An Essay on Man: In Four Epistles to H. St. John, Lord BolingbrokeH. Benton, 1824 - 48 من الصفحات |
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الصفحة 11
... earth , why oaks are made Taller or stronger than the weeds they shade ? Or ask of yonder argent fields above , Why Jove's satellites are less than Jove ? Of systems possible , if ' tis confest That wisdom infinite must form the best ...
... earth , why oaks are made Taller or stronger than the weeds they shade ? Or ask of yonder argent fields above , Why Jove's satellites are less than Jove ? Of systems possible , if ' tis confest That wisdom infinite must form the best ...
الصفحة 14
... Earth for whose use ? Pride answers , " Tis for mine : " For me kind Nature wakes her genial power , " Suckles each herb , and spreads out every flower ; " Annual for me , the grape , the rose renew " The juice nectareous , and the ...
... Earth for whose use ? Pride answers , " Tis for mine : " For me kind Nature wakes her genial power , " Suckles each herb , and spreads out every flower ; " Annual for me , the grape , the rose renew " The juice nectareous , and the ...
الصفحة 17
... earth , All matter quick , and bursting into birth . Above , how high progressive life may go ! Around , how wide ! how deep extend below ! 235 Vast chain of being which from God began , Nature's 2 * ESSAY ON MAN . 17 Alike in what it ...
... earth , All matter quick , and bursting into birth . Above , how high progressive life may go ! Around , how wide ! how deep extend below ! 235 Vast chain of being which from God began , Nature's 2 * ESSAY ON MAN . 17 Alike in what it ...
الصفحة 18
... earth unbalanc'd from her orbit fly , Planets and suns run lawless through the sky ; Let ruling angels from their spheres he hurl'd , Being on being wreck'd , and world on world ; Heav'n's whole foundations to their centre nod , 250 255 ...
... earth unbalanc'd from her orbit fly , Planets and suns run lawless through the sky ; Let ruling angels from their spheres he hurl'd , Being on being wreck'd , and world on world ; Heav'n's whole foundations to their centre nod , 250 255 ...
الصفحة 19
... earth , as in th ' ethereal frame ; 270 Warms in the sun , refreshes in the breeze , Glows in the stars , and blossoms in the trees ; Lives through all life , extends through all extent ; Spreads undivided , operates unspent ; Breathes ...
... earth , as in th ' ethereal frame ; 270 Warms in the sun , refreshes in the breeze , Glows in the stars , and blossoms in the trees ; Lives through all life , extends through all extent ; Spreads undivided , operates unspent ; Breathes ...
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acts the soul ALEXANDER POPE alike angels ARGUMENT OF EPISTLE beast bless'd blessing blest blind bliss breath Catiline cause chain 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 pain passion peace perfect plac'd planets Pleas'd pleasure poet Pope pow'rs pride principle proper religion rill rise seen double self-love and social sense seraph sev'ral sire skies Socrates sphere taught tempests thee thine things thou toil truth Turenne Twas tyrant virtue's weak Whate'er whole wise YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY
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الصفحة 19 - Lives through all life, extends through all extent, Spreads undivided, operates unspent : Breathes in our soul, informs our mortal part, As full, as perfect, in a hair as heart; As full, as perfect, in vile man that mourns, As the rapt seraph that adores and burns : To him no high, no low, no great, no small ; He fills, he bounds, connects, and equals all.
الصفحة 20 - 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 53 - 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; T
الصفحة 12 - Heaven from all creatures hides the book of Fate, All but the page prescribed, their present state: From brutes what men, from men what spirits know: Or who could suffer being here below? The lamb thy riot dooms to bleed to-day, Had he thy reason, would he skip and play? Pleased to the last, he crops the flowery food, And licks the hand just raised to shed his blood.
الصفحة 10 - 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.
الصفحة 13 - 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 13 - Hope humbly then; with trembling pinions soar; Wait the great teacher Death; and God adore. What future bliss, he gives not thee to know, But gives that Hope to be thy blessing now.
الصفحة 54 - 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 54 - Let not this weak, unknowing hand Presume Thy bolts to throw, And deal damnation round the land, On each I judge Thy foe.
الصفحة 56 - Hark! they whisper; Angels say, Sister Spirit, come away. What is this absorbs me quite? Steals my senses, shuts my sight, Drowns my spirits, draws my breath?