An essay on man [by A. Pope]. With some humourous verses on the death of dean Swift, written by himself |
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... fince all particular Happiness depends on general , 35. As it is neceffary for Order , and the Peace and Welfare of Society , that External Goods fhould be unequal , Happiness is not made to confift in these , 47. But notwithstanding ...
... fince all particular Happiness depends on general , 35. As it is neceffary for Order , and the Peace and Welfare of Society , that External Goods fhould be unequal , Happiness is not made to confift in these , 47. But notwithstanding ...
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... ( fince Life can little more supply Than juft to look about us , and to die ) Expatiate free o'er all this Scene of Man ; 5 A mighty Maze ! but not without a Plan A Wild , where Weeds and Flow'rs promiscuous fhoot , Or Garden , tempting ...
... ( fince Life can little more supply Than juft to look about us , and to die ) Expatiate free o'er all this Scene of Man ; 5 A mighty Maze ! but not without a Plan A Wild , where Weeds and Flow'rs promiscuous fhoot , Or Garden , tempting ...
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... fince all began , " And what created , perfect ? " --- Why then Man ? If the great End be human Happiness , 145 And Nature deviates , how can Man do lefs ? As much that End a conftant Course requires Of Show'rs and Sun - fhine , as of ...
... fince all began , " And what created , perfect ? " --- Why then Man ? If the great End be human Happiness , 145 And Nature deviates , how can Man do lefs ? As much that End a conftant Course requires Of Show'rs and Sun - fhine , as of ...
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... fince not every Good we can divide , And Reafon bids us for our own provide ; Paffions , tho ' Selfish , if their Means be fair , Lift under Reafon , and deferve her Care : Thofe that imparted , court a nobler Aim , Exalt their Kind ...
... fince not every Good we can divide , And Reafon bids us for our own provide ; Paffions , tho ' Selfish , if their Means be fair , Lift under Reafon , and deferve her Care : Thofe that imparted , court a nobler Aim , Exalt their Kind ...
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... yours you rate , Count me those only who are good and great . Go ! if your ancient , but ignoble Blood , Has crept thro ' Scoundrels ever fince the Flood ; 200 Go 205 Go ! and pretend your Family is young ; Epift . IV . ESSAY on MAN . 27.
... yours you rate , Count me those only who are good and great . Go ! if your ancient , but ignoble Blood , Has crept thro ' Scoundrels ever fince the Flood ; 200 Go 205 Go ! and pretend your Family is young ; Epift . IV . ESSAY on MAN . 27.
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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.