Essay on Man, Epistles I.-IV.Macmillan, 1899 - 93 pages |
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... thing ; Drink deep , or taste not the Pierian spring . ” To err , is human ; to forgive , divine . " Perhaps the most extraordinary feature about Pope's early poetry is that it is as good , or almost as good , as that which he wrote ...
... thing ; Drink deep , or taste not the Pierian spring . ” To err , is human ; to forgive , divine . " Perhaps the most extraordinary feature about Pope's early poetry is that it is as good , or almost as good , as that which he wrote ...
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... thing above my capacity . What is now published , is only to be considered as a general map of Man , marking out no more than the greater parts , their extent , their limits , and their connection , but leaving the particular to be more ...
... thing above my capacity . What is now published , is only to be considered as a general map of Man , marking out no more than the greater parts , their extent , their limits , and their connection , but leaving the particular to be more ...
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... things , 17. II . That man is not to be deemed imperfect , but a being suited to his place and rank in the creation , agreeable to the general order of things , and conformable to ends and relations to him unknown , 35. III . That it is ...
... things , 17. II . That man is not to be deemed imperfect , but a being suited to his place and rank in the creation , agreeable to the general order of things , and conformable to ends and relations to him unknown , 35. III . That it is ...
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... 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 , ) Expatiate free o'er all this scene of man ; A mighty maze ! but not without a plan ; A wild , where ...
... 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 , ) Expatiate free o'er all this scene of man ; A mighty maze ! but not without a plan ; A wild , where ...
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... things : Why charge we heaven in those , in these acquit ? In both to reason right is to submit . Better for us , perhaps , it might appear , Were there all harmony , all virtue here ; That never air or ocean felt the wind , That never ...
... things : Why charge we heaven in those , in these acquit ? In both to reason right is to submit . Better for us , perhaps , it might appear , Were there all harmony , all virtue here ; That never air or ocean felt the wind , That never ...
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Page 12 - Cease then, nor order imperfection name; Our proper bliss depends on what we blame. Know thy own point: this kind this due degree Of blindness, weakness, Heav'n bestows on thee. Submit. — In this, or any other sphere, Secure to be as blest as thou canst bear: Safe in the hand of one disposing Power, Or in the natal, or the mortal hour.
Page 9 - Why has not man a microscopic eye? For this plain reason, man is not a fly. Say what the use, were finer optics giv'n, T...
Page 8 - Annual for me, the grape, the rose renew The juice nectareous, and the balmy dew; For me, the mine a thousand treasures brings; For me, health gushes from a thousand springs; Seas roll to waft me, suns to light me rise; My foot-stool earth, my canopy the skies.
Page 7 - 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 15 - Two principles in human nature reign; Self-love, to urge, and reason, to restrain; Nor this a good, nor that a bad we call, Each works its end, to move or govern all: And to their proper operation still Ascribe all good; to their improper, ill.
Page xi - Me, let the tender office long engage, To rock the cradle of reposing age, With lenient arts extend a mother's breath. Make languor smile, and smooth the bed of death, Explore the thought, explain the asking eye, And keep awhile one parent from the sky ! On cares like these if length of days attend.
Page 42 - Is hung on high, to poison half mankind. All fame is foreign but of true desert, Plays round the head, but comes not to the heart : One...
Page 5 - Why form'd no weaker, blinder, and no less? Ask of thy mother earth, why oaks are made Taller or stronger than the weeds they shade? Or ask of yonder argent fields above, Why JOVE'S Satellites are less than JOVE?
Page 18 - As Man, perhaps, the moment of his breath, Receives the lurking principle of death ; The young disease, that must subdue at length, Grows with his growth, and strengthens with his strength...
Page 5 - Tis ours to trace him only in our own. He, who through vast immensity can pierce, See worlds on worlds compose one universe, Observe how system into system runs, What other planets circle other suns, What varied being peoples every star, May tell why heav'n has made us as we are.