THE WORKS OF Alexander Pope Esq, Volume 3J. and P. KNAPTON in Ludgate-street, 1751 - 299 pages |
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... bleffing now . Hope springs eternal in the human breast : Man never Is , but always To be blest : VARIATIONS . In the firft Fol . and Quarto , What blifs above he gives not thee to know , But gives that , Hope to be thy blifs below ...
... bleffing now . Hope springs eternal in the human breast : Man never Is , but always To be blest : VARIATIONS . In the firft Fol . and Quarto , What blifs above he gives not thee to know , But gives that , Hope to be thy blifs below ...
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... bleffing find ) Is not to act or think beyond mankind ; No pow'rs of body or of foul to share , But what his nature and his ftate can bear . Why has not Man a microscopic eye ? For this plain reafon , Man is not a Fly . Say what the use ...
... bleffing find ) Is not to act or think beyond mankind ; No pow'rs of body or of foul to share , But what his nature and his ftate can bear . Why has not Man a microscopic eye ? For this plain reafon , Man is not a Fly . Say what the use ...
Page 79
... bleffing of his luxury . That very life his learned hunger craves , He faves from famine , from the favage faves ; Nay , feasts the animal he dooms his feast , And , ' till he ends the being , makes it bleft ; COMMENTARY . 65 . effects ...
... bleffing of his luxury . That very life his learned hunger craves , He faves from famine , from the favage faves ; Nay , feasts the animal he dooms his feast , And , ' till he ends the being , makes it bleft ; COMMENTARY . 65 . effects ...
Page 116
... bleffing Individuals find , 35 But fome way leans and hearkens to the kind : 40 No Bandit fierce , no Tyrant mad with pride , No cavern'd Hermit , refts felf - fatisfy'd : Who most to shun or hate Mankind pretend , Seek an admirer , or ...
... bleffing Individuals find , 35 But fome way leans and hearkens to the kind : 40 No Bandit fierce , no Tyrant mad with pride , No cavern'd Hermit , refts felf - fatisfy'd : Who most to shun or hate Mankind pretend , Seek an admirer , or ...
Page 118
... bleffing , as one common foul . But Fortune's gifts if each alike poffest , And each were equal , must not all contest ? If then to all Men Happiness was meant , God in Externals could not place Content . Fortune her gifts may variously ...
... bleffing , as one common foul . But Fortune's gifts if each alike poffest , And each were equal , must not all contest ? If then to all Men Happiness was meant , God in Externals could not place Content . Fortune her gifts may variously ...
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abfurd againſt becauſe beft beſt bleffing bleft blifs Cæfar caufe cauſe Characters COMMENTARY conclufion confequence confifts courſe Dæmon defign deſcribed Effay Epiftle ev'n ev'ry evil faid fame fatire fays fecond fenfe ferves fhall fhews fhould firft firſt folly fome fool foul ftate ftill ftrength fubject fublime fuch fuppofed fupport fure fyftem gives Happineſs hath Heav'n himſelf human illuftrates inftance itſelf juft juſt knave laft laſt lefs Man's Mankind mind miſtake moft moral moſt muft muſt Nature neceffary neral NOTES obferve Philofopher Pleaſure poet poet's pow'r praiſe preſent Pride principle purpoſe purſue racter raiſe Reaſon reft Religion rife riſe ruling Angels ruling Paffion Self-love Senfe ſhall ſhe ſmall ſtate ſtill ſtrong ſuch ſyſtem Tafte thee thefe theſe things thofe thoſe thouſand thro tion true truth underſtood univerfal uſe Vice Virtue whofe whole whoſe wife wiſdom