Elegant poems. Pope's Essay on man, Blair's Grave, Gray's Elegy, Goldsmith's Traveller, and Goldsmith's Deserted village1814 |
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... toil , aspir'd to be the head ? What if the head , the eye , or ear repin'd To serve mere engines to the ruling Mind ? Just as absurd for any part to claim To be another , in this gen'ral frame : Just as absurd to mourn the tasks or ...
... toil , aspir'd to be the head ? What if the head , the eye , or ear repin'd To serve mere engines to the ruling Mind ? Just as absurd for any part to claim To be another , in this gen'ral frame : Just as absurd to mourn the tasks or ...
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... toil , the sage's indolence , The monk's humility , the hero's pride , All , all alike , find reason on their side . Th ' eternal art , educing good from ill , Grafts on this passion our best principle : ' Tis thus the mercury of man is ...
... toil , the sage's indolence , The monk's humility , the hero's pride , All , all alike , find reason on their side . Th ' eternal art , educing good from ill , Grafts on this passion our best principle : ' Tis thus the mercury of man is ...
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... court's propitious shine , Or deep with di'monds in the flaming mine ? Twin'd with the wreathes Parnassian laurels yield , Or reap'd in iron harvests of the field ? 10 Where grows toil , where grows it not ? —If ON MAN . 35.
... court's propitious shine , Or deep with di'monds in the flaming mine ? Twin'd with the wreathes Parnassian laurels yield , Or reap'd in iron harvests of the field ? 10 Where grows toil , where grows it not ? —If ON MAN . 35.
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Elegant poems. Where grows toil , where grows it not ? —If vain our We ought to blame the culture , not the soil . Fix'd to no spot is happiness sincere , ' Tis no where to be found , or ev'ry where ; ' Tis never to be bought , but ...
Elegant poems. Where grows toil , where grows it not ? —If vain our We ought to blame the culture , not the soil . Fix'd to no spot is happiness sincere , ' Tis no where to be found , or ev'ry where ; ' Tis never to be bought , but ...
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... toil surveys , And buries madmen in the heaps they raise . Know , all the good that individuals find , Or God and nature meant to mere mankind , Reason's whole pleasure , all the joys of sense , Lie in three words , Health , Peace , and ...
... toil surveys , And buries madmen in the heaps they raise . Know , all the good that individuals find , Or God and nature meant to mere mankind , Reason's whole pleasure , all the joys of sense , Lie in three words , Health , Peace , and ...
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alike Amidst beneath Blair blank verse bless'd blessing blest bliss blood boast breast breath charms climes creature dear death e'en e'er earth ease Elegy EPISTLE EPISTLE II eternal ev'n ev'ry fame fear fix'd flies fool form'd gen'ral giv'n grave hand happiness heart Heav'n honour hope hope and fear human instinct int'rest kings land laws learn'd looks lord luxury man's mankind mind monarch moral nature nature's ne'er never o'er OLIVER GOLDSMITH once pain passions plac'd Pleas'd pleasure poem poor pow'r pride proud reason reign rest rich rill rise Robert Blair round Self-love shade shame sire skies slave smiling society soul spread strength swain sweet SWEET AUBURN taught tell thee thine thing thou thro toil Twas tyrant vice village virtue weak wealth Whilst whole wise world unknown wretch yonder
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Page 88 - E'en in our ashes live their wonted fires. For thee, who, mindful of th' unhonour'd dead, Dost in these lines their artless tale relate; If chance, by lonely contemplation led, Some kindred spirit shall inquire thy fate — Haply some hoary-headed swain may say, ' Oft have we seen him at the peep of dawn Brushing with hasty steps the dews away To meet the sun upon the upland lawn.
Page 19 - 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!
Page 86 - Let not ambition mock their useful toil, Their homely joys, and destiny obscure; Nor grandeur hear with a disdainful smile The short and simple annals of the poor.
Page 114 - Beside yon straggling fence that skirts the way, With blossom'd furze unprofitably gay, There, in his noisy mansion, skill'd to rule, The village master taught his little school. A man severe he was, and stern to view; I knew him well, and every truant knew...
Page 18 - 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.
Page 112 - tis hard to combat, learns to fly! For him no wretches, born to work and weep, Explore the mine, or tempt the dangerous deep; No surly porter stands in guilty state, To spurn imploring famine from the gate...
Page 14 - 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
Page 115 - The chest contrived a double debt to pay, A bed by night, a chest of drawers by day...
Page 118 - And, pinch'd with cold, and shrinking from the shower, With heavy heart deplores that luckless hour, When idly first, ambitious of the town, She left her wheel and robes of country brown.
Page 85 - And all the air a solemn stillness holds, Save where the beetle wheels his droning flight...