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Page 50
... Make and maintain the balance of the Mind : The lights and shades , whose well accorded strife Give all the strength and colour of our life . Pleasures are ever in our hands or eyes ; And when , in act , they cease , in prospect rise ...
... Make and maintain the balance of the Mind : The lights and shades , whose well accorded strife Give all the strength and colour of our life . Pleasures are ever in our hands or eyes ; And when , in act , they cease , in prospect rise ...
Page 52
... make it worse ; Reason itself but gives it edge and pow'r ; As Heav'n's blest beam turns vinegar more sour . We , wretched subjects though to lawful sway , In this weak queen , some fav'rite still obey : Ah ! if she lend not arms , as ...
... make it worse ; Reason itself but gives it edge and pow'r ; As Heav'n's blest beam turns vinegar more sour . We , wretched subjects though to lawful sway , In this weak queen , some fav'rite still obey : Ah ! if she lend not arms , as ...
Page 54
... make , or justify it made ; Proud of an easy conquest all along , She but removes weak passions for the strong : So , when small humours gather to a gout , The doctor fancies he has driv'n them out . Yes , Nature's road must ever be ...
... make , or justify it made ; Proud of an easy conquest all along , She but removes weak passions for the strong : So , when small humours gather to a gout , The doctor fancies he has driv'n them out . Yes , Nature's road must ever be ...
Page 58
... makes a patriot as it makes a knave . De talents , de vertus quelle récolte heureuse Fait germer 58 AN ESSAY ON MAN , EPISTLE II .
... makes a patriot as it makes a knave . De talents , de vertus quelle récolte heureuse Fait germer 58 AN ESSAY ON MAN , EPISTLE II .
Page 80
... makes it blest ; Which sees no more the stroke , or feels the pain , ' Than favour'd Man by touch etherial slain . The creature had his feast of life before ; Thou too must perish , when thy feast is o'er ! To each unthinking being ...
... makes it blest ; Which sees no more the stroke , or feels the pain , ' Than favour'd Man by touch etherial slain . The creature had his feast of life before ; Thou too must perish , when thy feast is o'er ! To each unthinking being ...
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alike animaux Beast began best blessing blest bliss bonheur call carré commun cart Catilina ciel cieux cœur creature death Delille Dieu earth EPISTLE ÉPITRE equal Ev'n ev'ry faith feel find first fix'd fool form'd friend giv'n gives good grand-jésus great grows Happiness Heav'n heureux hommes Hope humains JACQUES DELILLE kind kings know l'amour l'autre l'Essai sur l'Homme l'instinct l'orgueil l'un l'univers laws life little lord Bolingbroke love made makes Man alone Man's mankind Mérou mind monde mortels nature Nature's Nature's law Nautile never o'er orgueil papier fin grand-raisin papier vélin passions pensée plaisir plaisirs pleasure poème poète Pope pow'rs pride PRIÈRE UNIVERSELLE raison Reason right rise sage same Self-love Sense seul soul state strong suprême taught teach things think thou thro Vanity vaste vélin sup vélin superfin vertu vice Virtue Vois want weak whole wise world
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Page 4 - AWAKE, my St John ! leave all meaner things To low ambition, and the pride of kings. Let us (since life can little more supply Than just to look about us and to die) Expatiate free o'er all this scene of Man ; A mighty maze ! but not without a plan ; A wild, where weeds and flowers promiscuous shoot ; Or garden, tempting with forbidden fruit.
Page 38 - 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...
Page 136 - Who wickedly is wise, or madly brave, Is but the more a fool, the more a knave. Who noble ends by noble means obtains, Or failing, smiles in exile or in chains, Like good Aurelius let him reign, or bleed Like Socrates, that man is great indeed. What's fame? a fancied life in others' breath, A thing beyond us, ev'n before our death.
Page 40 - 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...
Page 14 - Where slaves once more their native land behold, No fiends torment, no Christians thirst for gold. To Be, contents his natural desire, He asks no Angel's wing, no Seraph's fire; But thinks, admitted to that equal sky, His faithful dog shall bear him company.
Page 12 - Hope humbly then ; with trembling pinions soar, Wait the great teacher, Death ; and God adore. What future bliss, he gives not thee to know, But gives that hope to be thy blessing now. Hope springs eternal in the human breast : Man never Is, but always to be blest ; The soul, uneasy, and confined from home, Rests and expatiates in a life to come.
Page 202 - 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; T
Page 30 - 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 106 - For forms of government let fools contest ; Whate'er is best administer'd is best : For modes of faith let graceless zealots fight ; His can't be wrong whose life is in the right...
Page 206 - Through this day's life or death. This day be bread and peace my lot ; All else beneath the sun Thou know'st if best bestowed or not, And let thy will be done.