The Works of Alexander Pope, Esq. ...: Moral essaysJ. and P. Knapton, 1751 |
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... expence ; The merchant's toil , the fage's indolence , The monk's humility , the hero's pride , All , all alike , find Reason on their fide . Th ' Eternal Art educing good from ill , Grafts on this Paffion our best principle : ' Tis ...
... expence ; The merchant's toil , the fage's indolence , The monk's humility , the hero's pride , All , all alike , find Reason on their fide . Th ' Eternal Art educing good from ill , Grafts on this Paffion our best principle : ' Tis ...
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... expences . P. VER . 84. Unhappy Whar- ton , ] A Nobleman of great qualities , but as unfortunate in the application of them , as if they had been vices and follies See his Charac- ter in the first Epiftle . P. 95 VER . 96. Die , and en ...
... expences . P. VER . 84. Unhappy Whar- ton , ] A Nobleman of great qualities , but as unfortunate in the application of them , as if they had been vices and follies See his Charac- ter in the first Epiftle . P. 95 VER . 96. Die , and en ...
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... expence , 185 190 And who would take the Poor from Providence ? Like fome lone Chartreux ftands the good old Hall , Silence without , and Fafts within the wall ; No rafter'd roofs with dance and tabor found , No noontide - bell invites ...
... expence , 185 190 And who would take the Poor from Providence ? Like fome lone Chartreux ftands the good old Hall , Silence without , and Fafts within the wall ; No rafter'd roofs with dance and tabor found , No noontide - bell invites ...
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... expence , Join with Oeconomy , Magnificence ; 224 With Splendor , Charity ; with Plenty , Health ; Oh teach us , BATHURST ! yet unspoil'd by wealth ! That fecret rare , between th'extremes to move Of mad Good - nature , and of mean Self ...
... expence , Join with Oeconomy , Magnificence ; 224 With Splendor , Charity ; with Plenty , Health ; Oh teach us , BATHURST ! yet unspoil'd by wealth ! That fecret rare , between th'extremes to move Of mad Good - nature , and of mean Self ...
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... Expence in People of Wealth and Quality . The abufe of the word Tafte , 13. That the first principle and foundation , in this as in every thing elfe , is Good Senfe , 40. The chief proof of it is to follow Nature , even in works of mere ...
... Expence in People of Wealth and Quality . The abufe of the word Tafte , 13. That the first principle and foundation , in this as in every thing elfe , is Good Senfe , 40. The chief proof of it is to follow Nature , even in works of mere ...
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Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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...
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 15 - Mark how it mounts to man's imperial race, From the green myriads in the peopled...
Página 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!
Página 187 - Consult the Genius of the Place in all; That tells the Waters or to rise, or fall; Or helps th...
Página 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...