An Essay on Man: In Four Epistles to H. St. John, Lord Bolingbroke, to which is Added The Universal Prayer |
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... Heav'n in fault ; Say rather , man's as perfect as he ought ; 70 His knowledge measur'd to his state and place , His time a moment , and a point his space . If to be perfect in a certain sphere , What matter soon or late , or here or ...
... Heav'n in fault ; Say rather , man's as perfect as he ought ; 70 His knowledge measur'd to his state and place , His time a moment , and a point his space . If to be perfect in a certain sphere , What matter soon or late , or here or ...
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... Heav'n ; 10 sees with equal eye , as God of all , iero perish , or a sparrow fall , ms or systems into ruin hurl'd d now a bubble burst , and now a world . Hope humbly then ; with trembling pinions soar : ait the great teacher , death ...
... Heav'n ; 10 sees with equal eye , as God of all , iero perish , or a sparrow fall , ms or systems into ruin hurl'd d now a bubble burst , and now a world . Hope humbly then ; with trembling pinions soar : ait the great teacher , death ...
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... Heav'n in those , in these acquit ? In both , to reason right , is to submit . 165 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 ...
... Heav'n in those , in these acquit ? In both , to reason right , is to submit . 165 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 ...
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... heav'n ? Or touch , if tremblingly alive all o'er , To smart and agonize at every pore ? Or quick effluvia darting through the brain , Die of a rose in aromatic pain ? 200 If nature thunder'd in his opening ears , And stunn'd him with ...
... heav'n ? Or touch , if tremblingly alive all o'er , To smart and agonize at every pore ? Or quick effluvia darting through the brain , Die of a rose in aromatic pain ? 200 If nature thunder'd in his opening ears , And stunn'd him with ...
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... Heav'n's whole foundations to their centre nod , And nature tremble , to the throne of God : 240 245 250 255 All this dread order break - For whom ? For thee ? Vile worm ! O madness ! pride ! impiety ! IX . What if the foot , ordain'd ...
... Heav'n's whole foundations to their centre nod , And nature tremble , to the throne of God : 240 245 250 255 All this dread order break - For whom ? For thee ? Vile worm ! O madness ! pride ! impiety ! IX . What if the foot , ordain'd ...
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acts the soul alike angels ARGUMENT OF EPISTLE beast blessing blest blind bliss breath Catiline chain charity comets confest creature death diff'rence earth ease EPISTLE IV 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 pleasure poet Pope pow'rs pride principle proper Racine reas'ning religion rill rise seen double self-love and social sense seraph sev'ral shade sire skies Socrates Sonnet sphere taught tempests thee thine things thou toil truth Turenne Twas tyrant Universal Prayer virtue's weak Whate'er whole wise
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Page 10 - AWAKE, my St John ! leave all meaner things To low ambition, and the pride of kings. Let us (since life can little more supply Than just to look about us and to die...
Page 46 - 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 prunello.
Page 17 - 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.
Page 50 - Yet not to earth's contracted span Thy goodness let me bound, Or think Thee Lord alone of man. When thousand worlds are round.
Page 40 - Some place the bliss in action, some in ease, Those call it pleasure, and contentment these: Some sunk to beasts, find pleasure end in pain ; Some swell'd to gods, confess e'en virtue vain!
Page 40 - Twin'd with the wreaths Parnassian laurels yield, Or reap'd in iron harvests of the field ? • Where grows ? — where grows it not? If vain our toil, We ought to blame the culture, not the soil...
Page 50 - Teach me to feel another's woe, To hide the fault I see; That mercy I to others show, That mercy show to me.
Page 46 - Honour and shame from no condition rise ; Act well your part, there all the honour lies.
Page 51 - HAPPY the man whose wish and care A few paternal acres bound, Content to breathe his native air In his own ground. Whose herds with milk, whose fields with bread, Whose flocks supply him with attire ; Whose trees in summer yield him shade, In winter, fire.
Page 48 - Correct with spirit, eloquent with ease, Intent to reason, or polite to please. O ! while along the stream of Time thy name Expanded flies, and gathers all its fame, Say, shall my little bark attendant sail, Pursue the triumph, and partake the gale...