general order since the whole began , Is kept in nature ...
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... virtue .-- 4 . Virtue and vice joined in our mixed nature ; the limits near , yet the things sepa- rate and evident : what is the office of Reason . - 5 . How odious vice in itself , and how we deceive ourselves into it .-- 6 . That ...
... virtue .-- 4 . Virtue and vice joined in our mixed nature ; the limits near , yet the things sepa- rate and evident : what is the office of Reason . - 5 . How odious vice in itself , and how we deceive ourselves into it .-- 6 . That ...
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... virtue , sense and reason split , With all the rash dexterity of wit . Wits , just like fools , at war about a name , Have full as oft no meaning , or the same . Self - love and reason to one end aspire , Pain their aversion , pleasure ...
... virtue , sense and reason split , With all the rash dexterity of wit . Wits , just like fools , at war about a name , Have full as oft no meaning , or the same . Self - love and reason to one end aspire , Pain their aversion , pleasure ...
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... virtue's name . In lazy apathy let stoics boast Their virtue fix'd ; ' tis fix'd as in a frost ; Contracted all , retiring to the breast ; But strength of mind is exercise , not rest ; The rising tempest puts in act the soul , Parts it ...
... virtue's name . In lazy apathy let stoics boast Their virtue fix'd ; ' tis fix'd as in a frost ; Contracted all , retiring to the breast ; But strength of mind is exercise , not rest ; The rising tempest puts in act the soul , Parts it ...
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... virtue with his nature mix'd ; The dross cements what else were too refin'd , And in one interest body acts with ... virtue male or female can we name , But what will grow on pride or grow on shame . Thus nature gives us ( let it check ...
... virtue with his nature mix'd ; The dross cements what else were too refin'd , And in one interest body acts with ... virtue male or female can we name , But what will grow on pride or grow on shame . Thus nature gives us ( let it check ...
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