The Works of Alexander Pope, المجلد 3J. F. Dove, St. John's Square, 1822 |
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... appear obvious ; that principles , maxims , or precepts , so written , both strike the reader more strongly at first , and are more easily retained by him af- terward : the other may seem odd , but is true . I und I could express them ...
... appear obvious ; that principles , maxims , or precepts , so written , both strike the reader more strongly at first , and are more easily retained by him af- terward : the other may seem odd , but is true . I und I could express them ...
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... appears the art of the poet it is even of use , perhaps , to choose a low subject . In this respect Virgil has the advantage over Lucretius ; the latter , with all his vigour aud sublimity of genius , could hardly satisfy and come up to ...
... appears the art of the poet it is even of use , perhaps , to choose a low subject . In this respect Virgil has the advantage over Lucretius ; the latter , with all his vigour aud sublimity of genius , could hardly satisfy and come up to ...
الصفحة 12
... appear if we were to undertake the unpleas- ing task of collecting all the passages which he has tortured and turned into meanings never dreamt of , or designed by the poet . Ver . 19 , 20. Of Man , what see we but his station here ...
... appear if we were to undertake the unpleas- ing task of collecting all the passages which he has tortured and turned into meanings never dreamt of , or designed by the poet . Ver . 19 , 20. Of Man , what see we but his station here ...
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... appears to be of the casual kind ; not something intended by the Maker of the world ( for all his preparations plainly tend towards good ) , but something which follows , without being in- tended , and that perhaps necessarily , from ...
... appears to be of the casual kind ; not something intended by the Maker of the world ( for all his preparations plainly tend towards good ) , but something which follows , without being in- tended , and that perhaps necessarily , from ...
الصفحة 25
... appears to be something in character and form , which all beings some way or other are framed to enjoy the evil , on the contrary , appears to be something which all beings some way or other are framed to avoid ; some by talons , others ...
... appears to be something in character and form , which all beings some way or other are framed to enjoy the evil , on the contrary , appears to be something which all beings some way or other are framed to avoid ; some by talons , others ...
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الصفحة 19 - 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.
الصفحة 165 - What conscience dictates to be done, Or warns me not to do, This teach me more than hell to shun, That, more than heav'n pursue. What blessings Thy free bounty gives, Let me not cast away; For God is paid when man receives, To enjoy is to obey.
الصفحة 21 - 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 166 - Let not this weak, unknowing hand Presume thy bolts to throw, And deal damnation round the land On each I judge thy foe. If I am right, thy grace impart, Still in the right to stay ; If I am wrong, O teach my heart To find that better way.
الصفحة 12 - 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? 20 Thro' worlds unnumber'd tho' the God be known, 'Tis ours to trace him only in our own.
الصفحة 22 - In Pride, in reas'ning Pride, our error lies; All quit their sphere, and rush into the skies. Pride still is aiming at the blest abodes, Men would be Angels, Angels would be Gods. Aspiring to be Gods, if Angels fell, Aspiring to be Angels, Men rebel: And who but wishes to invert the laws Of Order, sins against th
الصفحة 164 - To know but this, that Thou art good, And that myself am blind ; Yet gave me, in this dark estate, To see the good from ill ; And binding nature fast in fate, Left free the human will.
الصفحة 35 - What modes of sight betwixt each wide extreme, The mole's dim curtain, and the lynx's beam : Of smell, the headlong lioness between, And hound sagacious on the tainted green : Of hearing, from the life that fills the flood, To that which warbles through the vernal wood ? The spider's touch, how exquisitely fine ! Feels at each thread, and lives along the line : In the nice bee, what sense so subtly true From pois'nous herbs extracts the healing dew?
الصفحة 202 - 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.
الصفحة 211 - No Thought advances, but her Eddy Brain Whisks it about, and down it goes again. Full sixty years the World has been her Trade, The wisest Fool much Time has ever made. From loveless youth to unrespected age, No Passion gratify'd except her Rage.