The Works of Alexander Pope, Esq. ...: Moral essaysJ. and P. Knapton, 1751 |
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... our isle , We therefore see a Fool , because we smile . Truth in her gloomy Cave why fondly feek ? 205 Lo , gay fhe fits in Laughter's dimpled cheek : 210 Contemns each furly Academic foe , And courts the fpruce xviii ESSAY ON SATIRE .
... our isle , We therefore see a Fool , because we smile . Truth in her gloomy Cave why fondly feek ? 205 Lo , gay fhe fits in Laughter's dimpled cheek : 210 Contemns each furly Academic foe , And courts the fpruce xviii ESSAY ON SATIRE .
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... See , great ERASMUS breaks the spell , And wounds triumphant Folly in her Cell ! ( In vain the folemn Cowl furrounds her face , Vain all her bigot cant , her four grimace ) With fhame compell'd her leaden throne to quit , And own the ...
... See , great ERASMUS breaks the spell , And wounds triumphant Folly in her Cell ! ( In vain the folemn Cowl furrounds her face , Vain all her bigot cant , her four grimace ) With fhame compell'd her leaden throne to quit , And own the ...
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... urge thy pow'r , the black attempt confound , And dash the smoaking Censer to the ground . Thus aw'd to fear , inftructed Bards may see , That Guilt is doom'd to fink in Infamy . 530 ΑΝ ESSAY ON M A N : ΤΟ H. ST xxxii ESSAY ON SATIRE .
... urge thy pow'r , the black attempt confound , And dash the smoaking Censer to the ground . Thus aw'd to fear , inftructed Bards may see , That Guilt is doom'd to fink in Infamy . 530 ΑΝ ESSAY ON M A N : ΤΟ H. ST xxxii ESSAY ON SATIRE .
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... see we but his station here , From which to reason , or to which refer ? NOTES . VER . 12. Of all who blindly creep , & c . ] i . e . Those who only follow the blind guidance of their Paf- fions ; or those who leave behind them common ...
... see we but his station here , From which to reason , or to which refer ? NOTES . VER . 12. Of all who blindly creep , & c . ] i . e . Those who only follow the blind guidance of their Paf- fions ; or those who leave behind them common ...
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... See worlds on worlds compofe one universe , Obferve how system into system runs , What other Planets circle other funs , What vary'd Being peoples ev'ry star , May tell why Heav'n has made us as we are . But of this frame the bearings ...
... See worlds on worlds compofe one universe , Obferve how system into system runs , What other Planets circle other funs , What vary'd Being peoples ev'ry star , May tell why Heav'n has made us as we are . But of this frame the bearings ...
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Page 23 - 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 37 - As man, perhaps, the moment of his breath Receives the lurking principle of death; The young disease, that must subdue at length, Grows with his growth, and strengthens with his strength; So, cast and mingled with his very frame.
Page 27 - The proper study of mankind is Man. Plac'd 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; In doubt his mind or body to prefer; Born but to die, and reas'ning but to err...
Page 18 - Were we to press, inferior might on ours; Or in the full creation leave a void, Where, one step broken, the great scale's destroy'd: From Nature's chain whatever link you strike, Tenth, or ten thousandth, breaks the chain alike. And, if each system in gradation roll Alike essential to th' amazing whole, The least confusion but in one, not all That system only, but the whole must fall.
Page 43 - Ask where's the North? at York, 'tis on the Tweed; In Scotland, at the Orcades ; and there, At Greenland, Zembla, or the Lord knows where.
Page 42 - Fools ! who from hence into the notion fall, That vice or virtue there is none at all. If white and black blend, soften, and unite A thousand ways, is there no black or white ? Ask your own heart, and nothing is so plain ; 'Tis to mistake them, costs the time and pain.
Page 15 - Mark how it mounts to man's imperial race, From the green myriads in the peopled...
Page 87 - Heroes are much the same, the point's agreed, From Macedonia's madman to the Swede ; The whole strange purpose of their lives, to find Or make an enemy of all mankind!
Page 187 - Consult the Genius of the Place in all; That tells the Waters or to rise, or fall; Or helps th...
Page 9 - Lo, the poor Indian! whose untutor'd mind Sees God in clouds, or hears him in the wind; His soul, proud science never taught to stray Far as the solar walk, or milky way...