The Works of Alexander Pope, Esq. in Six Volumes Complete: Imitations, moral essays, satires, etcC. Bathurst, 1787 |
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Page 87
... and Father of all things . The Mother of the Au- thor , a perfon of great piety and charity , died the year this poem was finished , viz . 1733 . Or Change admits , or Nature lets it fall , EP . IV . 87 ESSAY ON MAN .
... and Father of all things . The Mother of the Au- thor , a perfon of great piety and charity , died the year this poem was finished , viz . 1733 . Or Change admits , or Nature lets it fall , EP . IV . 87 ESSAY ON MAN .
Page 94
... perfon who fhewed me the place , pointing to a plain stone ) was the " monument of the Great TEAGUE , king of Ireland . I had never " heard of him , and could not but reflect of how little value is Great- nefs , that has barely left a ...
... perfon who fhewed me the place , pointing to a plain stone ) was the " monument of the Great TEAGUE , king of Ireland . I had never " heard of him , and could not but reflect of how little value is Great- nefs , that has barely left a ...
Page 121
... perfon defcribed gave a loose to his Fancy when he fhould have ufed his Judgment ; aud purfued his Speculations when he should have trufted to his Ex- perience . VER . 207. ' Twas all for fear , etc. ] To understand this , we must ...
... perfon defcribed gave a loose to his Fancy when he fhould have ufed his Judgment ; aud purfued his Speculations when he should have trufted to his Ex- perience . VER . 207. ' Twas all for fear , etc. ] To understand this , we must ...
Page 142
... Perfon of his Time , Who could CHEAT without the Mask of HONESTY , Retain his Primeval MEANNESS When poffeffed of TEN THOUSAND a Year , And having daily deferved the GIBBET for what he did , Was at laft condemned to it for what he could ...
... Perfon of his Time , Who could CHEAT without the Mask of HONESTY , Retain his Primeval MEANNESS When poffeffed of TEN THOUSAND a Year , And having daily deferved the GIBBET for what he did , Was at laft condemned to it for what he could ...
Page 145
... Perfon of an ancient family , and ample fortune , without one other quality of a Gentleman , who , after ruining himself at the Gam- ing - table , paft the reft of his days in fitting there to fee the ruin of others ; preferring to ...
... Perfon of an ancient family , and ample fortune , without one other quality of a Gentleman , who , after ruining himself at the Gam- ing - table , paft the reft of his days in fitting there to fee the ruin of others ; preferring to ...
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Page 52 - Suns run lawless thro' the sky; Let ruling Angels from their spheres be hurl'd, Being on Being wreck'd, and world on world ; Heav'n's whole foundations to their centre nod, 255 And Nature trembles to the throne of God. All this dread ORDER break— for whom? for thee? Vile worm ! — oh Madness ! Pride ! Impiety ! IX.
Page 55 - 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 92 - 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 136 - Pleasures the sex, as children Birds, pursue, Still out of reach, yet never out of view; Sure, if they catch, to spoil the Toy at most, To covet flying, and regret when lost: At last, to follies Youth could scarce defend...
Page 70 - 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 91 - 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 43 - 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 74 - Nor think, in Nature's state they blindly trod; The state of Nature was the reign of God: Self-love and social at her birth began, Union the bond of all things, and of man.
Page 44 - 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 187 - And born to write, converse, and live with ease: Should such a man, too fond to rule alone, Bear, like the Turk, no brother near the throne...