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Alexander Pope Robert Carruthers. ILIAD ODYSSEY BLACKMORE HOADLEY HAYWOOD NON JUROR DUNCIAD FLEET DITCH NDENNIS HRENSS FAUSTU PANTOMIME OPERA CIBBER DENN THE POETICAL WORKS OF ALEXANDER POPE . ESSAY 04 MAN. SR.
Alexander Pope Robert Carruthers. ILIAD ODYSSEY BLACKMORE HOADLEY HAYWOOD NON JUROR DUNCIAD FLEET DITCH NDENNIS HRENSS FAUSTU PANTOMIME OPERA CIBBER DENN THE POETICAL WORKS OF ALEXANDER POPE . ESSAY 04 MAN. SR.
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Alexander Pope Robert Carruthers. THE POETICAL WORKS OF ALEXANDER POPE . ESSAY 04 MAN VOLUME III . MILFORD HOUSE , STRAND . THE POETICAL OF WORKS ALEXANDER POPE . EDITED BY ROBERT. LONDON : NATHANIEL COOKE ,
Alexander Pope Robert Carruthers. THE POETICAL WORKS OF ALEXANDER POPE . ESSAY 04 MAN VOLUME III . MILFORD HOUSE , STRAND . THE POETICAL OF WORKS ALEXANDER POPE . EDITED BY ROBERT. LONDON : NATHANIEL COOKE ,
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Alexander Pope Robert Carruthers. AN ESSAY ON MAN : - PAGE THE DESIGN 247 EPISTLE I. Argument - Of the Nature and State of Man with re- spect to the Universe 249 EPISTLE II . Argument - Of the Nature of Man with respect to Himself as an ...
Alexander Pope Robert Carruthers. AN ESSAY ON MAN : - PAGE THE DESIGN 247 EPISTLE I. Argument - Of the Nature and State of Man with re- spect to the Universe 249 EPISTLE II . Argument - Of the Nature of Man with respect to Himself as an ...
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... essays , not only against the wit and writings , but against the character and person of Mr. Pope . And that of all those men who have received pleasure from his works , which by modest computation may be about a hundred thousand in ...
... essays , not only against the wit and writings , but against the character and person of Mr. Pope . And that of all those men who have received pleasure from his works , which by modest computation may be about a hundred thousand in ...
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... TO THE COMPLETE EDITION OF 1743 . I HAVE long had a design of giving some sort of notes on the works of this poet . Before I had the happiness of his acquaintance , I had written a com mentary on his " Essay on Man , " and THE DUNCIAD . 9.
... TO THE COMPLETE EDITION OF 1743 . I HAVE long had a design of giving some sort of notes on the works of this poet . Before I had the happiness of his acquaintance , I had written a com mentary on his " Essay on Man , " and THE DUNCIAD . 9.
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Page 284 - In faith and hope the world will disagree, But all mankind's concern is charity : All must be false that thwart this one great end, And all of God that bless mankind or mend. Man, like the generous vine, supported lives ; The strength he gains is from th
Page 261 - Know then thyself, presume not God to scan, The proper study of mankind is man. Placed on this isthmus of a middle state, A being darkly wise, and rudely great: With too much knowledge for the sceptic side, With too much weakness for the Stoic's pride, He hangs between; in doubt to act, or rest; In doubt to deem himself a God, or beast...
Page 252 - The lamb thy riot dooms to bleed today, Had he thy reason, would he skip and play? Pleased to the last, he crops the flowery food, And licks the hand just raised to shed his blood.
Page 291 - When the loose mountain trembles from on high, Shall gravitation cease, if you go by ? Or some old temple, nodding to its fall, For Chartres' head reserve the hanging wall ? But still this world (so fitted for the knave) Contents us not.
Page 3 - Nor public flame, nor private, dares to shine; Nor human spark is left, nor glimpse divine! Lo! thy dread empire, Chaos ! is restored; Light dies before thy uncreating word ; Thy hand, great Anarch, lets the curtain fall, And universal darkness buries all.
Page 271 - Behold the child, by Nature's kindly law, Pleased with a rattle, tickled with a straw: Some livelier plaything gives his youth delight, A little louder, but as empty quite...
Page 298 - See the sole bliss heav'n could on all bestow ! Which who but feels can taste, but thinks can know: Yet poor with fortune, and with learning blind, The bad must miss, the good, untaught, will find; 330 Slave to no sect, who takes no private road, But looks through nature up to nature's God: Pursues that chain which links th...