The Works of Alexander Pope Esq, Volume 3J. and P. Knapton [and others], 1751 - English literature |
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... these acquit ? In both , to reafon 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 paffion difcompos'd the mind . But ALL ...
... these acquit ? In both , to reafon 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 paffion difcompos'd the mind . But ALL ...
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... these , without profufion , kind , The proper organs , proper pow'rs affign'd ; Each seeming want compensated of course , Here with degrees of swiftness , there of force ; All in exact proportion to the ftate ; Nothing to add , and ...
... these , without profufion , kind , The proper organs , proper pow'rs affign'd ; Each seeming want compensated of course , Here with degrees of swiftness , there of force ; All in exact proportion to the ftate ; Nothing to add , and ...
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... these to those , or all to thee ? NOTES . 225 230 fimilitude of the operations ; | fenfible triangle in his mind , Separate , by the immenfe difference in the nature of the powers . VER . 226. What thin partitions , & c . ] So thin ...
... these to those , or all to thee ? NOTES . 225 230 fimilitude of the operations ; | fenfible triangle in his mind , Separate , by the immenfe difference in the nature of the powers . VER . 226. What thin partitions , & c . ] So thin ...
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... these pow'rs in one ? VIII . See , thro ' this air , this ocean , and this earth , All matter quick , and bursting into birth . Above , how high , progreffive life may go ! Around , how wide ! how deep extend below ! Vaft chain of Being ...
... these pow'rs in one ? VIII . See , thro ' this air , this ocean , and this earth , All matter quick , and bursting into birth . Above , how high , progreffive life may go ! Around , how wide ! how deep extend below ! Vaft chain of Being ...
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... these ex- preffions , fo great , as that a Spinozift might employ them to exprefs his own par- ticular principles ; and fuch a thing might well be , be- cause the Spinozists , in or- der to hide the impiety of their principle , are used ...
... these ex- preffions , fo great , as that a Spinozift might employ them to exprefs his own par- ticular principles ; and fuch a thing might well be , be- cause the Spinozists , in or- der to hide the impiety of their principle , are used ...
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againſt Balaam becauſe beft beſt bleffing bleft blifs breaſt Cæfar Catiline caufe cauſe Dæmon defign deſtroy e'er eaſe EPISTLE ev'n ev'ry Expence faid fame fatire fave fecond fenfe ferves fhade fhall fhew fhould fince firft firſt Folly fome Fool foul ftate ftill ftrength fubject fuch fure fyftem guife Happineſs heart Heav'n himſelf itſelf juft juſt King knave laft laſt lefs leſs Lord Mankind mind moft Momus moſt muft muſt Nature Nature's NOTES numbers o'er obfervation Paffion Parterres pleaſe pleaſure poet pow'r praiſe prefent pride purpoſe purſue racters raiſe Reaſon reft rife ruling Angels SATIRE ſcarce Self-love Senfe ſhall ſhe ſhine ſkies ſtands ſtate ſtill ſtrong Tafte thee thefe theſe things thofe thoſe thou thouſand thro tion truth Twas Univerſal uſe VARIATIONS Vice Virtue Virtue's whofe whoſe wife Wiſdom YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY
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Page 37 - 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; So, cast and mingled with his very frame.
Page 102 - What conscience dictates to be done, Or warns me not to do, This teach me more than hell to shun, That more than heaven pursue.
Page 87 - Who wickedly is wise, or madly brave, Is but the more a fool, the more a knave. Who noble ends by noble means obtains, Or failing, smiles in exile or in chains, Like good Aurelius let him reign, or bleed Like Socrates, that man is great indeed. What's fame? a fancied life in others' breath, A thing beyond us, ev'n before our death.
Page 27 - KNOW then thyself, presume not God to scan, 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...
Page 23 - 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 4 - 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.
Page 5 - 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 43 - Ask where's the North? at York, 'tis on the Tweed; In Scotland, at the Orcades ; and there, At Greenland, Zembla, or the Lord knows where.
Page 87 - Heroes are much the same, the point's agreed, From Macedonia's madman to the Swede ; The whole strange purpose of their lives, to find Or make an enemy of all mankind!
Page 141 - That charm shall grow, while what fatigues the Ring, Flaunts and goes down, an unregarded thing...