An Essay on Man: In Four Epistles to H. St. John, Lord Bolingbroke, to which is Added The Universal Prayer |
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... 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 pains The great directing ...
... 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 pains The great directing ...
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... , And quitting sense , call imitating God ; As eastern priests in giddy circles run , And turn their heads to imitate the sun . Go , teach Eternal Wisdom how to rule- 25 21 23 19 30 ESSAY ON MAN . Then drop 20 ESSAY ON MAN .
... , And quitting sense , call imitating God ; As eastern priests in giddy circles run , And turn their heads to imitate the sun . Go , teach Eternal Wisdom how to rule- 25 21 23 19 30 ESSAY ON MAN . Then drop 20 ESSAY ON MAN .
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... head , As the mind opens , and its functions spread , Imagination plies her dang'rous art , And pours it all upon the peccant part . Nature its mother , habit is its nurse ; 145 Wit , spirit , faculties , but make it worse ; Reason ...
... head , As the mind opens , and its functions spread , Imagination plies her dang'rous art , And pours it all upon the peccant part . Nature its mother , habit is its nurse ; 145 Wit , spirit , faculties , but make it worse ; Reason ...
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... head , or gen'rous mind , Follower of God , or friend of human kind , Poet or patriot , rose but to restore 285 The faith and moral nature gave before ; Relum'd her ancient light , not kindled new ; If not God's image , yet his shadow ...
... head , or gen'rous mind , Follower of God , or friend of human kind , Poet or patriot , rose but to restore 285 The faith and moral nature gave before ; Relum'd her ancient light , not kindled new ; If not God's image , yet his shadow ...
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... heads conceive ; Obvious her goods , in no extreme they dwell ; There needs but thinking right , and meaning well ; And , mourn our various portions as we please , Equal is common sense , and common ease . 30 30 Remember , man , " the ...
... heads conceive ; Obvious her goods , in no extreme they dwell ; There needs but thinking right , and meaning well ; And , mourn our various portions as we please , Equal is common sense , and common ease . 30 30 Remember , man , " the ...
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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...