The Works of Alexander Pope Esq, Volumen3J. and P. Knapton [and others], 1751 |
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Página x
... She , Pow'r refiftlefs , rules the wife and great , Bends ev'n reluctant Hermits at her feet ; Haunts the proud City , and the lowly Shade , And sways alike the Scepter and the Spade . Thus Heav'n in Pity wakes the friendly Flame , To ...
... She , Pow'r refiftlefs , rules the wife and great , Bends ev'n reluctant Hermits at her feet ; Haunts the proud City , and the lowly Shade , And sways alike the Scepter and the Spade . Thus Heav'n in Pity wakes the friendly Flame , To ...
Página xiii
... She points the arduous height where Glory lies , And teaches mad Ambition to be wife : In the dark bofom wakes the fair defire , Draws good from ill , a brighter flame from fire ; Strips black Oppreffion of her gay disguise , And bids ...
... She points the arduous height where Glory lies , And teaches mad Ambition to be wife : In the dark bofom wakes the fair defire , Draws good from ill , a brighter flame from fire ; Strips black Oppreffion of her gay disguise , And bids ...
Página xiv
... she draws a healing dew : 110 Weak are the ties that civil arts can find , 115 To quell the ferment of the tainted mind : Cunning evades , fecurely wrapt in wiles ; And force ftrong - finew'd rends th ' unequal toils : The stream of ...
... she draws a healing dew : 110 Weak are the ties that civil arts can find , 115 To quell the ferment of the tainted mind : Cunning evades , fecurely wrapt in wiles ; And force ftrong - finew'd rends th ' unequal toils : The stream of ...
Página xv
... she draws her quill : Her magic quill , that , like ITHURIEL's fpear , 135 Reveals the cloven hoof , or lengthen'd ear : Bids Vice and Folly take their natural fhapes , Turns Ducheffes to ftrumpets , Beaux to apes ; Drags the vile Whisp ...
... she draws her quill : Her magic quill , that , like ITHURIEL's fpear , 135 Reveals the cloven hoof , or lengthen'd ear : Bids Vice and Folly take their natural fhapes , Turns Ducheffes to ftrumpets , Beaux to apes ; Drags the vile Whisp ...
Página xviii
... she strike , be sure she strike a foe . Nor fondly deem the real fool confeft , Because blind Ridicule conceives a jeft : Before whose altar Virtue oft hath bled , And oft a deftin'd Victim shall be led : Lo , Shaftfb'ry rears her high ...
... she strike , be sure she strike a foe . Nor fondly deem the real fool confeft , Because blind Ridicule conceives a jeft : Before whose altar Virtue oft hath bled , And oft a deftin'd Victim shall be led : Lo , Shaftfb'ry rears her high ...
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Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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...
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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!
Página 141 - That charm shall grow, while what fatigues the Ring, Flaunts and goes down, an unregarded thing...