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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... things mutually relative , a mind which sees not infi- nitely , can see nothing fully . This doctrine was inculcated by Plato and the Stoics , but more amply and particularly by the later Platonists , and by Antoninus and Simplicius ...
... things mutually relative , a mind which sees not infi- nitely , can see nothing fully . This doctrine was inculcated by Plato and the Stoics , but more amply and particularly by the later Platonists , and by Antoninus and Simplicius ...
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... thing is perfect here ; but because every thing is perfect when considered with regard to the great designs and purposes of the Creator , as well here as elsewhere , as well in a future as in the present state of being . It is indeed ...
... thing is perfect here ; but because every thing is perfect when considered with regard to the great designs and purposes of the Creator , as well here as elsewhere , as well in a future as in the present state of being . It is indeed ...
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... things , and deny a future state . To these he answers , that whatever is , is right ; and he assigns this reason , that we see only a part of the moral system , and not the whole . Therefore these ir- regularities , serving to great ...
... things , and deny a future state . To these he answers , that whatever is , is right ; and he assigns this reason , that we see only a part of the moral system , and not the whole . Therefore these ir- regularities , serving to great ...
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... things is faulty ; so that the reply , whatever is , is right , is pertinent in him . His Lordship on the other hand directs it against divines , who say , indeed , that this constitution is imper- fect , if considered separately ...
... things is faulty ; so that the reply , whatever is , is right , is pertinent in him . His Lordship on the other hand directs it against divines , who say , indeed , that this constitution is imper- fect , if considered separately ...
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... things for the best , is considered by him as the language of an " abstract reasoner , who has no complaints to make ; " and he is accused of " flegme Anglican , " or English stupidity , because he does not , in a philosophical work ...
... things for the best , is considered by him as the language of an " abstract reasoner , who has no complaints to make ; " and he is accused of " flegme Anglican , " or English stupidity , because he does not , in a philosophical work ...
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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.