An essay on man [by A. Pope]. With some humourous verses on the death of dean Swift, written by himself |
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... Tracts , the giddy Heights explore Of all , who blindly creep , or fightless foar ; Eye Nature's Walks , fhoot Folly as it flies , And catch the Manners living , as they rise ; B 3 10 Laugh Laugh where we must , be candid where we can.
... Tracts , the giddy Heights explore Of all , who blindly creep , or fightless foar ; Eye Nature's Walks , fhoot Folly as it flies , And catch the Manners living , as they rise ; B 3 10 Laugh Laugh where we must , be candid where we can.
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... rise , and to descend , Explain his own Beginning , or his End ? Alas , what Wonder ! Man's fuperior Part Uncheck'd may rife , and climb from Art to Art ; But when his own great Work is but begun , What Reason waves , by Paffion is ...
... rise , and to descend , Explain his own Beginning , or his End ? Alas , what Wonder ! Man's fuperior Part Uncheck'd may rife , and climb from Art to Art ; But when his own great Work is but begun , What Reason waves , by Paffion is ...
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... measure others Wants by thine . See ! and confefs , one Comfort ftill must rise , ' Tis this , tho ' Man's a Fool , yet GOD IS WISE . 270 The End of the fecond EPISTLE . AN ES S SAY ON M A N. EPISTLE III 16 Epift . II . ESSAY on MAN .
... measure others Wants by thine . See ! and confefs , one Comfort ftill must rise , ' Tis this , tho ' Man's a Fool , yet GOD IS WISE . 270 The End of the fecond EPISTLE . AN ES S SAY ON M A N. EPISTLE III 16 Epift . II . ESSAY on MAN .
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... rise , That graft Benevolence on Charities , From private Sparkles raife the gen'ral Flame , And bid Self - Love , and Social be the fame : 130 145 140 That No Ill could fear in God ; and understood A 20 Epift . III . ESSAY on MAN .
... rise , That graft Benevolence on Charities , From private Sparkles raife the gen'ral Flame , And bid Self - Love , and Social be the fame : 130 145 140 That No Ill could fear in God ; and understood A 20 Epift . III . ESSAY on MAN .
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... rise ; Act well your Part , there all the Honour lies . Fortune in Men has fome fmall Diff'rence made , 185 One flaunts in Rags , one flutters in Brocade : The Cobler apron'd , and the Parfon gown'd , The Friar hooded , and the Monarch ...
... rise ; Act well your Part , there all the Honour lies . Fortune in Men has fome fmall Diff'rence made , 185 One flaunts in Rags , one flutters in Brocade : The Cobler apron'd , and the Parfon gown'd , The Friar hooded , and the Monarch ...
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Page 9 - 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 30 - The only point where human bliss stands still, And tastes the good without the fall to ill ; Where only merit...
Page 10 - 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 27 - I'll tell you, friend! a wise man and a fool. You'll find, if once the monarch acts the monk, Or, cobbler-like, the parson will be drunk, Worth makes the man, and want of it, the fellow; The rest is all but leather or prunella.
Page 28 - Who wickedly is wise, or madly brave, Is but the more a fool, the more a knave.
Page 2 - 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 10 - Man, but for that, no action could attend, And, but for this, were active to no end: Fix'd like a plant on his peculiar spot, To draw nutrition, propagate, and rot: Or, meteor-like, flame lawless through the void, Destroying others, by himself destroy'd.
Page 27 - The friar hooded, and the monarch crown'd. " What differ more (you cry) than crown and cowl !" I'll tell you, friend ! a wise man and a fool.
Page 18 - Joy tunes his voice, joy elevates his wings. Is it for thee the linnet pours his throat ? Loves of his own and raptures swell the note.
Page 1 - 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.