An Essay on Man, 1734 |
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... pain ? If Nature thunder'd in his opening ears , 190 And stunn'd him with the music of the Spheres , How would he wish that Heav'n had left him ftiil 195 The whisp'ring Zephyr , and the purling rill ? Who finds not Providence all - good ...
... pain ? If Nature thunder'd in his opening ears , 190 And stunn'd him with the music of the Spheres , How would he wish that Heav'n had left him ftiil 195 The whisp'ring Zephyr , and the purling rill ? Who finds not Providence all - good ...
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... Pain their averfion , Pleasure their defire ; But greedy that its object would devour , This taste the honey , and not wound the flower . Pleasure , or wrong or rightly understood , Our greatest Evil , or our greatest Good . Modes of ...
... Pain their averfion , Pleasure their defire ; But greedy that its object would devour , This taste the honey , and not wound the flower . Pleasure , or wrong or rightly understood , Our greatest Evil , or our greatest Good . Modes of ...
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Alexander Pope. Which fees no more the stroke , or feels the pain , Than favour'd Man , by Touch ætherial flain . The Creature had his feaft of life before ; Thou too must perish , when thy feast is o'er ! To each unthinking being Heav'n ...
Alexander Pope. Which fees no more the stroke , or feels the pain , Than favour'd Man , by Touch ætherial flain . The Creature had his feaft of life before ; Thou too must perish , when thy feast is o'er ! To each unthinking being Heav'n ...
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act the foul afcends alike Beaſt beſt blefling bleft blifs Bliſs boundleſs burſting Cæfar Catiline Cauſe Acts confiftent Creature defire deſtroy deſtroy'd diff'rent diſeaſe Earth eaſe EPISTLE Eternal Ev'n ev'ry Faith fame fave Fear feaſt ferves fhall fince firft firſt fix'd foar fome Fool form'd Friend ftill fucceeds fuch gen'ral giv❜n greateſt Happineſs happy Heav'n himſelf Hope Inftruct Inſtinct int'reft itſelf juft juſt Juſtice Kings Laws Learn'd lefs leſs Love Madneſs Man's mankind Menston Mind moſt muſt Nature Nature's o'er Ourselves to know Paffion pain perfect pleaſe Pleaſure pow'rs prefent Pride Profe Purpoſe Purſue raiſe Reafon reft reftrains reſt rife riſe SCOLAR PRESS Self-love Senfe ſenſe ſmall Soul ſpread ſprings ſtate ſtill ſtrength ſtrong Syſtem taught thee thefe theſe things thinks thofe thoſe thou thouſand thro Tyrant Univerſal uſe Vice Virtue weak whofe whole wife Wiſdom