Der Mensch, ein philosophisches GedichtA. König, 1772 - 351 páginas |
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... pride of aiming at more knowledge , and pretending to more Perfection , the cause of Man's error and mifery . The impiety of putting himself in the place of God , and judging of the fitness or un- fitness , perfection or imperfection ...
... pride of aiming at more knowledge , and pretending to more Perfection , the cause of Man's error and mifery . The impiety of putting himself in the place of God , and judging of the fitness or un- fitness , perfection or imperfection ...
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... pride of fuch a defire , V. 259 . X. The confequence of all , the abfolute fubmif- fion due to Providerce , both as to our prefent and future ftate , V. 281. & c . to the end . Perfius Satyr . III . v . 66. fqq . Difcite o miferi ...
... pride of fuch a defire , V. 259 . X. The confequence of all , the abfolute fubmif- fion due to Providerce , both as to our prefent and future ftate , V. 281. & c . to the end . Perfius Satyr . III . v . 66. fqq . Difcite o miferi ...
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... pride of Kings . Let us ( fince Life can little more fupply Than just to look about us , and to die ) Expatiate free o'er all this fcene of Man ; A mighty maze ! but not without a plan ; A Wild , where weeds and flow'rs promifcuous ...
... pride of Kings . Let us ( fince Life can little more fupply Than just to look about us , and to die ) Expatiate free o'er all this fcene of Man ; A mighty maze ! but not without a plan ; A Wild , where weeds and flow'rs promifcuous ...
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... pride and dulnefs comprehend His actions ' , paffions ' , being's , use and end ; Why doing , fuff'ring , check'd , impell'd ; and why This hour a slave , the next a deity . Then fay not , Man's imperfect , heav'n in fault ; Say rather ...
... pride and dulnefs comprehend His actions ' , paffions ' , being's , use and end ; Why doing , fuff'ring , check'd , impell'd ; and why This hour a slave , the next a deity . Then fay not , Man's imperfect , heav'n in fault ; Say rather ...
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... Pride , in reas'ning Pride , our error lies ; All quit their fphere , and rush into the skies . Pride ftill is aiming at the bleft abodes , Men would be Angels , Angels would be Gods . Afpiring to be Gods , if Angels fell ; Afpiring to ...
... Pride , in reas'ning Pride , our error lies ; All quit their fphere , and rush into the skies . Pride ftill is aiming at the bleft abodes , Men would be Angels , Angels would be Gods . Afpiring to be Gods , if Angels fell ; Afpiring to ...
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Página 11 - What modes of sight betwixt each wide extreme, The mole's dim curtain, and the lynx's beam; Of smell, the headlong lioness between, And hound sagacious on the tainted green ; Of hearing, from the life that fills the flood, To that which warbles through the vernal wood. The spider's touch, how exquisitely fine ! Feels at each thread, and lives along the line...
Página 39 - tis the price of toil; The knave deserves it, when he tills the soil, The knave deserves it, when he tempts the main, Where folly fights for kings, or dives for gain. The good man may be weak, be indolent; Nor is his claim to plenty, but content.
Página 5 - 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.
Página 8 - Yet simple Nature to his hope has given, Behind the cloud-topt hill, an humbler heaven; Some safer world in depth of woods embraced, Some happier island in the watery waste, 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.
Página 15 - 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...
Página 23 - Pleas'd with a rattle, tickled with a straw ; Some livelier plaything gives his youth delight, A little louder, but as empty quite ; Scarfs, garters, gold, amuse his riper stage, And beads and pray'r-books are the toys of age : Pleas'd with this bauble still, as that before ; Till tir'd he sleeps, and Life's poor play is o'er.
Página 19 - As man, perhaps, the moment of his breath Receives the lurking principle of death; The young disease, that must subdue at length, Grows with his growth, and strengthens with his strength; So, cast and mingled with his very frame.
Página 26 - Who for thy table feeds the wanton fawn, For him as kindly spread the flow'ry lawn: Is it for thee the lark ascends and sings? 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.
Página 16 - Uncheck'd may rise, and climb from art to art; But when his own great work is but begun, What Reason weaves, by Passion is undone. Trace Science then, with modesty thy guide; First strip off...
Página 23 - Hope travels through, nor quits us when we die. Behold the child, by nature's kindly law, Pleased with a rattle, tickled with a straw : Some livelier plaything gives his youth delight, A little louder, but as empty quite...