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Page 128
... fate . Fate and the lots of mankind are discussed again at the opening of Book IV , an elo- quent passage well translated by Creech ( where , incidentally , Manilius comes nearest to expounding the Stoic ethic of endur- ance ) : Why ...
... fate . Fate and the lots of mankind are discussed again at the opening of Book IV , an elo- quent passage well translated by Creech ( where , incidentally , Manilius comes nearest to expounding the Stoic ethic of endur- ance ) : Why ...
Page 129
... Fate comes down , ( Few Stars are Regal , and design a Crown ) What make a Wit , a Knave , a Saint , or Dunce , Are hudled then together , and fixt at once . The Ills that are ordain'd we must endure , From not Decreed how fatally ...
... Fate comes down , ( Few Stars are Regal , and design a Crown ) What make a Wit , a Knave , a Saint , or Dunce , Are hudled then together , and fixt at once . The Ills that are ordain'd we must endure , From not Decreed how fatally ...
Page 130
... Fate denies Rewards to Vertue , and must plead for Vice : Absurd ; for who less hates a Poysonous Weed Because ' tis bred from Necessary Seed ? Or who loves Corn the less ; who hates the Vine Because by Nature rais'd , and not Design ...
... Fate denies Rewards to Vertue , and must plead for Vice : Absurd ; for who less hates a Poysonous Weed Because ' tis bred from Necessary Seed ? Or who loves Corn the less ; who hates the Vine Because by Nature rais'd , and not Design ...
Contents
The Rape of a Myth | 7 |
The Wild Heap and the Ordered Frame | 33 |
Manilius Creech and An Essay on Man | 105 |
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