The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope: With His Last Corrections, Additions and Improvements, Volume 3T. & G. Palmer, 1804 - 754 pages |
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... how of use , How all to good , to happiness , conduce ; Saw my own weakness , thy superior pow'r , And still the more I read , admire the more . 25 28 R. D. BY A LADY . FATHER of verse ! indulge an RECOMMENDATORY POEMS . 11.
... how of use , How all to good , to happiness , conduce ; Saw my own weakness , thy superior pow'r , And still the more I read , admire the more . 25 28 R. D. BY A LADY . FATHER of verse ! indulge an RECOMMENDATORY POEMS . 11.
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... happiness to love , adore , obey ; To praise him for each gracious boon bestow'd , For this thy Work , for ev'ry lesser good ; With prostrate hearts before his throne to fall , And own the great Creator all in all . The Muse which ...
... happiness to love , adore , obey ; To praise him for each gracious boon bestow'd , For this thy Work , for ev'ry lesser good ; With prostrate hearts before his throne to fall , And own the great Creator all in all . The Muse which ...
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... happier island in the wat❜ry waste , Where slaves once more their native land behold , No fiends torment , no Christians thirst for gold . To be content's his natural desire ; He asks no angel's wing , no seraph's fire ; But thinks ...
... happier island in the wat❜ry waste , Where slaves once more their native land behold , No fiends torment , no Christians thirst for gold . To be content's his natural desire ; He asks no angel's wing , no seraph's fire ; But thinks ...
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... happiness , 150 Then nature deviates ; and can Man do less ? As much that end a constant course requires Of show'rs and sunshine as of Man's desires ; As much eternal springs and cloudless skies , As men for ever tempʼrate , calm , and ...
... happiness , 150 Then nature deviates ; and can Man do less ? As much that end a constant course requires Of show'rs and sunshine as of Man's desires ; As much eternal springs and cloudless skies , As men for ever tempʼrate , calm , and ...
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... happier natures shrink at with affright , The hard inhabitant contends is right . Virtuous and vicious ev'ry man must be , Few in th ' extreme , but all in the degree : The rogue and fool by fits is fair and wise , And ev❜n the best by ...
... happier natures shrink at with affright , The hard inhabitant contends is right . Virtuous and vicious ev'ry man must be , Few in th ' extreme , but all in the degree : The rogue and fool by fits is fair and wise , And ev❜n the best by ...
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Adrastus Argive Argos Balaam bear beauty Behold bids bless'd blessing blest bliss breast Cadmus Cæsar charms clouds Cocytus confest creature crown'd dæmon diff'rent divine dreadful Dunciad earth Epistles Essay Eteocles eternal ev'n ev'ry eyes fair fame fate father fear feast fix'd flow'ry fool form'd fury gen'rous give gods gold grace ground happiness hate heart Heav'n honour int'rest iron harvest Jove king knave Laius learn'd Lord Man's mankind mind monarch mortal Muse Nature Nature's never nymph o'er parterre Phoebus PHRYNE plain Pleas'd pleasure Polynices pow'r pride Procris proud race rage rays realms reason reign Riches rise ruling passion Sappho self-love shade shine sire skies soul taste taught temples Theban Thebes thee thine things thou thro throne Tisiphone toil tow'rs trembling Twas Tydeus tyrant Vertumnus vice virtue wand'ring weak whole wise wood wretched youth
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Page 33 - 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 36 - 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 ; In doubt to deem himself a god, or beast ; In doubt his mind or body to prefer...
Page 36 - 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 72 - Who wickedly is wise, or madly brave, Is but the more a fool, the more a knave. Who noble ends by noble means obtains, Or failing, smiles in exile or in chains, Like good Aurelius let him reign, or bleed Like Socrates, that man is great indeed. What's fame? a fancied life in others' breath, A thing beyond us, ev'n before our death.
Page 64 - OH happiness ! our being's end and aim ! Good, pleasure, ease, content ? whate'er thy name : That something still which prompts th' eternal sigh, For which we bear to live, or dare to die, Which still so near us, yet beyond us lies, O'er-look'd, seen double, by the fool, and wise.
Page 46 - Pleased with a rattle, tickled with a straw: Some livelier plaything gives his youth delight, A little louder, but as empty quite...
Page 33 - That, chang'd thro' all, and yet in all the same ; Great in the earth, as in th' ethereal frame ; Warms in the sun, refreshes in the breeze, Glows in the stars, and blossoms in the trees, Lives thro
Page 102 - twould a Saint provoke, (Were the last words that poor Narcissa spoke) No, let a charming Chintz, and Brussels lace Wrap my cold limbs, and shade my lifeless face : One would not, sure, be frightful when one's dead — «<• And— Betty— give this Cheek a little Red.
Page 60 - For forms of government let fools contest: Whate'er is best administer'd is best...
Page 32 - See through this air, this ocean, and this earth, All matter quick, and bursting into birth! Above, how high progressive life may go ! Around, how wide ! how deep extend below ! Vast chain of being! which from God began; Natures 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...