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... death ; 135 The young disease , that must fubdue at length , Grows with his growth , and strengthens with his ftrength : VARIATION . After ver . 112. in the MS . The foft reward the virtuous , or invite ; The fierce , the vicious punish ...
... death ; 135 The young disease , that must fubdue at length , Grows with his growth , and strengthens with his ftrength : VARIATION . After ver . 112. in the MS . The foft reward the virtuous , or invite ; The fierce , the vicious punish ...
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... loves , thofe interests , to refign ; Taught half by reason , half by mere decay , To welcome death , and calmly pafs away . E 2 260 Whate'er Whate'er the paffion , knowledge , fame , or pelf EP . II . 51 ESSAY ON MAN .
... loves , thofe interests , to refign ; Taught half by reason , half by mere decay , To welcome death , and calmly pafs away . E 2 260 Whate'er Whate'er the paffion , knowledge , fame , or pelf EP . II . 51 ESSAY ON MAN .
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... Death still draws nearer , never feeming near . Great ftanding miracle ! that Heaven affign'd Its only thinking thing this turn of mind . 50 . 55 60 65 70 75 II . Whether II . Whether with Reason , or with Inftinct bleft EP . III . 57 ...
... Death still draws nearer , never feeming near . Great ftanding miracle ! that Heaven affign'd Its only thinking thing this turn of mind . 50 . 55 60 65 70 75 II . Whether II . Whether with Reason , or with Inftinct bleft EP . III . 57 ...
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... death its own avenger breeds ; The Fury - paffions from that blood began , And turn'd on Man , a fiercer savage , Man . See him from Nature rifing flow to Art ! Το copy inftinct then was reafon's part ; Thus then to Man the voice of ...
... death its own avenger breeds ; The Fury - paffions from that blood began , And turn'd on Man , a fiercer savage , Man . See him from Nature rifing flow to Art ! Το copy inftinct then was reafon's part ; Thus then to Man the voice of ...
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... death ? Or why fo long ( in life if long can be ) 100 105 Lent Heaven a parent to the poor and me ? What makes all phyfical or moral ill ? There deviates Nature , and here wanders will . God fends not ill ; if rightly understood , Or ...
... death ? Or why fo long ( in life if long can be ) 100 105 Lent Heaven a parent to the poor and me ? What makes all phyfical or moral ill ? There deviates Nature , and here wanders will . God fends not ill ; if rightly understood , Or ...
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Page 82 - Presume thy bolts to throw, And deal damnation round the land On each I judge thy foe. If I am right, thy grace impart, Still in the right to stay; If I am wrong, oh teach my heart To find that better way...
Page 132 - His gardens next your admiration call; On every side you look, behold the wall! No pleasing intricacies intervene, No artful wildness to perplex the scene ; Grove nods at grove, each alley has a brother, And half the platform just reflects the other.
Page 33 - Warms in the sun, refreshes in the breeze, Glows in the stars, and blossoms in the trees : Lives through all life, extends through all extent, Spreads undivided, operates unspent...
Page 35 - The proper study of mankind is Man. Placed on this isthmus of a middle state, A being darkly wise and rudely great: 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 151 - And born to write, converse, and live with ease: Should such a man, too fond to rule alone, Bear, like the Turk, no brother near the throne...
Page 54 - Nor think, in Nature's state they blindly trod; The state of Nature was the reign of God: Self-love and social at her birth began, Union the bond of all things, and of man.
Page 33 - 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 159 - 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 a while one parent from the sky ! On cares like these, if length of days attend, May Heaven, to bless those days, preserve my friend!
Page 150 - Pretty! in amber to observe the forms Of hairs, or straws, or dirt, or grubs, or worms! The things, we know, are neither rich nor rare, But wonder how the devil they got there.
Page 123 - Who builds a church to God, and not to Fame, Will never mark the marble with his name...