An essay on man [by A. Pope]. With some humourous verses on the death of dean Swift, written by himself |
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... Blifs he gives not thee to know , But gives that Hope to be thy Bleffing now . 80 85 90 Hope fprings eternal in the human Breaft ; Man never is , but always to be bleft . The Soul uneafy and confin'd at home , Refts , and expatiates ...
... Blifs he gives not thee to know , But gives that Hope to be thy Bleffing now . 80 85 90 Hope fprings eternal in the human Breaft ; Man never is , but always to be bleft . The Soul uneafy and confin'd at home , Refts , and expatiates ...
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... we call , Be pleas'd with nothing , if not blefs'd with all ? 180 The Blifs of Man ( could Pride that Bleffing find ) Is not to think , or act , beyond Mankind ; No 1 No Powr's of Body or of Soul to share Epift . I. 5 ESSAY on MAN .
... we call , Be pleas'd with nothing , if not blefs'd with all ? 180 The Blifs of Man ( could Pride that Bleffing find ) Is not to think , or act , beyond Mankind ; No 1 No Powr's of Body or of Soul to share Epift . I. 5 ESSAY on MAN .
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... Blifs depends on what we blame . Know thy own Point : This kind , this due Degree 275 Of Blindness , Weakness , Heav'n bestows on thee . in this , or any other Sphere , Submit- Secure to be as bleft as thou canft bear : Safe in the Hand ...
... Blifs depends on what we blame . Know thy own Point : This kind , this due Degree 275 Of Blindness , Weakness , Heav'n bestows on thee . in this , or any other Sphere , Submit- Secure to be as bleft as thou canft bear : Safe in the Hand ...
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... Blifs , alike , by that Direction tend , And find the Means proportion'd to their End . Say , where full Inftinct is th ' unerring Guide , What Pope or Council can they need befide ? Reason , however able , cool at best , 60 65 70 75 80 ...
... Blifs , alike , by that Direction tend , And find the Means proportion'd to their End . Say , where full Inftinct is th ' unerring Guide , What Pope or Council can they need befide ? Reason , however able , cool at best , 60 65 70 75 80 ...
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... Blifs , and sets its proper Bounds : But as he fram'd a Whole , the Whole to bless , On mutual Wants built mutual Happiness : So from the firft , Eternal ORDER ran , And Creature link'd to Creature , Man to Man . Whate'er of Life all ...
... Blifs , and sets its proper Bounds : But as he fram'd a Whole , the Whole to bless , On mutual Wants built mutual Happiness : So from the firft , Eternal ORDER ran , And Creature link'd to Creature , Man to Man . Whate'er of Life all ...
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abfurd Afpiring againſt alike Beaſt Becauſe beft Behold beſt Bleffing blefs'd bleft Blifs Bliſs Caufe Cauſe Courſe Creature Dean DEAN SWIFT Death Defire deſtroy diff'rent dy'd e'er Eafe Earth Eaſe EPISTLE eternal Ev'n ev'ry fame fave Fear ferves fhall fhould fince firft firſt fix'd foar fome Fool form'd Friend ftill fuch fupply gen'ral giv'n gives Gole Gout Happineſs happy Heav'n himſelf Hope Inftinct Int'reft Itfelf juft Juftice Kings Knave Laft laſt Learn'd lefs leſs Love Man's Mankind Mind moft moſt muft muſt Nature Nature's never o'er Paffion Pain pleaſe Pleaſure Pow'r prefent Pride Profe Profpect raiſe Reafon reft reſtrain rife riſe Satyrs Self-Love Senfe ſerve ſhall Skreen Soul ſtill Syſtem taught thee thefe theſe thine Things thofe thoſe thou thouſand thro Tyrant underſtood Univerſe Vice Virtue Wants Weakneſs Whate'er whofe Whole whoſe wife Wiſdom worfe World
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Page 9 - With too much knowledge for the Sceptic side, With too much weakness for the Stoic's pride, He hangs between, in doubt to act or rest; In doubt to deem himself a God or Beast; In doubt his mind or body to prefer; Born but to die, and reas'ning but to err...
Page 30 - The only point where human bliss stands still, And tastes the good without the fall to ill ; Where only merit...
Page 10 - Created half to rise, and half to fall: Great lord of all things, yet a prey to all; Sole judge of truth, in endless error hurl'd; The glory jest, and riddle of the world!
Page 27 - I'll tell you, friend! a wise man and a fool. You'll find, if once the monarch acts the monk, Or, cobbler-like, the parson will be drunk, Worth makes the man, and want of it, the fellow; The rest is all but leather or prunella.
Page 28 - Who wickedly is wise, or madly brave, Is but the more a fool, the more a knave.
Page 2 - Say first, of God above, or man below, What can we reason, but from what we know ? Of man, what see we but his station here, From which to reason, or to which refer ? Thro' worlds unnumber'd tho' the God be known, "Tis ours to trace him only in our own.
Page 10 - Man, but for that, no action could attend, And, but for this, were active to no end: Fix'd like a plant on his peculiar spot, To draw nutrition, propagate, and rot: Or, meteor-like, flame lawless through the void, Destroying others, by himself destroy'd.
Page 27 - The friar hooded, and the monarch crown'd. " What differ more (you cry) than crown and cowl !" I'll tell you, friend ! a wise man and a fool.
Page 18 - Joy tunes his voice, joy elevates his wings. Is it for thee the linnet pours his throat ? Loves of his own and raptures swell the note.
Page 1 - The latent tracts, the giddy heights, explore Of all who blindly creep, or sightless soar; Eye Nature's walks, shoot Folly as it flies, And catch the manners living as they rise; Laugh where we must, be candid where we can; But vindicate the ways of God to man.