The Works of Alexander Pope, Volumen3J. F. Dove, St. John's Square, 1822 |
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... mean , and disgraceful . Our Author , more wise and temperate , has endeavoured to reconcile Self - love with social , and private good with universal happiness . He had the hint from Shaftesbury : " If there can possibly be supposed in ...
... mean , and disgraceful . Our Author , more wise and temperate , has endeavoured to reconcile Self - love with social , and private good with universal happiness . He had the hint from Shaftesbury : " If there can possibly be supposed in ...
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... means ; the difference being this , that the first hastily seizes every thing which hath the appearance of good ; the other weighs and examines whether it be indeed what it appears . This shews , as he next observes , the folly of the ...
... means ; the difference being this , that the first hastily seizes every thing which hath the appearance of good ; the other weighs and examines whether it be indeed what it appears . This shews , as he next observes , the folly of the ...
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... means be fair , List under Reason , and deserve her care ; Those , that imparted , court a nobler aim , Exalt their kind , and take some Virtue's name . 100 In lazy Apathy let Stoics boast Their Virtue fix'd ; ' tis fix'd as in a frost ...
... means be fair , List under Reason , and deserve her care ; Those , that imparted , court a nobler aim , Exalt their kind , and take some Virtue's name . 100 In lazy Apathy let Stoics boast Their Virtue fix'd ; ' tis fix'd as in a frost ...
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... means ? He replies ( from Ver . 202 to 205 ) by conscience ; -the God within the mind ; - and this is to the purpose ; for it is a Man's own concern , and no one's else , to know whether his virtue be pure and solid ; for what is it to ...
... means ? He replies ( from Ver . 202 to 205 ) by conscience ; -the God within the mind ; - and this is to the purpose ; for it is a Man's own concern , and no one's else , to know whether his virtue be pure and solid ; for what is it to ...
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... Mean - while opinion gilds with varying rays Those painted clouds that beautify our days : Each want of happiness by Hope supply'd , And each vacuity of sense by Pride : These build as fast as knowledge can destroy ; In folly's cup ...
... Mean - while opinion gilds with varying rays Those painted clouds that beautify our days : Each want of happiness by Hope supply'd , And each vacuity of sense by Pride : These build as fast as knowledge can destroy ; In folly's cup ...
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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 165 - 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 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 166 - 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 12 - 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? 20 Thro' worlds unnumber'd tho' the God be known, 'Tis ours to trace him only in our own.
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 164 - To know but this, that Thou art good, And that myself am blind ; Yet gave me, in this dark estate, To see the good from ill ; And binding nature fast in fate, Left free the human will.
Página 35 - 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 ? The spider's touch, how exquisitely fine ! Feels at each thread, and lives along the line : In the nice bee, what sense so subtly true From pois'nous herbs extracts the healing dew?
Página 202 - twould a saint provoke" (Were the last words that poor Narcissa spoke), " No, let a charming chintz, and Brussels lace Wrap my cold limbs, and shade my lifeless face : One would not, sure, be frightful when one's dead — And, Betty, give this cheek a little red.
Página 211 - No Thought advances, but her Eddy Brain Whisks it about, and down it goes again. Full sixty years the World has been her Trade, The wisest Fool much Time has ever made. From loveless youth to unrespected age, No Passion gratify'd except her Rage.