The works of Alexander Pope. Containing the principal notes of drs. Warburton and Warton [&c.]. To which are added, some original letters, with additional observations, and memoirs, by W.L. Bowles, Volume 31806 |
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... never imagine you were fo deep in morals , or that fo many and excellent rules could be produced fo advantageoufly and agreeably in that fcience , from any one head . I confefs in fome places I was forced to read twice . I believe I ...
... never imagine you were fo deep in morals , or that fo many and excellent rules could be produced fo advantageoufly and agreeably in that fcience , from any one head . I confefs in fome places I was forced to read twice . I believe I ...
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... never so happily disguised as in this Effay ; the reader feels his mind full , though he learns nothing ; and , when he meets it in its new array , no longer knows the talk of his mother and his nurse . " WARTON . is The difference ...
... never so happily disguised as in this Effay ; the reader feels his mind full , though he learns nothing ; and , when he meets it in its new array , no longer knows the talk of his mother and his nurse . " WARTON . is The difference ...
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... never Is , but always To be blest . The foul , uneafy and confin'd , from home , Refts and expatiates in a life to come . Lo , the poor Indian whofe untutor'd mind Sees God in clouds , or hears him in the wind ; 95 100 His VARIATIONS ...
... never Is , but always To be blest . The foul , uneafy and confin'd , from home , Refts and expatiates in a life to come . Lo , the poor Indian whofe untutor'd mind Sees God in clouds , or hears him in the wind ; 95 100 His VARIATIONS ...
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Alexander Pope William Lisle Bowles. His foul , proud Science never taught to stray Far as the folar walk , or milky way ; Yet COMMENTARY . is so far from excluding any part of his own fpecies ( a vice which could proceed only from the ...
Alexander Pope William Lisle Bowles. His foul , proud Science never taught to stray Far as the folar walk , or milky way ; Yet COMMENTARY . is so far from excluding any part of his own fpecies ( a vice which could proceed only from the ...
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... never existed ? Where had been agriculture , architecture , medicine , weaving , with a thou- fand other arts , too many to enumerate , had man been born a felf- fufficient animal , fuperior to the fenfations of want or evil ? Where had ...
... never existed ? Where had been agriculture , architecture , medicine , weaving , with a thou- fand other arts , too many to enumerate , had man been born a felf- fufficient animal , fuperior to the fenfations of want or evil ? Where had ...
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abfurd againſt anſwer Author beauty becauſe beſt bleffing Cæfar caufe cauſe character COMMENTARY confequence confifts defign deſcribed Effay Epiftle ev'ry evil expreffion faid falſe fame fatire fays fecond feems fenfe fhall fhews fince firft firſt folly fome fool foul ftate ftill fubject fublime fuch fuppofed fupport fure fyftem give greateſt Happineſs hath Heav'n himſelf honour human illuftrate inftance itſelf juft juſt laft laſt lefs Lord Lord Hervey Lordship Lucretius mankind miſtake moft moral moſt muft muſt Nature neceffary NOTES obferved occafion paffage perfon Philofopher Plato pleaſe pleaſure Poet Pope pow'r praiſe prefent pride publiſhed purpoſe racters raiſe Reaſon refpect Ruling Paffion Sappho ſays ſee Self-love Senfe ſhall ſhe ſhould ſome ſpeaks ſtate ſtill ſuch ſyſtem Tafte taſte thefe themſelves theſe things thofe thoſe thou thouſand truth univerſal uſe verfe verſe Vice Virtue WARBURTON WARTON whofe whole whoſe wiſdom
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Página 341 - His gardens next your admiration call; On every side you look, behold the wall! No pleasing intricacies intervene, No artful wildness to perplex the scene ; Grove nods at grove, each alley has a brother, And half the platform just reflects the other.
Página 65 - 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!
Página 48 - Planets and suns run lawless through the sky ; Let ruling angels from their spheres be hurl'd, Being on being wreck'd, and world on world ; Heaven's whole foundations to their centre nod, And Nature trembles to the throne- of God. All this dread order break — for whom ? for thee ? Vile worm ! —oh madness ! pride ! impiety ! IX.
Página 56 - All discord, harmony not understood ; All partial evil, universal good : And, spite of pride, in erring reason's spite, One truth is clear, WHATEVER is, is RIGHT.
Página 50 - 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 115 - 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.
Página 87 - Fools ! who from hence into the notion fall, That vice or virtue there is none at all. If white and black blend, soften, and unite A thousand ways, is there no black or white ? Ask your own heart, and nothing is so plain ; 'Tis to mistake them, costs the time and pain.
Página 119 - Go, from the creatures thy instructions take: Learn from the birds what food the thickets yield ; Learn from the beasts the physic of the field; Thy arts of building from the bee receive ; Learn of the mole to plough, the worm to weave; Learn of the little nautilus to sail, Spread the thin oar, and catch the driving gale.
Página 152 - But mutual wants this happiness increase, All nature's difference keeps all nature's peace. Condition, circumstance, is not the thing, Bliss is the same in subject or in king; In who obtain defence, or who defend, In him who is, or him who finds a friend : Heaven breathes through every member of the whole One common blessing as one common soul.
Página 21 - When the proud steed shall know why man restrains His fiery course, or drives him o'er the plains; When the dull ox, why now he breaks the clod, Is now a victim, and now Egypt's god: Then shall man's pride and dulness comprehend His actions', passions', being's use and end; Why doing, sufFring, check'd, impell'd; and why This hour a slave, the next a deity.