The Rape of the Lock: And An Essay on ManAmerican Book Company, 1898 - 110 pages |
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... . Born to a life that was one long dis- ease , " however much he may have been to some an object of contempt , he was a fit subject for charity , if not for pity . A dwarf in stature , crooked in form , weak of INTRODUCTION . 7.
... . Born to a life that was one long dis- ease , " however much he may have been to some an object of contempt , he was a fit subject for charity , if not for pity . A dwarf in stature , crooked in form , weak of INTRODUCTION . 7.
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... weak of constitution , vain be- cause of precocity too much flattered , irritable from ill health , he was hampered greatly in the race of life . In his childhood he was amiable and sweet - tempered ; in his maturer years he was " the ...
... weak of constitution , vain be- cause of precocity too much flattered , irritable from ill health , he was hampered greatly in the race of life . In his childhood he was amiable and sweet - tempered ; in his maturer years he was " the ...
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... weak , so little , and so blind ? 1 Imitated by Gray . ( See Ode on the Spring , line 33. ) 2 " But vindicate , " etc. Imitated from Milton . Cf. Paradise Lost , I. line 26. " This is a better description of the subject of the Essay ...
... weak , so little , and so blind ? 1 Imitated by Gray . ( See Ode on the Spring , line 33. ) 2 " But vindicate , " etc. Imitated from Milton . Cf. Paradise Lost , I. line 26. " This is a better description of the subject of the Essay ...
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... 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 ? 3 Of systems possible , if ...
... 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 ? 3 Of systems possible , if ...
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... weakness , Heaven bestows on thee . Submit in this , or any other sphere , : Secure 3 to be as blessed as thou canst bear : Safe in the hand of one disposing Power , Or in the natal , or the mortal hour . 280 285 All Nature is but Art ...
... weakness , Heaven bestows on thee . Submit in this , or any other sphere , : Secure 3 to be as blessed as thou canst bear : Safe in the hand of one disposing Power , Or in the natal , or the mortal hour . 280 285 All Nature is but Art ...
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Page 29 - Favours to none, to all she smiles extends ; Oft she rejects, but never once offends. Bright as the sun, her eyes the gazers strike, And, like the sun, they shine on all alike.
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 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 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.
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 63 - Annual for me, the grape, the rose, renew The juice nectareous, and the balmy dew ; For me, the mine a thousand treasures brings ; For me, health gushes from a thousand springs; Seas roll to waft me, suns to light me rise ; My foot-stool Earth, my canopy the skies.
Page 93 - The strength he gains is from th' embrace he gives. On their own axis as the planets run, Yet make at once their circle round the sun; So two consistent motions act the soul; And one regards itself, and one the whole. Thus God and nature link'd the gen'ral frame, And bade self-love and social be the same.
Page 76 - Grows with his growth, and strengthens with his strength: So, cast and mingled with his very frame, The Mind's disease, its ruling Passion came; Each vital humour which should feed the whole, Soon flows to this, in body and in soul.
Page 40 - The little engine on his fingers' ends; This just behind Belinda's neck he spread, As o'er the fragrant steams she bends her head. Swift to the lock a thousand sprites repair, A thousand wings, by turns, blow back the hair; And thrice they twitched the diamond in her ear; Thrice she looked back, and thrice the foe drew near.