The Rape of the Lock: And An Essay on ManAmerican Book Company, 1898 - 110 pages |
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... reason , common sense , true morality , and playful fancy ; " while his detractors condemn his poetry as false , unnatural , stilted , and altogether vicious . The student , after reading his most char- acteristic works , will probably ...
... reason , common sense , true morality , and playful fancy ; " while his detractors condemn his poetry as false , unnatural , stilted , and altogether vicious . The student , after reading his most char- acteristic works , will probably ...
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... reasons . The one will appear obvious : that principles , maxims , or pre- cepts so written both strike the reader more strongly at first and are more easily retained by him afterwards . The other may seem odd , but is true : I found I ...
... reasons . The one will appear obvious : that principles , maxims , or pre- cepts so written both strike the reader more strongly at first and are more easily retained by him afterwards . The other may seem odd , but is true : I found I ...
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... reason ; that reason alone countervails all the other faculties ( verse 207 ) . VIII . How much further this order and subordination of living creatures may extend , above and below us ; were any part of which broken , not that part ...
... reason ; that reason alone countervails all the other faculties ( verse 207 ) . VIII . How much further this order and subordination of living creatures may extend , above and below us ; were any part of which broken , not that part ...
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... reason guess , 1 Why formed no weaker , blinder , and no less ? Ask of thy mother earth , why oaks are made Taller or stronger than the weeds they shade ? Or ask of yonder argent fields 2 above , Why Jove's satellites are less than Jove ...
... reason guess , 1 Why formed no weaker , blinder , and no less ? Ask of thy mother earth , why oaks are made Taller or stronger than the weeds they shade ? Or ask of yonder argent fields 2 above , Why Jove's satellites are less than Jove ...
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... reason right is to submit . 160 165 Better for us , perhaps , it might appear , Were there all harmony , all virtue here ; That never air or ocean felt the wind ; That never passion discomposed the mind . But all 5 subsists by elemental ...
... reason right is to submit . 160 165 Better for us , perhaps , it might appear , Were there all harmony , all virtue here ; That never air or ocean felt the wind ; That never passion discomposed the mind . But all 5 subsists by elemental ...
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Page 35 - Who gave the ball, or paid the visit last ; One speaks the glory of the British queen, And one describes a charming Indian screen ; A third interprets motions, looks, and eyes ; At every word a reputation dies.
Page 71 - 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; In doubt his mind or body to prefer...
Page 58 - The latent tracts, the giddy heights, explore Of all who blindly creep, or sightless soar; Eye Nature's walks, shoot folly as it flies, And catch the manners living as they rise ; , Laugh where we must, be candid where we can, But vindicate the ways of God to man.
Page 68 - 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...
Page 39 - The berries crackle, and the mill turns round; On shining altars of Japan they raise The silver lamp; the fiery spirits blaze: From silver spouts the grateful liquors glide, While China's earth receives the smoking tide: At once they gratify their scent and taste, And frequent cups prolong the rich repast.
Page 58 - He, who through vast immensity can pierce, See worlds on worlds compose one universe, Observe how system into system runs, What other planets circle other suns, What varied being peoples every star, May tell why Heaven has made us as we are.
Page 79 - 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?
Page 68 - Suns run lawless through the sky; Let ruling Angels from their spheres be hurled, Being on Being wrecked, and world on world; Heaven's whole foundations to their centre nod, And Nature tremble to the throne of God.
Page 30 - But chiefly Love — to Love an Altar built, Of twelve vast French romances, neatly gilt. There lay three garters, half a pair of gloves, And all the trophies of his former loves ; With tender billet-doux he lights the pyre, And breathes three amorous sighs to raise the fire.
Page 98 - Heav'n still with laughter the vain toil surveys, And buries madmen in the heaps they raise. Know, all the good that individuals find, Or God and nature meant to mere mankind, Reason's whole pleasure, all the joys of sense, Lie in three words, health, peace, and competence But health consists with temperance alone ; And peace, oh virtue ! peace is all thy own.