The Works of Alexander Pope, Volume 3J. F. Dove, St. John's Square, 1822 |
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... Heav'n has made us as we are . NOTES . taigne ) est une mauvaise qualité ; mais ne la pouvoir supporter , et s'en dépiter et rouger , comme il m'advient , c'est une autre sorte de maladie , qui ne doit gueres à la sottise en importunité ...
... Heav'n has made us as we are . NOTES . taigne ) est une mauvaise qualité ; mais ne la pouvoir supporter , et s'en dépiter et rouger , comme il m'advient , c'est une autre sorte de maladie , qui ne doit gueres à la sottise en importunité ...
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... Heav'n from all creatures hides the book of Fate , All but the page prescrib'd , their present state : From brutes what men , from men what spirits know : Or who could suffer Being here below ? The lamb thy riot dooms to bleed to day ...
... Heav'n from all creatures hides the book of Fate , All but the page prescrib'd , their present state : From brutes what men , from men what spirits know : Or who could suffer Being here below ? The lamb thy riot dooms to bleed to day ...
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... Heav'n's high care , Alone made perfect here , immortal there : 120 VARIATIONS . After Ver . 108 , in the first Ed . But does he say the Maker is not good , Till he's exalted to what state he would : Himself alone high Heav'n's peculiar ...
... Heav'n's high care , Alone made perfect here , immortal there : 120 VARIATIONS . After Ver . 108 , in the first Ed . But does he say the Maker is not good , Till he's exalted to what state he would : Himself alone high Heav'n's peculiar ...
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... Heav'n in those , in these acquit ? In both , to reason right is to submit . Better for Us , perhaps , it might appear , Were there all harmony , all virtue here ; That never air or ocean felt the wind ; That never passion discompos'd ...
... Heav'n in those , in these acquit ? In both , to reason right is to submit . Better for Us , perhaps , it might appear , Were there all harmony , all virtue here ; That never air or ocean felt the wind ; That never passion discompos'd ...
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... Heav'n unkind to Man , and Man alone ? Shall he alone , whom rational we call , 185 Be pleas'd with nothing , if not bless'd with all ? The bliss of Man ( could Pride that blessing find ) Is not to act or think beyond mankind ; 190 No ...
... Heav'n unkind to Man , and Man alone ? Shall he alone , whom rational we call , 185 Be pleas'd with nothing , if not bless'd with all ? The bliss of Man ( could Pride that blessing find ) Is not to act or think beyond mankind ; 190 No ...
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Page 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.
Page 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.
Page 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...
Page 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.
Page 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.
Page 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
Page 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.
Page 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?
Page 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.
Page 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.