An essay on man [by A. Pope]. With some humourous verses on the death of dean Swift, written by himselfPrinted, & sold by the Booksellers of London & Westminster, 1736 - 32 pages |
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... Point his Space . 65 70 Heav'n from all Creatures hides the Book of Fate , All but the Page , prefcrib'd their prefent State ; From Brutes what Men , from Men what Spirits know , 75 Or who could fuffer being here below ? The Lamb thy ...
... Point his Space . 65 70 Heav'n from all Creatures hides the Book of Fate , All but the Page , prefcrib'd their prefent State ; From Brutes what Men , from Men what Spirits know , 75 Or who could fuffer being here below ? The Lamb thy ...
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... Point : This kind , this due Degree 275 Of Blindness , Weakness , Heav'n bestows on thee . in this , or any other Sphere , Submit- Secure to be as bleft as thou canft bear : Safe in the Hand of one difpofing Pow'r , Or in the natal , or ...
... Point : This kind , this due Degree 275 Of Blindness , Weakness , Heav'n bestows on thee . in this , or any other Sphere , Submit- Secure to be as bleft as thou canft bear : Safe in the Hand of one difpofing Pow'r , Or in the natal , or ...
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... Points , to 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 ...
... Points , to 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 ...
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... Point of Vice , was ne'er agreed : Afk where's the North ? At York , ' tis on the Tweed : In Scotland , at the Orcades , and there , At Greenland , Zembla , or the Lord knows where . 210 No Creature owns it , in the first Degree , But ...
... Point of Vice , was ne'er agreed : Afk where's the North ? At York , ' tis on the Tweed : In Scotland , at the Orcades , and there , At Greenland , Zembla , or the Lord knows where . 210 No Creature owns it , in the first Degree , But ...
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... points the Way ? GOD , in the Nature of each Being , founds Its proper Blifs , and sets its proper Bounds : But as he fram'd a Whole , the Whole to bless , On mutual Wants built mutual Happiness : So from the firft , Eternal ORDER ran ...
... points the Way ? GOD , in the Nature of each Being , founds Its proper Blifs , and sets its proper Bounds : But as he fram'd a Whole , the Whole to bless , On mutual Wants built mutual Happiness : So from the firft , Eternal ORDER ran ...
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abfurd Afpiring againſt alike Beaſt Becauſe beft Behold beſt Bleffing blefs'd bleft Blifs Bliſs Caufe Cauſe Courſe Creature Dean DEAN SWIFT Death Defire deſtroy diff'rent dy'd e'er Eafe Earth Eaſe EPISTLE eternal Ev'n ev'ry fame fave Fear ferves fhall fhould fince firft firſt fix'd foar fome Fool form'd Friend ftill fuch fupply gen'ral giv'n gives Gole Gout Happineſs happy Heav'n himſelf Hope Inftinct Int'reft Itfelf juft Juftice Kings Knave Laft laſt Learn'd lefs leſs Love Man's Mankind Mind moft moſt muft muſt Nature Nature's never o'er Paffion Pain pleaſe Pleaſure Pow'r prefent Pride Profe Profpect raiſe Reafon reft reſtrain rife riſe Satyrs Self-Love Senfe ſerve ſhall Skreen Soul ſtill Syſtem taught thee thefe theſe thine Things thofe thoſe thou thouſand thro Tyrant underſtood Univerſe Vice Virtue Wants Weakneſs Whate'er whofe Whole whoſe wife Wiſdom worfe World
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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.