Essai sur l'homme: poëme philosophique par Alexandre Pope, en cinq langues, savoir: anglois, latin, italien, françois & allemandKönig, 1772 - 351 pages |
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Page 51
... Hæc , age ! mortalis minimum fpectacula vitæ Attentis oculis procul afpiciamus uterque . Prodigio , en fimilis labyrinthus , at ordine conftans Sat certo , en ! certis diftinctus legibus error . En ! Tibi diffufos campos , fructus ubi ...
... Hæc , age ! mortalis minimum fpectacula vitæ Attentis oculis procul afpiciamus uterque . Prodigio , en fimilis labyrinthus , at ordine conftans Sat certo , en ! certis diftinctus legibus error . En ! Tibi diffufos campos , fructus ubi ...
Page 52
... hæc systemata mundi , Ordinis ac legis variæ , complectere mente , Quamque ea se valido fpectent , ediffere , nexu . Soles quære alios , alios exquire Planetas . Quam varia in variis habitent animalia ftellis , Ordine dic nobis . Et tum ...
... hæc systemata mundi , Ordinis ac legis variæ , complectere mente , Quamque ea se valido fpectent , ediffere , nexu . Soles quære alios , alios exquire Planetas . Quam varia in variis habitent animalia ftellis , Ordine dic nobis . Et tum ...
Page 53
... Hæc , age , quæ mundi partes contrectat & unit , Et quæ confenfu totum hoc confervat amico , Hæccine , quæfo , Dei , tam vafta Catena tenetur , Aut Hominis , manibus , fupera virtute tenendi ? , Tune , Superbe , audes rationem reddere ...
... Hæc , age , quæ mundi partes contrectat & unit , Et quæ confenfu totum hoc confervat amico , Hæccine , quæfo , Dei , tam vafta Catena tenetur , Aut Hominis , manibus , fupera virtute tenendi ? , Tune , Superbe , audes rationem reddere ...
Page 54
... hæc ! quam prorfus nescia falli ! Sic homo vel princeps noftro effe videtur in orbe Et cauffa & finis rerum , qui forfitan ipfe Nefcius ignotæ fphæræ , cauffæque prioris Subjacet arbitriis , clandeftinoque rotatus Impulfu , totus folet ...
... hæc ! quam prorfus nescia falli ! Sic homo vel princeps noftro effe videtur in orbe Et cauffa & finis rerum , qui forfitan ipfe Nefcius ignotæ fphæræ , cauffæque prioris Subjacet arbitriis , clandeftinoque rotatus Impulfu , totus folet ...
Page 62
... Hæc duo quam parvo , quam nullo , limite diftant ? Semper funt a fe diftincta modoque graduque , 385 1 Semper funt eadem certo fibi proxima nexu . Quæ reminiscendi , quæ cauta viscera rerum Mente penetrandi , fociat connexio , vires ...
... Hæc duo quam parvo , quam nullo , limite diftant ? Semper funt a fe diftincta modoque graduque , 385 1 Semper funt eadem certo fibi proxima nexu . Quæ reminiscendi , quæ cauta viscera rerum Mente penetrandi , fociat connexio , vires ...
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Page 7 - 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.
Page 1 - 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 9 - KNOW then thyself, presume not God to scan; The proper study of mankind is man. Placed on this isthmus of a middle state, A being darkly wise, and rudely great : 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...
Page 6 - To serve mere engines to the ruling mind? Just as absurd for any part to claim To be another, in this...
Page 1 - Heaven from all creatures hides the book of fate All but the page prescribed, 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, Had he thy reason, would he skip and play ? Pleased to the last, he crops the flowery food, And licks the hand just raised to shed his blood.
Page 9 - 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...
Page 5 - The scale of sensual, mental powers ascends : Mark how it mounts to man's imperial race, From the green myriads in the peopled grass...
Page 35 - 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.
Page 37 - But by your father's worth if yours you rate, Count me those only who were good and great. Go! if your ancient but ignoble blood Has crept through scoundrels ever since the flood, Go! and pretend your family is young; Nor own your fathers have been fools so long. What can ennoble sots, or slaves, or cowards? Alas! not all the blood of all the Howards.
Page 20 - 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.