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Common terms and phrasesalike Angels bear Beast Behold bless'd Blessing blest blind Bliss Breath Cataline Chain Chartres confin'd Creature Dean is dead Death destroy'd dy'd e'er Earth Ease Envy EPISTLE eternal ev'n ev'ry Faith fame Fav'rite Fear Flow'r Folly Fool form'd Friend funk gen'ral giv'n gives Glory God's Gole Gout Gradation Happiness Heart Heav'n Honour Hope human Human-kind hurl'd Indolence infix Instinct Int'rest Judge Kind Kings Knave Laws Learn'd Libels living Lord Love Madness Man's Mankind Mind mix'd Monarch moral mourn Nature Nature's Nature's Law Neighbour never o'er Paffion Pain Passions plac'd Planets Pleasure Pow'r pretend Pride Principle proud rais'd Reason rest rise Satyrs Self-Love Sense Skies Skreen Slave Soul Sphere Spleen System taught Tempests thee there's thine Things thinks thou thro Toil true Twas Tyrant Verse Vice or Virtue Wants weak Whate'er Whole Wife wise World Popular passagesPage 9 - With too much knowledge for the Sceptic side, With too much weakness for the Stoic's pride, He hangs between, in doubt to act or rest; In doubt to deem himself a God or Beast; In doubt his mind or body to prefer; Born but to die, and reas'ning but to err... Page 30 - The only point where human bliss stands still, And tastes the good without the fall to ill ; Where only merit... Page 10 - Created half to rise, and half to fall: Great lord of all things, yet a prey to all; Sole judge of truth, in endless error hurl'd; The glory jest, and riddle of the world! Page 27 - 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 prunella. Page 28 - Who wickedly is wise, or madly brave, Is but the more a fool, the more a knave. Page 2 - 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 ? Thro' worlds unnumber'd tho' the God be known, "Tis ours to trace him only in our own. Page 10 - Man, but for that, no action could attend, And, but for this, were active to no end: Fix'd like a plant on his peculiar spot, To draw nutrition, propagate, and rot: Or, meteor-like, flame lawless through the void, Destroying others, by himself destroy'd. Page 27 - The friar hooded, and the monarch crown'd. " What differ more (you cry) than crown and cowl !" I'll tell you, friend ! a wise man and a fool. Page 18 - Joy tunes his voice, joy elevates his wings. Is it for thee the linnet pours his throat ? Loves of his own and raptures swell the note. Page 1 - The latent tracts, the giddy heights, explore Of all who blindly creep, or sightless soar; Eye Nature's walks, shoot Folly as it flies, And catch the manners living as they rise; Laugh where we must, be candid where we can; But vindicate the ways of God to man. Bibliographic information
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