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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... lies ; All quit their sphere , and rush into the skies . Pride still is aiming at the blest abodes , 1 1 1 Men would be angels , angels would be gods . Aspiring to be gods , if angels fell , Aspiring to be angels , men rebel ; And who ...
... lies ; All quit their sphere , and rush into the skies . Pride still is aiming at the blest abodes , 1 1 1 Men would be angels , angels would be gods . Aspiring to be gods , if angels fell , Aspiring to be angels , men rebel ; And who ...
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... lies , Form'd but to check , delib'rate , and advise . Self - love still stronger , as its object's nigh ; Reason's at distance , and in prospect lie : That sees immediate good by present sense ; Reason , the future , and the ...
... lies , Form'd but to check , delib'rate , and advise . Self - love still stronger , as its object's nigh ; Reason's at distance , and in prospect lie : That sees immediate good by present sense ; Reason , the future , and the ...
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... lies , O'erlook'd , seen double , by the fool and wise , Plant of celestial seed ; if dropt below , Say , in what mortal soil thou deign'st to grow ? Fair op'ning to some courts propitious shine , Or deep with di'monds in the flaming ...
... lies , O'erlook'd , seen double , by the fool and wise , Plant of celestial seed ; if dropt below , Say , in what mortal soil thou deign'st to grow ? Fair op'ning to some courts propitious shine , Or deep with di'monds in the flaming ...
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... Lie in three words , health , peace and competencc . But health consists with temperance alone ; And peace , O virtue ! peace is all thy own . The good or bad the gifts of fortune gain ; 75 80 But these less taste them , as they worse ...
... Lie in three words , health , peace and competencc . But health consists with temperance alone ; And peace , O virtue ! peace is all thy own . The good or bad the gifts of fortune gain ; 75 80 But these less taste them , as they worse ...
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... lies . Fortune in men has some small diff'rence made , One flaunt in rags , one flutters in brocade ; The cobbler apron'd , and the parson gown'd , The friar hooded , and the monarch crown'd . 195 " What differ more ( you cry ) than ...
... lies . Fortune in men has some small diff'rence made , One flaunt in rags , one flutters in brocade ; The cobbler apron'd , and the parson gown'd , The friar hooded , and the monarch crown'd . 195 " What differ more ( you cry ) than ...
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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...