The works of Alexander Pope. With a selection of explanatory notes, and the account of his life by dr. Johnson, Volume 31812 |
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... a conformity to the ORDER of PROVIDENCE here , and a Resiguation to it here and hereafter , ver . 326 , & c . Honours , EPISTLE IV . OH HAPPINESS ! our being's end and Of the Nature and State of Man with respect to Happiness.
... a conformity to the ORDER of PROVIDENCE here , and a Resiguation to it here and hereafter , ver . 326 , & c . Honours , EPISTLE IV . OH HAPPINESS ! our being's end and Of the Nature and State of Man with respect to Happiness.
Page 63
... honour , lives the sire ? Why drew Marseilles ' good bishop purer breath , When nature sicken'd , and each gale was death ? Or why so long ( in life if long can be ) Lent Heav'n a parent to the poor and me ? 105 I10 What VER . 99. See ...
... honour , lives the sire ? Why drew Marseilles ' good bishop purer breath , When nature sicken'd , and each gale was death ? Or why so long ( in life if long can be ) Lent Heav'n a parent to the poor and me ? 105 I10 What VER . 99. See ...
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... Honour and shame from no condition rise ; Act well your part , there all the honour lies . Fortune in men has some small diff'rence made , 195 One flaunts in rags , one flutters in brocade ; The cobler apron'd , and the parson gown'd ...
... Honour and shame from no condition rise ; Act well your part , there all the honour lies . Fortune in men has some small diff'rence made , 195 One flaunts in rags , one flutters in brocade ; The cobler apron'd , and the parson gown'd ...
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... ambition call , 285 From ancient story learn to scorn them all . There , in the rich , the honour'd , fam'd , and great , See the false scale of happiness complete ! In hearts of Kings , or arms of Queens who In 90 EP . IV . ESSAY ON MAN .
... ambition call , 285 From ancient story learn to scorn them all . There , in the rich , the honour'd , fam'd , and great , See the false scale of happiness complete ! In hearts of Kings , or arms of Queens who In 90 EP . IV . ESSAY ON MAN .
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... honour dy'd . See how the world its veterans rewards ! A youth of frolics , an old age of cards ; Fair to no purpose , artful to no end , Young without lovers , old without a friend ; A fop their passion , but their prize a sot , Alive ...
... honour dy'd . See how the world its veterans rewards ! A youth of frolics , an old age of cards ; Fair to no purpose , artful to no end , Young without lovers , old without a friend ; A fop their passion , but their prize a sot , Alive ...
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Page 13 - AWAKE, my St John ! leave all meaner things To low ambition, and the pride of kings. Let us (since life can little more supply Than just to look about us and to die...
Page 18 - Where slaves once more their native land behold, No fiends torment, no Christians thirst for gold. To Be, contents his natural desire, He asks no Angel's wing, no Seraph's fire; But thinks, admitted to that equal sky, His faithful dog shall bear him company.
Page 18 - Pride, our error lies; All quit their sphere, and rush into the skies. Pride still is aiming at the blest abodes, Men would be Angels, Angels would be Gods. Aspiring to be Gods, if Angels fell, Aspiring to be Angels, Men rebel: And who but wishes to invert the laws Of Order, sins against th
Page 16 - Heav'n from all creatures hides the book of Fate, All but the page prescrib'd, their present state: From brutes what men, from men what spirits know : Or who could suffer Being here below? The lamb thy riot dooms to bleed to-day, Had he thy Reason, would he skip and play? Pleas'd to the last, he crops the flow'ry food, And licks the hand just rais'd to shed his blood.
Page 17 - Lo, the poor Indian ! whose untutored mind Sees GOD in clouds, or hears Him in the wind ; His soul proud science never taught to stray Far as the solar walk or Milky Way...
Page 244 - True ease in writing comes from art, not chance, As those move easiest who have learn'd to dance.
Page 131 - Or in proud falls magnificently lost, But clear and artless, pouring through the plain Health to the sick, and solace to the swain. Whose causeway parts the vale with shady rows? Whose seats the weary traveller repose ? Who taught that heaven-directed spire to rise ?
Page 24 - Great in the earth as in the ethereal frame, Warms in the sun, refreshes in the breeze, Glows in the stars, and blossoms in the trees : Lives through all life, extends through all extent, Spreads undivided, operates unspent...
Page 164 - twas when he knew no better. Dare you refuse him? Curll invites to dine, He'll write a. Journal, or he'll turn divine.' Bless me ! a packet - ' 'Tis a stranger sues, A Virgin Tragedy, an Orphan Muse.' If I dislike it, 'Furies, death and rage!' If I approve, 'Commend it to the stage.
Page 67 - Honour and shame from no condition rise ; Act well your part, there all the honour lies.