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... taught to ftray Far as the Solar walk , or Milky way : Yet fimple Nature to his hope has giv'n Behind the cloud - topt hill , an humbler heav'n , Some fafer world , in depht of woods embrac'd , Some happier Island in the watry waste ...
... taught to ftray Far as the Solar walk , or Milky way : Yet fimple Nature to his hope has giv'n Behind the cloud - topt hill , an humbler heav'n , Some fafer world , in depht of woods embrac'd , Some happier Island in the watry waste ...
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... Taught half by reafon , half by mere decay , To welcome death , and calmly pass away . WHATE'ER the paffion , knowledge , fame , or pelf , 245 250 Not one will change his neighbour with himself . The learn'd is happy , nature to explore ...
... Taught half by reafon , half by mere decay , To welcome death , and calmly pass away . WHATE'ER the paffion , knowledge , fame , or pelf , 245 250 Not one will change his neighbour with himself . The learn'd is happy , nature to explore ...
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... taught the nations of the field and flood , To Shun their poifon , and to chufe their food ? Prefcient , the tydes or tempefts to withstand , Build on the wave , or arch beneath the fand ? Who made the Spider parallels defign , Sure as ...
... taught the nations of the field and flood , To Shun their poifon , and to chufe their food ? Prefcient , the tydes or tempefts to withstand , Build on the wave , or arch beneath the fand ? Who made the Spider parallels defign , Sure as ...
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... Taught to command the fire , controul the flood , Draw forth the monsters of th ' Abyss profound , Or fetch th ' aerial eagle to the ground . Till drooping , fick'ning , dying , they began Whom they rever'd as God , to mourn as man ...
... Taught to command the fire , controul the flood , Draw forth the monsters of th ' Abyss profound , Or fetch th ' aerial eagle to the ground . Till drooping , fick'ning , dying , they began Whom they rever'd as God , to mourn as man ...
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... taught fouls enflav'd , and realms undone , Th ' enormous faith of many made for one ? That proud exception to all nature's laws , T'inverth the world , and counterwork its caufe ?. Force first made conqueft , and that conqueft , law ...
... taught fouls enflav'd , and realms undone , Th ' enormous faith of many made for one ? That proud exception to all nature's laws , T'inverth the world , and counterwork its caufe ?. Force first made conqueft , and that conqueft , law ...
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Page 30 - 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; In doubt to deem himself a God or Beast; In doubt his mind or body to prefer; Born but to die, and reas'ning but to err...
Page 9 - 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 25 - 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 97 - 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 57 - Know, Nature's children all divide her care; The fur that warms a monarch warm'da bear. While man exclaims, "See all things for my use!
Page 49 - The learn'd is happy nature to explore, The fool is happy that he knows no more ; The rich is happy in the plenty given, The poor contents him with the care of Heaven.
Page 82 - 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 30 - Created half to rise, and half to fall: Great lord of all things, yet a prey to all; Sole judge of truth, in endless error hurl'd; The glory jest, and riddle of the world!
Page 54 - 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.
Page 46 - Ask where's the North? at York, 'tis on the Tweed; In Scotland, at the Orcades ; and there, At Greenland, Zembla, or the Lord knows where.