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Essay on man, and The universal prayer - Page 3
by Alexander Pope - 1860 - 47 pages
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The poetical works of Alexander Pope. With memoir, critical diss., and ...

Alexander Pope - 1872 - 744 pages
...purpose gain ; In God's, one single can its end produce ; Yet serves to second, too, some other use. So Man, who here seems principal alone, Perhaps acts...some goal ; 'Tis but a part we see, and not a whole. 60 When the proud steed shall know why Man restrains His fiery course, or drives him o'er the jlains...
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Poetical Quotations from Chaucer to Tennyson: With Copious Indexes ...

Samuel Austin Allibone - Quotations, English - 1875 - 794 pages
...birth, Vile reptile, weak and vain! Awhile he crawls upon the earth, Then shrinks to earth again. PoPE. So man, who here seems principal alone, Perhaps acts...verges to some goal : 'Tis but a part we see, and not the whole. PoPE. Prepared I stand : he was but born to try The lot of man, — to suffer and to die....
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Chaucer to Burns

Rossiter Johnson - English poetry - 1876 - 840 pages
...purpose gain : In God's, one single can its end produce; Yet serves to second too some other use. So mnn, e Ihc plains; When the dull ox, why now he breaks the clod, Is now a victim, and now (Egypt's god : Then...
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A dictionary of poetical illustrations

Robert Aitkin Bertram - 1877 - 766 pages
...shell. Prier. Nor think though men were none That heaven would want spectators, God want praise. Milton. what he will, he cannot realize Half he conceives — the glorious the whole. — Popt. 2388. MAN : his possibilities. MAN was mark'd A friend in his creation to himself,...
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The Skeptic: Or Discussions of an Unbeliever with a Calvinist, an Arminian ...

Daniel Noyes Prime - Arminianism - 1877 - 110 pages
...principle alone, Perhaps acts second to some sphere to us unknown, Touches some wheel or verges on some goal ; Tis but a part we see, and not a whole." "Hope humbly then, on trembling pinion soar, Wait the great teacher, death and God adore." DIALOGUE...
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Pope. Essay on man, ed. by M. Pattison

Alexander Pope - 1878 - 138 pages
...one purpose gain; In God's, one single can its end produce; Yet serves to second too some other use. So man, who here seems principal alone, Perhaps acts...some goal; 'Tis but a part we see, and not a whole. 60 When the proud steed shall know why man restrains His fiery course, or drives him o'er the plains;...
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The Scripture progressive reading books [ed. by J. Ridgway].

James Ridgway (B.D.) - 1878 - 214 pages
...purpose gain ; In God's, one single can its end produce, Yet serves to second, too, some other use. So man, who here seems principal alone, Perhaps acts...some goal ; 'Tis but a part we see, and not a whole. ****** Then say not man's imperfect, Heav'n in fault; Say rather, man's as perfect as he ought : His...
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The Great Tradition: A Book of Selections from English and American Prose ...

Edwin Greenlaw, James Holly Hanford - American literature - 1919 - 714 pages
...purpose gain ; •In God's, one single can its end produce ; £ Yet serves to second too some other use. light dews All silently their tears of love instil,...the spirit of her hues. Ye stars ! which are the p w When the proud steed shall know wby man restrains His fiery course, or drives him o'er the plains;...
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The Poet as Philosopher: A Study of Three Philosophical Poems : Nosce ...

Mabel Dodge Holmes - 1921 - 202 pages
...universe, as in the pre-Copernican view of Davies. Such an assumption is ridiculed as an absurdity. "Man, who here seems principal alone, Perhaps acts...sphere unknown, Touches some wheel, or verges to some goal."1 Pope's view of the achievement and the limitation of Newton is apparent in his summary of the...
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HOYT'S NEW CYCLOPEDIA OF PRACTICAL QUOTATIONS

KATE LOUISE ROBERTS - 1922 - 1422 pages
...man. PLAUTUS — Asinaria. II. 4. A minister, but still a man. POPE — Epistle to James Craggs. 7 "Pis but a part we see, and not a whole. POPE — Essay on Man. Ep. IL 57. 8 Know then thyself, presume...
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