An Essay on Man: In Four Epistles to H. St. John, Lord Bolingbroke, to which is Added The Universal PrayerS. Andrus, 1824 - 67 páginas |
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... extend , above and below us ; we any part of which broken , not that part only , but t whole connected creation , must be destroyed , ver . 233. I The extravagance , madness , and pride of such a desir ver . 250. X. The consequence of ...
... extend , above and below us ; we any part of which broken , not that part only , but t whole connected creation , must be destroyed , ver . 233. I The extravagance , madness , and pride of such a desir ver . 250. X. The consequence of ...
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... extends , The scale of sensual , mental pow'rs ascends : Mark how it mounts to man's imperial race , From the green ... extend below ! 235 Vast chain of being ! which from God began , 2 ESSAY ON MAN . 17 Alike in what it gives, and what ...
... extends , The scale of sensual , mental pow'rs ascends : Mark how it mounts to man's imperial race , From the green ... extend below ! 235 Vast chain of being ! which from God began , 2 ESSAY ON MAN . 17 Alike in what it gives, and what ...
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... extends through all extent ; Spreads undivided , operates unspent ; Breathes in our soul , informs our mortal part , 275 As full , as perfect , in a hair as heart ; As full , as perfect , in vile man that mourns , As the rapt seraph ...
... extends through all extent ; Spreads undivided , operates unspent ; Breathes in our soul , informs our mortal part , 275 As full , as perfect , in a hair as heart ; As full , as perfect , in vile man that mourns , As the rapt seraph ...
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... extending , all - preserving soul 20 Connects each being , greatest with the least ; Made beast in aid of man , and man of beast ; All serv'd , all serving : nothing stands alone ; The chain holds on , and where it ends , unknown . Has ...
... extending , all - preserving soul 20 Connects each being , greatest with the least ; Made beast in aid of man , and man of beast ; All serv'd , all serving : nothing stands alone ; The chain holds on , and where it ends , unknown . Has ...
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... love succeeds , another race . 130 A longer care man's helpless kind demands ; That longer care contracts more lasting bands . Reflection , reason , still the ties improve , At once extend the int'rest and the love ; With ESSAY ON MAN . 33.
... love succeeds , another race . 130 A longer care man's helpless kind demands ; That longer care contracts more lasting bands . Reflection , reason , still the ties improve , At once extend the int'rest and the love ; With ESSAY ON MAN . 33.
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Términos y frases comunes
acts the soul alike angels ARGUMENT OF EPISTLE beast blessing blest blind bliss breath Catiline chain charity comets confest creature death diff'rence earth ease EPISTLE IV Essay eternal ethereal Ev'n ev'ry faith fame father fear fix'd folly fool form'd forms gen'ral giv'n gives gods happiness heart Heav'n honour hope human imperfect indolent instinct int'rest justice kings knave Learn learn'd lives Lord man's mankind mind mix'd monarch moral nature nature's nature's law never o'er O'erlook'd pain passion peace perfect plac'd planets pleasure poet Pope pow'rs pride principle proper Racine reas'ning religion rill rise seen double self-love and social sense seraph sev'ral shade sire skies Socrates Sonnet sphere taught tempests thee thine things thou toil truth Turenne Twas tyrant Universal Prayer virtue's weak Whate'er whole wise
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Página 10 - AWAKE, my St John ! leave all meaner things To low ambition, and the pride of kings. Let us (since life can little more supply Than just to look about us and to die...
Página 46 - I'll tell you, friend, a wise man and a fool. You'll find, if once the monarch acts the monk, Or, cobbler-like, the parson will be drunk, Worth makes the man, and want of it the fellow : The rest is all but leather or prunello.
Página 17 - What modes of sight betwixt each wide extreme, The mole's dim curtain, and the lynx's beam; Of smell, the headlong lioness between, And hound sagacious on the tainted green ; Of hearing, from the life that fills the flood, To that which warbles through the vernal wood.
Página 50 - Yet not to earth's contracted span Thy goodness let me bound, Or think Thee Lord alone of man. When thousand worlds are round.
Página 40 - Some place the bliss in action, some in ease, Those call it pleasure, and contentment these: Some sunk to beasts, find pleasure end in pain ; Some swell'd to gods, confess e'en virtue vain!
Página 40 - Twin'd with the wreaths Parnassian laurels yield, Or reap'd in iron harvests of the field ? • Where grows ? — where grows it not? If vain our toil, We ought to blame the culture, not the soil...
Página 50 - Teach me to feel another's woe, To hide the fault I see; That mercy I to others show, That mercy show to me.
Página 46 - Honour and shame from no condition rise ; Act well your part, there all the honour lies.
Página 51 - HAPPY the man whose wish and care A few paternal acres bound, Content to breathe his native air In his own ground. Whose herds with milk, whose fields with bread, Whose flocks supply him with attire ; Whose trees in summer yield him shade, In winter, fire.
Página 48 - Correct with spirit, eloquent with ease, Intent to reason, or polite to please. O ! while along the stream of Time thy name Expanded flies, and gathers all its fame, Say, shall my little bark attendant sail, Pursue the triumph, and partake the gale...