The Works of Alexander Pope, Esq: Moral essaysJ. and P. Knapton, 1752 |
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... the ufe of RICHES 225 EPISTLE IV . Of the use of RICHES 272 EPISTLE V. To Mr. Addison , occafioned by his dialogues on MEDALS 303 VOL . III . a AN ; ΑΝ ESSAY Ο Ν SATIRE , Occafioned by the Contents of the Third Volume ,
... the ufe of RICHES 225 EPISTLE IV . Of the use of RICHES 272 EPISTLE V. To Mr. Addison , occafioned by his dialogues on MEDALS 303 VOL . III . a AN ; ΑΝ ESSAY Ο Ν SATIRE , Occafioned by the Contents of the Third Volume ,
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... use my lord Bacon's expreffion ) come home to Men's Business and Bo- foms , I thought it more fatisfactory to begin with con- fidering Men in the abftract , his Nature and his State ; fince , to prove any moral Duty , to enforce any ...
... use my lord Bacon's expreffion ) come home to Men's Business and Bo- foms , I thought it more fatisfactory to begin with con- fidering Men in the abftract , his Nature and his State ; fince , to prove any moral Duty , to enforce any ...
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... use , So Man , who here feems principal alone , Perhaps acts fecond to fome sphere unknown , Touches fome wheel , or verges to some goal ; ' Tis but a part we fee , and not a whole . When the proud steed shall know why Man reftrains His ...
... use , So Man , who here feems principal alone , Perhaps acts fecond to fome sphere unknown , Touches fome wheel , or verges to some goal ; ' Tis but a part we fee , and not a whole . When the proud steed shall know why Man reftrains His ...
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... use , with regard to the Univerfe , in a Borgia or a Catiline ? But you fay you can fee the one and not the other . You fay right : one terminates in this fyftem , the other refers to the whole of which none are capable of judging but ...
... use , with regard to the Univerfe , in a Borgia or a Catiline ? But you fay you can fee the one and not the other . You fay right : one terminates in this fyftem , the other refers to the whole of which none are capable of judging but ...
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... use : Now what use could he have of them , when he had robbed them of all their qualitics ? Qualities , diftributed with the highest wifdom , as they are divided at prefent ; but which , if bestowed according to the froward humour of ...
... use : Now what use could he have of them , when he had robbed them of all their qualitics ? Qualities , diftributed with the highest wifdom , as they are divided at prefent ; but which , if bestowed according to the froward humour of ...
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Página 24 - 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 86 - Let them praise the name of the Lord: for his name alone is excellent; his glory is above the earth and heaven.
Página 155 - 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, oh, teach my heart To find that better way...
Página 76 - See life dissolving vegetate again: All forms that perish other forms supply; (By turns we catch the vital breath, and die) Like bubbles on the sea of Matter borne, They rise, they break, and to that sea return.
Página 154 - 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 16 - The scale of sensual, mental powers ascends : Mark how it mounts to man's imperial race, From the green myriads in the peopled grass...
Página 279 - No pleasing intricacies intervene, No artful wildness to perplex the scene ; Grove nods at grove, each alley has a brother, And half the platform just reflects the other.
Página 126 - tis the price of toil; The knave deserves it, when he tills the soil, The knave deserves it, when he tempts the main, Where folly fights for kings, or dives for gain. The good man may be weak, be indolent ; Nor is his claim to plenty, but content.
Página 19 - Were we to press, inferior might on ours; Or in the full creation leave a void, Where, one step broken, the great scale's destroy'd: From Nature's chain whatever link you strike, Tenth, or ten thousandth, breaks the chain alike. And, if each system in gradation roll Alike essential to th' amazing whole, The least confusion but in one, not all That system only, but the whole must fall.
Página 59 - The learn'd is happy nature to explore, The fool is happy that he knows no more ; The rich is happy in the plenty giv'n, 265 The poor contents him With the care of Heav'n.