The Works of Alexander Pope, Volume 3J. F. Dove, St. John's Square, 1822 |
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... shew , like a great mathematician as he is , that it would be very inconvenient for the Page to be as big as his Lord and Master . It is pity all this fine reasoning should proceed on a ridiculous blunder . The poet thus reproves the im ...
... shew , like a great mathematician as he is , that it would be very inconvenient for the Page to be as big as his Lord and Master . It is pity all this fine reasoning should proceed on a ridiculous blunder . The poet thus reproves the im ...
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... shew ( as many divines do in their discourses ) the absolute necessity of another , for the defence of the dispensations of Providence . Dr. Balguy , from p . 110 to p . 127 , has minutely , and step by step , confuted every part of ...
... shew ( as many divines do in their discourses ) the absolute necessity of another , for the defence of the dispensations of Providence . Dr. Balguy , from p . 110 to p . 127 , has minutely , and step by step , confuted every part of ...
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... shews it may , where is the wonder that man , who was created a free agent , and hath it in his power every moment to transgress the eternal rule of right , should sometimes go out of order ? " Are free agents , and beings accountable ...
... shews it may , where is the wonder that man , who was created a free agent , and hath it in his power every moment to transgress the eternal rule of right , should sometimes go out of order ? " Are free agents , and beings accountable ...
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... shews to Theodorus the great palace of the Destinies , in which were placed all the pictures and representations of all possible worlds , from the worst model to the best . Theodorus beholds , in the latter , the crime which Sextus was ...
... shews to Theodorus the great palace of the Destinies , in which were placed all the pictures and representations of all possible worlds , from the worst model to the best . Theodorus beholds , in the latter , the crime which Sextus was ...
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... shew that , to be Happy , we must be moderate in all Things ; the fifth , that Pleasure must proceed from God ; the sixth , that Perfect Happiness cannot be attained in this Life , and that Men ought not to complain ; the seventh and ...
... shew that , to be Happy , we must be moderate in all Things ; the fifth , that Pleasure must proceed from God ; the sixth , that Perfect Happiness cannot be attained in this Life , and that Men ought not to complain ; the seventh and ...
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Page 19 - Who sees with equal eye, as God of all, A hero perish, or a sparrow fall, Atoms or systems into ruin hurl'd, And now a bubble burst, and now a world.
Page 165 - What conscience dictates to be done, Or warns me not to do, This teach me more than hell to shun, That, more than heav'n pursue. What blessings Thy free bounty gives, Let me not cast away; For God is paid when man receives, To enjoy is to obey.
Page 21 - 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...
Page 166 - Let not this weak, unknowing hand Presume thy bolts to throw, And deal damnation round the land On each I judge thy foe. If I am right, thy grace impart, Still in the right to stay ; If I am wrong, O teach my heart To find that better way.
Page 12 - Say first, of God above, or man below, What can we reason, but from what we know ? Of man, what see we but his station here, From which to reason, or to which refer? 20 Thro' worlds unnumber'd tho' the God be known, 'Tis ours to trace him only in our own.
Page 22 - In Pride, in reas'ning Pride, our error lies; All quit their sphere, and rush into the skies. Pride still is aiming at the blest abodes, Men would be Angels, Angels would be Gods. Aspiring to be Gods, if Angels fell, Aspiring to be Angels, Men rebel: And who but wishes to invert the laws Of Order, sins against th
Page 164 - To know but this, that Thou art good, And that myself am blind ; Yet gave me, in this dark estate, To see the good from ill ; And binding nature fast in fate, Left free the human will.
Page 35 - What modes of sight betwixt each wide extreme, The mole's dim curtain, and the lynx's beam : Of smell, the headlong lioness between, And hound sagacious on the tainted green : Of hearing, from the life that fills the flood, To that which warbles through the vernal wood ? The spider's touch, how exquisitely fine ! Feels at each thread, and lives along the line : In the nice bee, what sense so subtly true From pois'nous herbs extracts the healing dew?
Page 202 - twould a saint provoke" (Were the last words that poor Narcissa spoke), " No, let a charming chintz, and Brussels lace Wrap my cold limbs, and shade my lifeless face : One would not, sure, be frightful when one's dead — And, Betty, give this cheek a little red.
Page 211 - No Thought advances, but her Eddy Brain Whisks it about, and down it goes again. Full sixty years the World has been her Trade, The wisest Fool much Time has ever made. From loveless youth to unrespected age, No Passion gratify'd except her Rage.