The works of Alexander Pope, with notes and illustrations, by himself and others. To which are added, a new life of the author [&c.] by W. Roscoe, Volume 41847 |
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... taste for these studies . The only fault lies in letting any of those inferior tastes engross the whole man , to the exclusion of the nobler pursuits of virtue and humanity . " Hutcheson's Nature and Conduct of the Passions , p . 179 ...
... taste for these studies . The only fault lies in letting any of those inferior tastes engross the whole man , to the exclusion of the nobler pursuits of virtue and humanity . " Hutcheson's Nature and Conduct of the Passions , p . 179 ...
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... taste the honey , and not wound the flow'r : Pleasure , or wrong or rightly understood , Our greatest evil , or our greatest good . 85 90 COMMENTARY . be true , human life would be most miserable ; and even in the wisest , a perpetual ...
... taste the honey , and not wound the flow'r : Pleasure , or wrong or rightly understood , Our greatest evil , or our greatest good . 85 90 COMMENTARY . be true , human life would be most miserable ; and even in the wisest , a perpetual ...
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... taste them , as they worse obtain . Say , in pursuit of profit or delight , 85 Who risk the most , that take wrong means , or right ? Of vice or virtue , whether blest or curs'd , Which meets contempt , or which compassion first ? Count ...
... taste them , as they worse obtain . Say , in pursuit of profit or delight , 85 Who risk the most , that take wrong means , or right ? Of vice or virtue , whether blest or curs'd , Which meets contempt , or which compassion first ? Count ...
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Alexander Pope Will Roscoe. The only point where human bliss stands still , And tastes the good without the fall to ill ; Where only merit constant pay receives , Is blest in what it takes , and what it gives ; The joy unequall'd , if ...
Alexander Pope Will Roscoe. The only point where human bliss stands still , And tastes the good without the fall to ill ; Where only merit constant pay receives , Is blest in what it takes , and what it gives ; The joy unequall'd , if ...
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... taste , but thinks can know : Yet poor with fortune , and with learning blind , The bad must miss ; the good , untaught , will find ; 330 Slave to no sect , who takes no private road , But looks through Nature , up to Nature's God ...
... taste , but thinks can know : Yet poor with fortune , and with learning blind , The bad must miss ; the good , untaught , will find ; 330 Slave to no sect , who takes no private road , But looks through Nature , up to Nature's God ...
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Page 425 - For modes of faith let graceless zealots fight; His can't be wrong whose life is in the right...
Page 48 - 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 340 - Bear, like the Turk, no brother near the throne, View him with scornful, yet with jealous eyes, And hate for arts that caused himself to rise; Damn with faint praise, assent with civil leer, And without sneering, teach the rest to sneer...
Page 284 - His gardens next your admiration call; On every side you look, behold the wall! No pleasing intricacies intervene, No artful wildness to perplex the scene ; Grove nods at grove, each alley has a brother, And half the platform just reflects the other.
Page 23 - 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) Expatiate free o'er all this scene of man; A mighty maze!
Page 34 - 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 97 - Praise ye him, sun and moon : Praise him, all ye stars of light. Praise him, ye heavens of heavens, And ye waters that be above the heavens. Let them praise the name of the LORD: For he commanded, and they were created.
Page 54 - All Nature is but art, unknown to thee All chance, direction, which thou canst not see; All discord, harmony not understood; All partial evil, universal good: And, spite of pride, in erring reason's spite, One truth is clear, Whatever is, is right.
Page 30 - 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 43 - 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?