The Works of Alexander Pope Esq, Volume 3J. and P. Knapton [and others], 1751 |
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Página xiv
... most subtly true , From poys'nous Vice she draws a healing dew : 110 Weak are the ties that civil arts can find , 115 To quell the ferment of the tainted mind : Cunning evades , fecurely wrapt in wiles ; And force ftrong - finew'd rends ...
... most subtly true , From poys'nous Vice she draws a healing dew : 110 Weak are the ties that civil arts can find , 115 To quell the ferment of the tainted mind : Cunning evades , fecurely wrapt in wiles ; And force ftrong - finew'd rends ...
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... most ; Folly the Laureat's , Vice was Chartres ' boast : Then where's the wrong , to gibbet high the name Of Fools and Knaves already dead to fhame ? Oft SATIRE acts the faithful Surgeon's part ; Gen'rous and kind tho ' painful is her ...
... most ; Folly the Laureat's , Vice was Chartres ' boast : Then where's the wrong , to gibbet high the name Of Fools and Knaves already dead to fhame ? Oft SATIRE acts the faithful Surgeon's part ; Gen'rous and kind tho ' painful is her ...
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... most distinguish'd art But makes us grieve you want an honest heart . 340 Nor think the Mufe by SATIRE's Law confin'd : She yields defcription of the nobleft kind . Inferior art the Landskip may design , And paint the purple ev'ning in ...
... most distinguish'd art But makes us grieve you want an honest heart . 340 Nor think the Mufe by SATIRE's Law confin'd : She yields defcription of the nobleft kind . Inferior art the Landskip may design , And paint the purple ev'ning in ...
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... most compassio- nate , on fome occafions , to reftrain their mirth : And that human crimes are fo fla- gitious , that the most candid have feldom an opportunity , on this fubject , to exercise their virtue . VER . 19 , 20 . Of Man ...
... most compassio- nate , on fome occafions , to reftrain their mirth : And that human crimes are fo fla- gitious , that the most candid have feldom an opportunity , on this fubject , to exercise their virtue . VER . 19 , 20 . Of Man ...
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... most logical support of all that had preceded . For the poet having , as we say , laboured through his epistle to prove , that every thing in the Universe tends , by a foreseen contrivance , and a prefent direction of all it's parts ...
... most logical support of all that had preceded . For the poet having , as we say , laboured through his epistle to prove , that every thing in the Universe tends , by a foreseen contrivance , and a prefent direction of all it's parts ...
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againſt Balaam becauſe beft beſt bleffing bleft blifs breaſt Cæfar Catiline caufe cauſe Dæmon defign deſtroy e'er eaſe EPISTLE ev'n ev'ry Expence faid fame fatire fave fecond fenfe ferves fhade fhall fhew fhould fince firft firſt Folly fome Fool foul ftate ftill ftrength fubject fuch fure fyftem guife Happineſs heart Heav'n himſelf itſelf juft juſt King knave laft laſt lefs leſs Lord Mankind mind moft Momus moſt muft muſt Nature Nature's NOTES numbers o'er obfervation Paffion Parterres pleaſe pleaſure poet pow'r praiſe prefent pride purpoſe purſue racters raiſe Reaſon reft rife ruling Angels SATIRE ſcarce Self-love Senfe ſhall ſhe ſhine ſkies ſtands ſtate ſtill ſtrong Tafte thee thefe theſe things thofe thoſe thou thouſand thro tion truth Twas Univerſal uſe VARIATIONS Vice Virtue Virtue's whofe whoſe wife Wiſdom YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY
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Página 37 - 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 102 - What conscience dictates to be done, Or warns me not to do, This teach me more than hell to shun, That more than heaven pursue.
Página 87 - 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.
Página 27 - KNOW then thyself, presume not God to scan, The proper study of mankind is Man. Placed 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...
Página 23 - 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.
Página 4 - 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.
Página 5 - 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.
Página 43 - Ask 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.
Página 87 - Heroes are much the same, the point's agreed, From Macedonia's madman to the Swede ; The whole strange purpose of their lives, to find Or make an enemy of all mankind!
Página 141 - That charm shall grow, while what fatigues the Ring, Flaunts and goes down, an unregarded thing...