The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope, Volume 2Little, Brown, 1853 |
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... pains we guard , but lose with ease , Sure some to vex , but never all to please ; ' Tis what the vicious fear , the virtuous shun ; By fools ' tis hated , and by knaves undone ! If wit so much from ignorance undergo , Ah let not ...
... pains we guard , but lose with ease , Sure some to vex , but never all to please ; ' Tis what the vicious fear , the virtuous shun ; By fools ' tis hated , and by knaves undone ! If wit so much from ignorance undergo , Ah let not ...
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... pain , A thousand movements scarce one purpose gain : In God's one single can its end produce , Yet serves to second too some other use : So man , who here seems principal alone , Perhaps acts second to some sphere unknown , Touches ...
... pain , A thousand movements scarce one purpose gain : In God's one single can its end produce , Yet serves to second too some other use : So man , who here seems principal alone , Perhaps acts second to some sphere unknown , Touches ...
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... pain ? If nature thunder'd in his opening ears , And stunn'd him with the music of the spheres , How would he wish that Heaven had left him still The whispering zephyr and the purling rill ? Who finds not Providence all good and wise ...
... pain ? If nature thunder'd in his opening ears , And stunn'd him with the music of the spheres , How would he wish that Heaven had left him still The whispering zephyr and the purling rill ? Who finds not Providence all good and wise ...
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... pains The great directing Mind of All ordains . All are but parts of one stupendous whole , Whose body Nature is , and God the soul ; That chang'd through all , and yet in all the same , Great in the earth as in th ' ethereal frame ...
... pains The great directing Mind of All ordains . All are but parts of one stupendous whole , Whose body Nature is , and God the soul ; That chang'd through all , and yet in all the same , Great in the earth as in th ' ethereal frame ...
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... pain ; Expunge the whole , or lop th ' excrescent parts Of all our vices have created arts ; Then see how little the remaining sum , Which serv'd the past , and must the times to come ! 2. Two principles in human nature reign , Self ...
... pain ; Expunge the whole , or lop th ' excrescent parts Of all our vices have created arts ; Then see how little the remaining sum , Which serv'd the past , and must the times to come ! 2. Two principles in human nature reign , Self ...
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