An Essay on Man: In Four Epistles to H. St. John, Lord Bolingbroke, to which is Added The Universal Prayer |
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... 'd , their present state : From brutes what men , from men what spirits know ; Or who could suffer being here below ? 80 The lamb thy riot dooms to bleed to - day , he thy reason would he skip and play ? as'd 12 ESSAY ON MAN .
... 'd , their present state : From brutes what men , from men what spirits know ; Or who could suffer being here below ? 80 The lamb thy riot dooms to bleed to - day , he thy reason would he skip and play ? as'd 12 ESSAY ON MAN .
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... spirit , faculties , but make it worse ; Reason itself but gives it edge and pow'r ; As heav'n's blest beam turns vinegar more sour . We , wretched subjects , though to lawful sway , In this weak queen , some fav'rite still obey . Ah ...
... spirit , faculties , but make it worse ; Reason itself but gives it edge and pow'r ; As heav'n's blest beam turns vinegar more sour . We , wretched subjects , though to lawful sway , In this weak queen , some fav'rite still obey . Ah ...
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... spirit fell , Another deems him instrument of hell ; If Calvin 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 ...
... spirit fell , Another deems him instrument of hell ; If Calvin 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 ...
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... spirit , its great cure , a crown . Weak , foolish man ! will Heav'n reward us there With the same trash mad mortals wish for here ? The boy and man an individual makes , 175 Yet sigh'st thou now for apples and for cakes ? Go , like the ...
... spirit , its great cure , a crown . Weak , foolish man ! will Heav'n reward us there With the same trash mad mortals wish for here ? The boy and man an individual makes , 175 Yet sigh'st thou now for apples and for cakes ? Go , like the ...
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... spirit , eloquent with ease , Intent to reason , or polite to please . 375 380 O ! while along the stream of time thy name Expanded flies , and gathers all its fame ; Say , shall my little bark attendant sail , 385 Pursue the triumph ...
... spirit , eloquent with ease , Intent to reason , or polite to please . 375 380 O ! while along the stream of time thy name Expanded flies , and gathers all its fame ; Say , shall my little bark attendant sail , 385 Pursue the triumph ...
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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...