Moral essaysJ. and P. Knapton, 1751 |
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الصفحة vii
... Fame : urge But Man , vain Man , in folly only wife , Rejects the Manna fent him from the Skies : With rapture hears corrupted Paffion's call , 45 Still proudly prone to mingle with the stall . As each deceitful fhadow tempts his view ...
... Fame : urge But Man , vain Man , in folly only wife , Rejects the Manna fent him from the Skies : With rapture hears corrupted Paffion's call , 45 Still proudly prone to mingle with the stall . As each deceitful fhadow tempts his view ...
الصفحة ix
... Fame the captiv'd heart is fold : Hence , blind to truth , relentlefs Cato dy'd ; Nought could fubdue his Virtue , but his Pride . Hence chafte Lucretia's Innocence betray'd Fell by that Honour which was meant its aid . Thus Virtue ...
... Fame the captiv'd heart is fold : Hence , blind to truth , relentlefs Cato dy'd ; Nought could fubdue his Virtue , but his Pride . Hence chafte Lucretia's Innocence betray'd Fell by that Honour which was meant its aid . Thus Virtue ...
الصفحة xiii
... Fame ! Fell Ravisher , from Innocence to tear That name , 180 than liberty , than life more dear ! Where shall thy baseness meet its just return , 185 Or what repay thy guilt , but endless scorn ! And know , immortal Truth shall mock ...
... Fame ! Fell Ravisher , from Innocence to tear That name , 180 than liberty , than life more dear ! Where shall thy baseness meet its just return , 185 Or what repay thy guilt , but endless scorn ! And know , immortal Truth shall mock ...
الصفحة xix
... Fame , e'er yet to Manhood known , And just to ev'ry virtue , but his own : Hears unftain'd CAM with generous pride proclaim A SAGE'S , CRITIC's , and a POET's name : Eeholds , where WIDCOMBE's happy hills ascend , Lach orphan'd VOL ...
... Fame , e'er yet to Manhood known , And just to ev'ry virtue , but his own : Hears unftain'd CAM with generous pride proclaim A SAGE'S , CRITIC's , and a POET's name : Eeholds , where WIDCOMBE's happy hills ascend , Lach orphan'd VOL ...
الصفحة xxvi
... fame ; And Genius rife , a Monument of shame ! 440 More happy France : immortal BOILEAU there Supported Genius with a Sage's care : Him with her love propitious SATIRE bleft , And breath'd her airs divine into his breast : Fancy and ...
... fame ; And Genius rife , a Monument of shame ! 440 More happy France : immortal BOILEAU there Supported Genius with a Sage's care : Him with her love propitious SATIRE bleft , And breath'd her airs divine into his breast : Fancy and ...
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الصفحة 82 - Let them praise the name of the Lord: for his name alone is excellent; his glory is above the earth and heaven.
الصفحة 109 - 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...
الصفحة 28 - Planets and suns run lawless through the sky ; Let ruling angels from their spheres be hurl'd, Being on being wreck'd, and world on world ; Heaven's whole foundations to their centre nod, And Nature trembles to the throne- of God. All this dread order break — for whom ? for thee ? Vile worm ! —oh madness ! pride ! impiety ! IX.
الصفحة 29 - The great directing mind of all ordains. All are but parts of one stupendous whole, Whose body Nature is, and God the soul ; That chang'd through all, and yet in all the same ; Great in the Earth, as in th...
الصفحة 150 - What conscience dictates to be done, Or warns me not to do, This teach me more than hell to shun, That more than heaven pursue.
الصفحة 12 - Lo, the poor Indian! whose untutor'd mind Sees God in clouds, or hears him in the wind; His soul, proud science never taught to stray Far as the solar walk, or milky way...
الصفحة 82 - 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.
الصفحة 67 - 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.
الصفحة 40 - 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...
الصفحة 27 - Were we to press, inferior might on ours; Or in the full creation leave a void, Where, one step broken, the great scale's destroy'd: From Nature's chain whatever link you strike, Tenth, or ten thousandth, breaks the chain alike. And, if each system in gradation roll Alike essential to th' amazing whole, The least confusion but in one, not all That system only, but the whole must fall.