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In this , or any other sphere , 285 Secure to be as blest as thou canst bean : Safe in the hand of one disposing Power , Or in the natal , or the mortal hour . All Nature is but Art , unknown to thee ; All Chance , Direction , which ...
In this , or any other sphere , 285 Secure to be as blest as thou canst bean : Safe in the hand of one disposing Power , Or in the natal , or the mortal hour . All Nature is but Art , unknown to thee ; All Chance , Direction , which ...
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Page 41 - 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...
Page 29 - 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.
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| Title | The Works of the English Poets: Pope Volume 33 of The Works of the English Poets: With Prefaces, Biographical and Critical, Charles Bathurst |
| Author | Samuel Johnson |
| Contributors | H. Hughs, Charles Bathurst |
| Publisher | H. Hughs, 1779 |
| Original from | Oxford University |
| Digitized | 26 Sep 2006 |
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