The works of Alexander Pope. With a selection of explanatory notes, and the account of his life by dr. Johnson, Band 31812 |
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... Happiness THE UNIVERSAL PRAYER MORAL ESSAYS : EPISTLE I. Of the Knowledge and Characters of MEN · EPISTLE II . Of the Characters of WOMEN EPISTLE III . Of the Use of RICHES EPISTLE IV . Of the Use of RICHES EPISTLE V. To Mr.Addison ...
... Happiness THE UNIVERSAL PRAYER MORAL ESSAYS : EPISTLE I. Of the Knowledge and Characters of MEN · EPISTLE II . Of the Characters of WOMEN EPISTLE III . Of the Use of RICHES EPISTLE IV . Of the Use of RICHES EPISTLE V. To Mr.Addison ...
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... happiness in the present depends , ver . 77 , & c . IV . The pride of aiming at more knowledge , and pretending to more perfection , the cause of Man's error and misery . The impiety of putting himself in the place of God , and judging ...
... happiness in the present depends , ver . 77 , & c . IV . The pride of aiming at more knowledge , and pretending to more perfection , the cause of Man's error and misery . The impiety of putting himself in the place of God , and judging ...
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... happier island in the wat'ry waste , Where slaves once more their native land behold , No fiends torment , no Christians thirst for gold . To Be , contents his natural desire , He asks no angel's wing , no seraph's fire ; Ver . 93. 94 ...
... happier island in the wat'ry waste , Where slaves once more their native land behold , No fiends torment , no Christians thirst for gold . To Be , contents his natural desire , He asks no angel's wing , no seraph's fire ; Ver . 93. 94 ...
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... happiness , 4 145 150 Then nature deviates ; and can man do less ? As much that end a constant course requires Of show'rs and sunshine , as of man's desires ; As much eternal springs and cloudless skies , As men for ever temp'rate ...
... happiness , 4 145 150 Then nature deviates ; and can man do less ? As much that end a constant course requires Of show'rs and sunshine , as of man's desires ; As much eternal springs and cloudless skies , As men for ever temp'rate ...
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... whose ten pound the county twenty pays . The thief damns judges , and the knaves of state ; And dying , mourns small villains hang'd by great . 225 What What happier natures shrink at with affright , The hard 36 EP . II . ESSAY ON MAN .
... whose ten pound the county twenty pays . The thief damns judges , and the knaves of state ; And dying , mourns small villains hang'd by great . 225 What What happier natures shrink at with affright , The hard 36 EP . II . ESSAY ON MAN .
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Balaam Bishop Bishop of Marseilles blessing blest bliss Cæsar charms Chartres court death divine Duke Dunciad e'er Earl ears ease EPISTLE Ev'n ev'ry eyes fame fate folly fool former editions give glory gold grace grave happiness hate heart Heav'n honest honour Horace int'rest king knave lady laugh learn'd learned less than angels live Lord Lord Bathurst Lord Bolingbroke Lord Chamberlain Lord Hervey lov'd mankind mighty mind moral muse nature nature's ne'er never numbers o'er parterre passion pleas'd pleasure poet poor Pope pow'r praise pride proud Queen reason rhyme rich rise rules Sappho satire SATIRE IV scarce Self-love sense slave soul Stephen Duck taste tell thee things thou thousand thro truth Twas verse vice virtue wealth whate'er Whig whole whore wife wise wretched write
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Seite 13 - 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...
Seite 18 - Where slaves once more their native land behold, No fiends torment, no Christians thirst for gold. To Be, contents his natural desire, He asks no Angel's wing, no Seraph's fire; But thinks, admitted to that equal sky, His faithful dog shall bear him company.
Seite 18 - 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
Seite 16 - Heav'n from all creatures hides the book of Fate, All but the page prescrib'd, 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? Pleas'd to the last, he crops the flow'ry food, And licks the hand just rais'd to shed his blood.
Seite 17 - Lo, the poor Indian ! whose untutored 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...
Seite 244 - True ease in writing comes from art, not chance, As those move easiest who have learn'd to dance.
Seite 131 - Or in proud falls magnificently lost, But clear and artless, pouring through the plain Health to the sick, and solace to the swain. Whose causeway parts the vale with shady rows? Whose seats the weary traveller repose ? Who taught that heaven-directed spire to rise ?
Seite 24 - Great in the earth as in the ethereal frame, 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...
Seite 164 - twas when he knew no better. Dare you refuse him? Curll invites to dine, He'll write a. Journal, or he'll turn divine.' Bless me ! a packet - ' 'Tis a stranger sues, A Virgin Tragedy, an Orphan Muse.' If I dislike it, 'Furies, death and rage!' If I approve, 'Commend it to the stage.
Seite 67 - Honour and shame from no condition rise ; Act well your part, there all the honour lies.