An essay on man [by A. Pope]. With some humourous verses on the death of dean Swift, written by himself |
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... Pleasure their Defire ; But greedy that its Object would devour , This tafte the Honey , and not wound the Flow'r . Pleasure , or wrong , or rightly understood , Our greatest Evil , or our greatest Good . 75 80 Modes of Self - Love the ...
... Pleasure their Defire ; But greedy that its Object would devour , This tafte the Honey , and not wound the Flow'r . Pleasure , or wrong , or rightly understood , Our greatest Evil , or our greatest Good . 75 80 Modes of Self - Love the ...
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... Pleasure's fmiling Train , Hate , Fear , and Grief , the Family of Pain ; Thefe mix'd with Art , and to due Bourds ... Pleasures are ever in our Hands or Eyes , And when in Act they ceafe , in Profpect rife ; Prefent to grafp , and ...
... Pleasure's fmiling Train , Hate , Fear , and Grief , the Family of Pain ; Thefe mix'd with Art , and to due Bourds ... Pleasures are ever in our Hands or Eyes , And when in Act they ceafe , in Profpect rife ; Prefent to grafp , and ...
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... Pleasure and the Pride . Is thine alone the Seed that ftrows the Plain ? The Birds of Heav'n fhall vindicate their Grain . Thine the full Harveft of the golden Year ? Part pays , and juftly , the deferving Steer . The Hog , that plows ...
... Pleasure and the Pride . Is thine alone the Seed that ftrows the Plain ? The Birds of Heav'n fhall vindicate their Grain . Thine the full Harveft of the golden Year ? Part pays , and juftly , the deferving Steer . The Hog , that plows ...
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... Pleasure ; yet for more , his Pride : All feed on one vain Patron , and enjoy Th ' extenfive Bleffing of his Luxury . That very Life his learned Hunger craves , He faves from Famine , from the Savage faves : Nay , feafts the Animal , he ...
... Pleasure ; yet for more , his Pride : All feed on one vain Patron , and enjoy Th ' extenfive Bleffing of his Luxury . That very Life his learned Hunger craves , He faves from Famine , from the Savage faves : Nay , feafts the Animal , he ...
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... Pleasure with the fierce Embrace ; 120 All love themselves , a third Time in their Race . The Beast , the Bird , their common Charge attend , 125 The Mothers Nurse it , and the Sires defend ; The Young difmifs'd , to wander Earth or Air ...
... Pleasure with the fierce Embrace ; 120 All love themselves , a third Time in their Race . The Beast , the Bird , their common Charge attend , 125 The Mothers Nurse it , and the Sires defend ; The Young difmifs'd , to wander Earth or Air ...
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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.