An Essay on Man: In Four Epistles to H. St. John, Lord Bolingbroke : to which is Added, The Universal PrayerSilas Andrus, 1832 - 67 pages |
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... began a thousand years ago . III . Heaven 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 ? 80 The ...
... began a thousand years ago . III . Heaven 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 ? 80 The ...
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... began : " And what created perfect ? " Why then man ? If the great end be human happiness , Then nature deviates : and can man do less ? As much that end a constant course requires Of showers and sunshine , as of man's desires ; As much ...
... began : " And what created perfect ? " Why then man ? If the great end be human happiness , Then nature deviates : and can man do less ? As much that end a constant course requires Of showers and sunshine , as of man's desires ; As much ...
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... , and bursting into birth . Above , how high progressive life may go ! Around , how wide ! how deep extend below ! 235 Vast chain of being ! which from God began , 2 * ESSAY ON MAN . 17 17 Alike in what it gives, and what denies? ...
... , and bursting into birth . Above , how high progressive life may go ! Around , how wide ! how deep extend below ! 235 Vast chain of being ! which from God began , 2 * ESSAY ON MAN . 17 17 Alike in what it gives, and what denies? ...
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... began , Nature's ethereal , human , angel , man , Beast , bird , fish , insect ! what no eye can see , No glass can reach ; from infinite to thee ; From thee to nothing - On superior pow'rs Were we to press , inferior might on ours : Or ...
... began , Nature's ethereal , human , angel , man , Beast , bird , fish , insect ! what no eye can see , No glass can reach ; from infinite to thee ; From thee to nothing - On superior pow'rs Were we to press , inferior might on ours : Or ...
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... began : Mem❜ry and forecast just returns engage , That pointed back to youth , this on to age ; While pleasure , gratitude , and hope combin❜d , Still spread the int'rest , and preserv'd the kind . 140 145 IV . Nor think , in nature's ...
... began : Mem❜ry and forecast just returns engage , That pointed back to youth , this on to age ; While pleasure , gratitude , and hope combin❜d , Still spread the int'rest , and preserv'd the kind . 140 145 IV . Nor think , in nature's ...
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acts the soul ALEXANDER POPE alike angels ARGUMENT OF EPISTLE beast blessing blest blind bliss breath Catiline chain comets confest creature death diff'rence earth ease EPISTLE II Essay eternal ethereal Ev'n ev'ry faith fame father fear fix'd folly fool form'd forms gen'ral giv'n gives gods happiness heart Heav'n honour hope human imperfect indolent instinct int'rest justice kings knave Learn learn'd lives Lord man's mankind mind mix'd monarch moral nature nature's nature's law never o'er O'erlook'd pain passion peace perfect plac'd planets Pleas'd pleasure POPE pow'rs pride principle proper rest rill rise seen double self-love and social sense seraph sev'ral shade sire skies Socrates sphere taught tempests thee thine things thou toil truth Turenne Twas tyrant UNIVERSAL PRAYER virtue's weak Whate'er whole wise YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY
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Page 49 - The only point where human bliss stands still, And tastes the good without the fall to ill ; Where only merit constant pay receives, Is...
Page 19 - 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 24 - As man, perhaps, the moment of his breath Receives the lurking principle of death; The young disease, that must subdue at length, Grows with his growth, and strengthens with his strength; So, cast and mingled with his very frame.
Page 54 - Yet not to earth's contracted span Thy goodness let me bound, Or think Thee Lord alone of man, When thousand worlds are round. Let not this weak, unknowing hand Presume thy bolts to throw, And deal damnation round the land On each I judge thy foe.
Page 51 - God loves from whole to parts: but human soul Must rise from individual to the whole. Self-love but serves the virtuous mind to wake, As the small pebble stirs the peaceful lake; The centre moved, a circle straight succeeds, Another still, and still another spreads; Friend, parent, neighbour, first it will embrace; His country next; and next all human race...
Page 13 - Hope humbly then ; with trembling pinions soar ; Wait the great teacher, Death ; and God adore. What future bliss, He gives not thee to know, But gives that hope to be thy blessing now. Hope springs eternal in the human breast : Man never Is, but always To be blest : The soul, uneasy and confined from home, Rests and expatiates in a life to come.
Page 39 - In Faith and Hope the world will disagree; But all Mankind's concern is Charity: All must be false that thwart this one great end ; And all of God, that bless Mankind, or mend. Man, like the gen'rous vine supported lives; The strength he gains is from th
Page 45 - Go, like the Indian, in another life Expect thy dog, thy bottle, and thy wife ; As well as dream such trifles are assign'd, As toys and empires, for a godlike mind : Rewards, that either would to virtue bring No joy, or be destructive of the thing : How oft...
Page 56 - Hark! they whisper; Angels say, Sister Spirit, come away. What is this absorbs me quite? Steals my senses, shuts my sight, Drowns my spirits, draws my breath?
Page 54 - Teach me to feel another's woe, To hide the fault I see; That mercy I to others show, That mercy show to me.