The Works of Alexander Pope: Esq. with Notes and Illustrations by Himself and Others. To which are Added, a New Life of the Author, an Estimate of His Poetical Character and Writings, and Occasional Remarks, Volume 5J. Rivington, 1824 - English literature |
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... Poet's modest and sober Introduction ; in which he truly observes , that no wisdom less than omniscient " Can tell ... Poet thus reproves the impious com- plainer of the order of Providence : You are dissatisfied with the weakness ...
... Poet's modest and sober Introduction ; in which he truly observes , that no wisdom less than omniscient " Can tell ... Poet thus reproves the impious com- plainer of the order of Providence : You are dissatisfied with the weakness ...
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... Poet's clear and strong reasoning ; from whence , we see , he was so far from saying , that Man could not know the cause why Jove's Sa- tellites were less than Jove , that all the force of his reasoning turns upon this , that Man did ...
... Poet's clear and strong reasoning ; from whence , we see , he was so far from saying , that Man could not know the cause why Jove's Sa- tellites were less than Jove , that all the force of his reasoning turns upon this , that Man did ...
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... Poet , as we said , having bid Man comfort himself with expectation of future happiness ; having shewn him that ... Poet's purpose to teach , that the present life is only a Some safer world in depth of woods embrac'd , 105. state makes.
... Poet , as we said , having bid Man comfort himself with expectation of future happiness ; having shewn him that ... Poet's purpose to teach , that the present life is only a Some safer world in depth of woods embrac'd , 105. state makes.
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... Poet's of a future state , will furnish us with an instance of his st he well expresses it in his preface ) hetween doctrines seer posite : if his Essay has any merit , he thinks it is in th doubtless it is uncommon merit to reject the ...
... Poet's of a future state , will furnish us with an instance of his st he well expresses it in his preface ) hetween doctrines seer posite : if his Essay has any merit , he thinks it is in th doubtless it is uncommon merit to reject the ...
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... Poet's peculiar system ; who , although he allows Man to be King of this inferior world , yet he thinks it madness to make him King of the Universe . If the phi- losophy and argument of the Poem could not teach him this , yet methinks ...
... Poet's peculiar system ; who , although he allows Man to be King of this inferior world , yet he thinks it madness to make him King of the Universe . If the phi- losophy and argument of the Poem could not teach him this , yet methinks ...
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Page 65 - Lives through all life, extends through all extent, Spreads undivided, operates unspent: Breathes in our soul, informs our mortal part, As full, as perfect, in a hair as heart; As full, as perfect, in vile man that mourns, As the rapt seraph that adores and burns: To him no high, no low, no great, no small; He fills, he bounds, connects, and equals all.
Page 42 - 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 194 - Honour and shame from no condition rise ; Act well your part, there all the honour lies.
Page 50 - If plagues or earthquakes break not Heaven's design, Why then a Borgia, or a Catiline? Who knows but He, whose hand the lightning forms, Who heaves old ocean, and who wings the storms; Pours fierce ambition in a Caesar's mind, Or turns young Ammon loose to scourge mankind?
Page 74 - All Nature is but art, unknown to thee All chance, direction, which thou canst not see; All discord, harmony not understood; All partial evil, universal good: And, spite of pride, in erring reason's spite, One truth is clear, Whatever is, is right.
Page 82 - 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; Alike in ignorance, his reason such, Whether he thinks too little or too much...
Page 16 - Pursues that chain which links th' immense design, Joins heaven and earth, and mortal and divine ; Sees that no being any bliss can know, But touches some above, and some below ; Learns from this union of the rising whole, The first, last purpose of the human soul ; And knows where faith, law, morals, all began, All end in love of God and love of man.
Page 174 - Order is Heaven's first law; and this confest, Some are, and must be, greater than the rest, More rich, more wise; but who infers from hence That such are happier, shocks all common sense.
Page 185 - When the loose mountain trembles from on high, Shall gravitation cease, if you go by ? Or some old temple, nodding to its fall, For Chartres' head reserve the hanging wall?
Page 123 - See dying vegetables life sustain, See life dissolving vegetate again : All forms that perish other forms supply, (By turns we catch the vital breath, and die) Like bubbles on the sea of matter born, They rise, they break, and to that sea return.