The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope, Volume 2Little, Brown, 1853 |
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... self - love each jealous writer rules , Contending wits become the sport of fools ; But still the worst with most regret commend , For each ill author is as bad a friend . To what base ends , and by what abject ways , Are mortals urg'd ...
... self - love each jealous writer rules , Contending wits become the sport of fools ; But still the worst with most regret commend , For each ill author is as bad a friend . To what base ends , and by what abject ways , Are mortals urg'd ...
Page 47
... self - love and reason , both necessary . Self - love the stronger , and why . Their end the same . 3. The passions , and their use . The predominant passion , and its force . Its neces- sity , in directing men to different purposes ...
... self - love and reason , both necessary . Self - love the stronger , and why . Their end the same . 3. The passions , and their use . The predominant passion , and its force . Its neces- sity , in directing men to different purposes ...
Page 49
... Self - love to urge , and reason to restrain ; Nor this a good , nor that a bad we call ; Each works its end , to move or govern all ; And to their proper operation still Ascribe all good , to their improper - ill . Self - love , the ...
... Self - love to urge , and reason to restrain ; Nor this a good , nor that a bad we call ; Each works its end , to move or govern all ; And to their proper operation still Ascribe all good , to their improper - ill . Self - love , the ...
Page 50
... Self - love still stronger , as its objects nigh ; Reason's at distance , and in prospect lie : That sees immediate good by present sense ; Reason , the future and the consequence . Thicker than arguments , temptations throng ; At best ...
... Self - love still stronger , as its objects nigh ; Reason's at distance , and in prospect lie : That sees immediate good by present sense ; Reason , the future and the consequence . Thicker than arguments , temptations throng ; At best ...
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... self - love becomes , by force divine , The scale to measure others ' wants by thine . See ! and confess one comfort still must rise ; ' Tis this , ―Though man's a fool , yet God is wise . AN ESSAY ON MAN . EPISTLE III . OF THE OF POPE .
... self - love becomes , by force divine , The scale to measure others ' wants by thine . See ! and confess one comfort still must rise ; ' Tis this , ―Though man's a fool , yet God is wise . AN ESSAY ON MAN . EPISTLE III . OF THE OF POPE .
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