An Essay on Man: In Four Epistles to H. St. John, Lord Bolingbroke, to which is Added The Universal Prayer |
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... Feels at each thread , 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 ...
... Feels at each thread , 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 ...
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... feel the rage , or never own ; What happier natures shrink at with affright , The hard inhabitant contends is right . 230 VI . Virtuous and vicious every man must be , Few in th ' extreme , but all in the degree ; The rogue and fool by ...
... feel the rage , or never own ; What happier natures shrink at with affright , The hard inhabitant contends is right . 230 VI . Virtuous and vicious every man must be , Few in th ' extreme , but all in the degree ; The rogue and fool by ...
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... feels the pain , Than favour'd man by touch ethereal slain : The creature had his feast of life before ; Thou too must perish when thy feast is o'er . 70 To each unthinking being , Heav'n , a friend , Gives not the useless knowledge of ...
... feels the pain , Than favour'd man by touch ethereal slain : The creature had his feast of life before ; Thou too must perish when thy feast is o'er . 70 To each unthinking being , Heav'n , a friend , Gives not the useless knowledge of ...
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... feel , what others think , All pleasures sicken , and all glories sink : 40 45 Each has his share ; and who would more obtain , Shall find , the pleasure pays not half the pain . ORDER is Heaven's first law ; and this confest , Some are ...
... feel , what others think , All pleasures sicken , and all glories sink : 40 45 Each has his share ; and who would more obtain , Shall find , the pleasure pays not half the pain . ORDER is Heaven's first law ; and this confest , Some are ...
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... feel Heaven's blessing , or its rod , This cries , there is , and that , there is no God . What shocks one part will edify the rest , Nor with one system can they all be blest ; The very best will variously incline , 140 And what ...
... feel Heaven's blessing , or its rod , This cries , there is , and that , there is no God . What shocks one part will edify the rest , Nor with one system can they all be blest ; The very best will variously incline , 140 And what ...
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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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Page 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...
Page 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.
Page 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.
Page 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.
Page 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!
Page 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...
Page 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.
Page 46 - Honour and shame from no condition rise ; Act well your part, there all the honour lies.
Page 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.
Page 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...