The Works of Alexander Pope, Volumen3J. F. Dove, St. John's Square, 1822 |
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... pride of aiming at more knowledge , and pretending to more perfection , the cause of Man's error and misery . The impiety of putting himself in the place of God , and judging of the fitness or unfitness , perfection or imperfection ...
... pride of aiming at more knowledge , and pretending to more perfection , the cause of Man's error and misery . The impiety of putting himself in the place of God , and judging of the fitness or unfitness , perfection or imperfection ...
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... pride of Kings . Let us ( since Life can little more supply Than just to look about us and to die ) Expatiate free o'er all this scene of Man ; A mighty maze ! but not without a plan ; A wild , where weeds and flow'rs promiscuous shoot ...
... pride of Kings . Let us ( since Life can little more supply Than just to look about us and to die ) Expatiate free o'er all this scene of Man ; A mighty maze ! but not without a plan ; A wild , where weeds and flow'rs promiscuous shoot ...
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... pride and dulness comprehend 65 His actions ' , passion's , being's , use and end ; Why doing , suff'ring , check'd , impell'd ; and why This hour a slave , the next a deity . Then say not Man's imperfect , Heaven's in fault ; Say ...
... pride and dulness comprehend 65 His actions ' , passion's , being's , use and end ; Why doing , suff'ring , check'd , impell'd ; and why This hour a slave , the next a deity . Then say not Man's imperfect , Heaven's in fault ; Say ...
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... pride , he upbraids them ( from ver . 98 to 113. ) with the ex- ample of the poor Indian , to whom also Nature hath given this common HOPE of Mankind : but though his untutor'd mind had betrayed him into many childish fancies concerning ...
... pride , he upbraids them ( from ver . 98 to 113. ) with the ex- ample of the poor Indian , to whom also Nature hath given this common HOPE of Mankind : but though his untutor'd mind had betrayed him into many childish fancies concerning ...
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... pride only that makes you think yourself ill - treated , and induces you to look for another and more perfect state . " 66 Bolingbroke is for ever repeating the same note , and saying , It is profane even to insinuate , and much more to ...
... pride only that makes you think yourself ill - treated , and induces you to look for another and more perfect state . " 66 Bolingbroke is for ever repeating the same note , and saying , It is profane even to insinuate , and much more to ...
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Página 19 - Who sees with equal eye, as God of all, A hero perish, or a sparrow fall, Atoms or systems into ruin hurl'd, And now a bubble burst, and now a world.
Página 41 - 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 21 - Lo the poor Indian ! whose untutor'd mind Sees God in clouds, or hears him in the wind ; His soul, proud science never taught to stray Far as the solar walk, or milky way...
Página 164 - Let not this weak, unknowing hand Presume thy bolts to throw, And deal damnation round the land On each I judge thy foe. If I am right, thy grace impart, Still in the right to stay ; If I am wrong, O teach my heart To find that better way.
Página 163 - What conscience dictates to be done, Or warns me not to do, This teach me more than hell to shun, That, more than heav'n pursue. What blessings Thy free bounty gives, Let me not cast away; For God is paid when man receives, To enjoy is to obey.
Página 22 - In Pride, in reas'ning Pride, our error lies; All quit their sphere, and rush into the skies. Pride still is aiming at the blest abodes, Men would be Angels, Angels would be Gods. Aspiring to be Gods, if Angels fell, Aspiring to be Angels, Men rebel: And who but wishes to invert the laws Of Order, sins against th
Página 96 - Praise ye him, sun and moon : Praise him, all ye stars of light. Praise him, ye heavens of heavens, And ye waters that be above the heavens. Let them praise the name of the LORD: For he commanded, and they were created.
Página 90 - Nature that tyrant checks; he only knows, And helps, another creature's wants and woes. Say, will the falcon, stooping from above, Smit with her varying plumage, spare the dove?
Página 116 - His can't be wrong whose life is in the right: In faith and hope the world will disagree, But all mankind's concern is charity: All must be false that thwart this one great end ; And all of God, that bless mankind, or mend. 310 Man, like the gen'rous vine, supported lives; The strength he gains is from th
Página 78 - Bids each on other for assistance call, 'Till one man's weakness grows the strength of all Wants, frailties, passions, closer still ally The common int'rest, or endear the tie.