An essay on man [by A. Pope]. With some humourous verses on the death of dean Swift, written by himselfPrinted, & sold by the Booksellers of London & Westminster, 1736 - 32 من الصفحات |
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... Thou too muft perish , when thy Life is o'er . To each unthinking Being Heav'n , a Friend , Gives not the useless Knowledge of its End ; To Man imparts it ; but with fuch a View , As while he dreads it , makes him hope it too . The Hour ...
... Thou too muft perish , when thy Life is o'er . To each unthinking Being Heav'n , a Friend , Gives not the useless Knowledge of its End ; To Man imparts it ; but with fuch a View , As while he dreads it , makes him hope it too . The Hour ...
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... thou deign'st to grow ? Fair - opening to fome Courts propitious fhine , Or deep with Diamonds in the flaming Mine , Twin'd with the Wreaths Parnaffian Laurels yeild , Or reap'd in Iron Harvests of the Field ? 5 10 Where grows --- where ...
... thou deign'st to grow ? Fair - opening to fome Courts propitious fhine , Or deep with Diamonds in the flaming Mine , Twin'd with the Wreaths Parnaffian Laurels yeild , Or reap'd in Iron Harvests of the Field ? 5 10 Where grows --- where ...
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... thou may'ft be , by Kings , or Whores of Kings . 196 Thy boasted Blood , a thousand Years or fo , May from Lucretia to Lucretia flow : But by your Father's Worth , if yours you rate , Count me those only who are good and great . Go ! if ...
... thou may'ft be , by Kings , or Whores of Kings . 196 Thy boasted Blood , a thousand Years or fo , May from Lucretia to Lucretia flow : But by your Father's Worth , if yours you rate , Count me those only who are good and great . Go ! if ...
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... thou be the Man to whom they fall ? To figh for Ribbans , if thou art fo filly , 270 275 Mark how they grace Lord Umbra , or Sir Billy , Is yellow Dirt the Paffion of thy Life ? Look but on Gripus , or on Gripus Wife . If Parts allure ...
... thou be the Man to whom they fall ? To figh for Ribbans , if thou art fo filly , 270 275 Mark how they grace Lord Umbra , or Sir Billy , Is yellow Dirt the Paffion of thy Life ? Look but on Gripus , or on Gripus Wife . If Parts allure ...
الصفحة 32
... Thou wert my Guide , Philofopher , and Friend ? That urg'd by thee , I turn'd the tuneful Art 375 From Sounds to Things , from Fancy to the Heart : 380 For Wit's falfe Mirror held up Nature's Light : Shew'd erring Pride Whatever Is , is ...
... Thou wert my Guide , Philofopher , and Friend ? That urg'd by thee , I turn'd the tuneful Art 375 From Sounds to Things , from Fancy to the Heart : 380 For Wit's falfe Mirror held up Nature's Light : Shew'd erring Pride Whatever Is , is ...
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الصفحة 9 - With too much knowledge for the Sceptic side, 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 reas'ning but to err...
الصفحة 30 - The only point where human bliss stands still, And tastes the good without the fall to ill ; Where only merit...
الصفحة 10 - Created half to rise, and half to fall: Great lord of all things, yet a prey to all; Sole judge of truth, in endless error hurl'd; The glory jest, and riddle of the world!
الصفحة 27 - 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 prunella.
الصفحة 28 - Who wickedly is wise, or madly brave, Is but the more a fool, the more a knave.
الصفحة 2 - 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 ? Thro' worlds unnumber'd tho' the God be known, "Tis ours to trace him only in our own.
الصفحة 10 - Man, but for that, no action could attend, And, but for this, were active to no end: Fix'd like a plant on his peculiar spot, To draw nutrition, propagate, and rot: Or, meteor-like, flame lawless through the void, Destroying others, by himself destroy'd.
الصفحة 27 - The friar hooded, and the monarch crown'd. " What differ more (you cry) than crown and cowl !" I'll tell you, friend ! a wise man and a fool.
الصفحة 18 - Joy tunes his voice, joy elevates his wings. Is it for thee the linnet pours his throat ? Loves of his own and raptures swell the note.
الصفحة 1 - 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.