An essay on man [by A. Pope]. With some humourous verses on the death of dean Swift, written by himself |
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... Better for Us , perhaps , it might appear , Were there all Harmony , all Virtue here ; That never Air or Ocean felt the Wind ; That never Paffion difcompos'd the Mind . But all fubfifts by Elemental Strife ; And Paffions are the ...
... Better for Us , perhaps , it might appear , Were there all Harmony , all Virtue here ; That never Air or Ocean felt the Wind ; That never Paffion difcompos'd the Mind . But all fubfifts by Elemental Strife ; And Paffions are the ...
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... Better , or of Worfe . Oh , Sons of Earth ! attempt ye ftill to rife By Mountains pil'd on Mountains , to the Skies ? Heav'n ftill with Laughter the vain Toil furveys , And buries Madmen in the Heaps they raise . 50 60 65 70 75 Know ...
... Better , or of Worfe . Oh , Sons of Earth ! attempt ye ftill to rife By Mountains pil'd on Mountains , to the Skies ? Heav'n ftill with Laughter the vain Toil furveys , And buries Madmen in the Heaps they raise . 50 60 65 70 75 Know ...
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... better fhall we have ? A Kingdom of the Just then let it be ; But first confider how those Just agree . The Good muft merit God's peculiar Care ; But who , but God , can tell us who they are ? One thinks on Calvin God's own Spirit fell ...
... better fhall we have ? A Kingdom of the Just then let it be ; But first confider how those Just agree . The Good muft merit God's peculiar Care ; But who , but God , can tell us who they are ? One thinks on Calvin God's own Spirit fell ...
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... better would you fix , And give Humility a Coach and Six ¿ Juftice a Conq'rors Sword , or Truth a Gown , Or publick Spirit , its great Cure , a Crown ; Rewards that either would to Virtue bring No Joy , or be deftructive of the Thing ...
... better would you fix , And give Humility a Coach and Six ¿ Juftice a Conq'rors Sword , or Truth a Gown , Or publick Spirit , its great Cure , a Crown ; Rewards that either would to Virtue bring No Joy , or be deftructive of the Thing ...
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... better were refign'd , Is hung on high , to poifon half Mankind . All Fame is foreign , but of true Desert , Plays round the Head , but comes not to the Heart . One One felf - approving Hour whole Years out - weighs 28 Epift . IV ...
... better were refign'd , Is hung on high , to poifon half Mankind . All Fame is foreign , but of true Desert , Plays round the Head , but comes not to the Heart . One One felf - approving Hour whole Years out - weighs 28 Epift . IV ...
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abfurd Afpiring againſt alike Beaſt Becauſe beft Behold beſt Bleffing blefs'd bleft Blifs Bliſs Caufe Cauſe Courſe Creature Dean DEAN SWIFT Death Defire deſtroy diff'rent dy'd e'er Eafe Earth Eaſe EPISTLE eternal Ev'n ev'ry fame fave Fear ferves fhall fhould fince firft firſt fix'd foar fome Fool form'd Friend ftill fuch fupply gen'ral giv'n gives Gole Gout Happineſs happy Heav'n himſelf Hope Inftinct Int'reft Itfelf juft Juftice Kings Knave Laft laſt Learn'd lefs leſs Love Man's Mankind Mind moft moſt muft muſt Nature Nature's never o'er Paffion Pain pleaſe Pleaſure Pow'r prefent Pride Profe Profpect raiſe Reafon reft reſtrain rife riſe Satyrs Self-Love Senfe ſerve ſhall Skreen Soul ſtill Syſtem taught thee thefe theſe thine Things thofe thoſe thou thouſand thro Tyrant underſtood Univerſe Vice Virtue Wants Weakneſs Whate'er whofe Whole whoſe wife Wiſdom worfe World
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Page 9 - 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 30 - The only point where human bliss stands still, And tastes the good without the fall to ill ; Where only merit...
Page 10 - 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 27 - 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 prunella.
Page 28 - Who wickedly is wise, or madly brave, Is but the more a fool, the more a knave.
Page 2 - Say first, of God above, or man below, What can we reason, but from what we know ? Of man, what see we but his station here, From which to reason, or to which refer ? Thro' worlds unnumber'd tho' the God be known, "Tis ours to trace him only in our own.
Page 10 - Man, but for that, no action could attend, And, but for this, were active to no end: Fix'd like a plant on his peculiar spot, To draw nutrition, propagate, and rot: Or, meteor-like, flame lawless through the void, Destroying others, by himself destroy'd.
Page 27 - The friar hooded, and the monarch crown'd. " What differ more (you cry) than crown and cowl !" I'll tell you, friend ! a wise man and a fool.
Page 18 - 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 1 - The latent tracts, the giddy heights, explore Of all who blindly creep, or sightless soar; Eye Nature's walks, shoot Folly as it flies, And catch the manners living as they rise; Laugh where we must, be candid where we can; But vindicate the ways of God to man.