The Works of Alexander Pope, Esq: Essay on man. Moral essays. An essay on satireJ. Johnson, 1806 |
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... Mind as in that of the Body ; more good will accrue to mankind by attending to the large , open , and perceptible parts , than by studying too much fuch finer nerves and vef- fels , the conformations and ufes of which will for ever ...
... Mind as in that of the Body ; more good will accrue to mankind by attending to the large , open , and perceptible parts , than by studying too much fuch finer nerves and vef- fels , the conformations and ufes of which will for ever ...
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... mind which fees not infi- nitely , can fee nothing fully . This doctrine was inculcated by Plato and the Stoics , but more amply and particularly by the later Platonifts , and by Antoninus and Simplicius . In illuftrating his fubject ...
... mind which fees not infi- nitely , can fee nothing fully . This doctrine was inculcated by Plato and the Stoics , but more amply and particularly by the later Platonifts , and by Antoninus and Simplicius . In illuftrating his fubject ...
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... Mind ; the Origin , Ufe , and End of the Paffions and Affections , both selfish and focial ; and the wrong Pursuits of Happiness in Power , Plea- fure , & c . The tenth , eleventh , twelfth , & c . have relation to the fubjects of the ...
... Mind ; the Origin , Ufe , and End of the Paffions and Affections , both selfish and focial ; and the wrong Pursuits of Happiness in Power , Plea- fure , & c . The tenth , eleventh , twelfth , & c . have relation to the fubjects of the ...
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... mind muft perforce obferve its meanness . VER . 26. What other planets ] What muft the great Sage have felt , when the idea of " other planets circling other funs , " and the magnificent conceptions of the UNIVERSE , as wonderful in ...
... mind muft perforce obferve its meanness . VER . 26. What other planets ] What muft the great Sage have felt , when the idea of " other planets circling other funs , " and the magnificent conceptions of the UNIVERSE , as wonderful in ...
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... Mind . " WARTON . VER . 81. The lamb thy riot dooms ] The tenderness of this ftriking image , and particularly the circumftance in the last line , has an artful effect in alleviating the drynefs of the argumentative parts of the Effay ...
... Mind . " WARTON . VER . 81. The lamb thy riot dooms ] The tenderness of this ftriking image , and particularly the circumftance in the last line , has an artful effect in alleviating the drynefs of the argumentative parts of the Effay ...
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Page 56 - All discord, harmony not understood ; All partial evil, universal good : And, spite of pride, in erring reason's spite, One truth is clear, WHATEVER is, is RIGHT.
Page 52 - 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 64 - Know then thyself, presume not God to scan, 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; Born but to die, and reas'ning but to err...
Page 147 - Parnassian laurels yield, Or reap'd in iron harvests of the field ? • Where grows ? — where grows it not? If vain our toil, We ought to blame the culture, not the soil...
Page 247 - I must paint it. Come then, the colours and the ground prepare ! Dip in the Rainbow, trick her off in Air ; Choose a firm Cloud, before it fall, and in it Catch, ere she change, the Cynthia of this minute.
Page 48 - To serve mere engines to the ruling mind ? Just as absurd for any part to claim To be another in this...
Page 105 - Who for thy table feeds the wanton fawn, For him as kindly spread the flow'ry lawn : Is it for thee the lark ascends and sings? Joy tunes his voice, joy elevates his wings.
Page 306 - Or in proud falls magnificently lost, But clear and artless, pouring through the plain Health to the sick, and solace to the swain.
Page 15 - 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 ? Thro' worlds unnumber'd tho' the God be known, "Tis ours to trace him only in our own.
Page 65 - Created half to rise, and half to fall: Great lord of all things, yet a prey to all; Sole judge of truth, in endless error hurl'd; The glory jest, and riddle of the world!