An Essay on Man: In Four Epistles to H. St. John, Lord Bolingbroke, to which is Added The Universal PrayerS. Andrus, 1824 - 67 من الصفحات |
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الصفحة 17
... lives along the line : In the nice bee , what sense so subtly true , From pois'nous herbs extracts the healing dew ! How instinct varies in the grov'ling swine , Compar'd , half - reas'ning elephant , with thine ! " Twixt that and ...
... lives along the line : In the nice bee , what sense so subtly true , From pois'nous herbs extracts the healing dew ! How instinct varies in the grov'ling swine , Compar'd , half - reas'ning elephant , with thine ! " Twixt that and ...
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... Lives through all life , extends through all extent ; Spreads undivided , operates unspent ; Breathes in our soul , informs our mortal part , 275 As full , as perfect , in a hair as heart ; As full , as perfect , in vile man that mourns ...
... Lives through all life , extends through all extent ; Spreads undivided , operates unspent ; Breathes in our soul , informs our mortal part , 275 As full , as perfect , in a hair as heart ; As full , as perfect , in vile man that mourns ...
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... Lives on the labours of this lord of all . Know , nature's children all divide her care ; The fur that warms a monarch , warm'd a bear . While man exclaims , " See all things for my use " See man for mine ? " replies a pamper'd goose ...
... Lives on the labours of this lord of all . Know , nature's children all divide her care ; The fur that warms a monarch , warm'd a bear . While man exclaims , " See all things for my use " See man for mine ? " replies a pamper'd goose ...
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... come ! Of half that live , the butcher , and the tomb ; Who , foe to nature , hears the gen'ral groan , Murders their species , and betrays his own . 160 But just disease to luxury succeeds , And every death 34 ESSAY ON MAN .
... come ! Of half that live , the butcher , and the tomb ; Who , foe to nature , hears the gen'ral groan , Murders their species , and betrays his own . 160 But just disease to luxury succeeds , And every death 34 ESSAY ON MAN .
الصفحة 39
... lives ; The strength he gains is from th ' embrace he gives . On their own axis as the planets run , Yet make at once their circle round the sun ; So two consistent motions acts the soul ; 315 And one regards itself , and one the whole ...
... lives ; The strength he gains is from th ' embrace he gives . On their own axis as the planets run , Yet make at once their circle round the sun ; So two consistent motions acts the soul ; 315 And one regards itself , and one the whole ...
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acts the soul alike angels ARGUMENT OF EPISTLE beast blessing blest blind bliss breath Catiline chain charity comets confest creature death diff'rence earth ease EPISTLE IV Essay eternal ethereal Ev'n ev'ry faith fame father fear fix'd folly fool form'd forms gen'ral giv'n gives gods happiness heart Heav'n honour hope human imperfect indolent instinct int'rest justice kings knave Learn learn'd lives Lord man's mankind mind mix'd monarch moral nature nature's nature's law never o'er O'erlook'd pain passion peace perfect plac'd planets pleasure poet Pope pow'rs pride principle proper Racine reas'ning religion rill rise seen double self-love and social sense seraph sev'ral shade sire skies Socrates Sonnet sphere taught tempests thee thine things thou toil truth Turenne Twas tyrant Universal Prayer virtue's weak Whate'er whole wise
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الصفحة 10 - AWAKE, my St John ! leave all meaner things To low ambition, and the pride of kings. Let us (since life can little more supply Than just to look about us and to die...
الصفحة 46 - 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 prunello.
الصفحة 17 - 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.
الصفحة 50 - Yet not to earth's contracted span Thy goodness let me bound, Or think Thee Lord alone of man. When thousand worlds are round.
الصفحة 40 - Some place the bliss in action, some in ease, Those call it pleasure, and contentment these: Some sunk to beasts, find pleasure end in pain ; Some swell'd to gods, confess e'en virtue vain!
الصفحة 40 - Twin'd with the wreaths 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 50 - Teach me to feel another's woe, To hide the fault I see; That mercy I to others show, That mercy show to me.
الصفحة 46 - Honour and shame from no condition rise ; Act well your part, there all the honour lies.
الصفحة 51 - HAPPY the man whose wish and care A few paternal acres bound, Content to breathe his native air In his own ground. Whose herds with milk, whose fields with bread, Whose flocks supply him with attire ; Whose trees in summer yield him shade, In winter, fire.
الصفحة 48 - Correct with spirit, eloquent with ease, Intent to reason, or polite to please. O ! while along the stream of Time thy name Expanded flies, and gathers all its fame, Say, shall my little bark attendant sail, Pursue the triumph, and partake the gale...