Essay on Man, Epistles I.-IV.Macmillan, 1899 - 93 páginas |
No interior do livro
Resultados 1-5 de 7
Página 8
... gen'ral laws ; Th ' exceptions few ; some change since all began ; And what created perfect ? ' - Why then man ? If the great end be human happiness , Then nature deviates ; and can man do less ? As much that end a constant course ...
... gen'ral laws ; Th ' exceptions few ; some change since all began ; And what created perfect ? ' - Why then man ? If the great end be human happiness , Then nature deviates ; and can man do less ? As much that end a constant course ...
Página 9
... gen'ral order , since the whole began , Is kept in nature , and is kept in man . 170 What would this man ? Now upward will he soar , And little less than angel , would be more ; Now looking downwards , just as griev'd appears To want ...
... gen'ral order , since the whole began , Is kept in nature , and is kept in man . 170 What would this man ? Now upward will he soar , And little less than angel , would be more ; Now looking downwards , just as griev'd appears To want ...
Página 11
... gen'ral frame ; Just as absurd , to mourn the tasks or pains The great directing Mind of all ordains . meation I had to the pantion All are but parts of one stupendous whole , Whose body nature is , and God the soul ; That , chang'd ...
... gen'ral frame ; Just as absurd , to mourn the tasks or pains The great directing Mind of all ordains . meation I had to the pantion All are but parts of one stupendous whole , Whose body nature is , and God the soul ; That , chang'd ...
Página 24
... gen'ral good . See dying vegetables life sustain , See life dissolving vegetate again : All forms that perish other forms supply , ( By turns we catch the vital breath , and die ) Like bubbles on the sea of matter born , They rise ...
... gen'ral good . See dying vegetables life sustain , See life dissolving vegetate again : All forms that perish other forms supply , ( By turns we catch the vital breath , and die ) Like bubbles on the sea of matter born , They rise ...
Página 28
... gen'ral groan , Murders their species , and betrays his own . But just disease to luxury succeeds , And ev'ry death its own avenger breeds ; The fury - passions from that blood began , And turn'd on man a fiercer savage , man . 140 150 ...
... gen'ral groan , Murders their species , and betrays his own . But just disease to luxury succeeds , And ev'ry death its own avenger breeds ; The fury - passions from that blood began , And turn'd on man a fiercer savage , man . 140 150 ...
Palavras e frases frequentes
alliteration ancient atoms Bacon beast blessing blest bliss Bolingbroke Cæsar called Catiline Cicero common creature death Decius DEIGHTON Democritus divine doctors of divinity doctrine Dryden Dunciad earth Elwin English Epicureans Epistle Essay Essay on Criticism eternal Ev'n ev'ry fame father fix'd flamen fool forms French gen'ral giv'n Greek happiness Heav'n honour hope human humours imitation instinct int'rest Johnson Julius Cæsar kind kings Latin laws living Lord man's mankind means Merchant of Venice MICHAEL MACMILLAN Milton mind Moivre moral nature nature's never Newton nice o'er pain Paradise Lost passage passion philosophers plant Plato pleasure Plotinus poem poet poetry Pope Pope wrote Pope's pow'r pride reason Roman says Self-love and social sense sewed Shakspere Socrates soul sphere Stoics stork thee things Thomson thou thro throne tyrants verb vice virtue W. T. WEBB weak whole wise word
Passagens conhecidas
Página 12 - Cease then, nor order imperfection name; Our proper bliss depends on what we blame. Know thy own point: this kind this due degree Of blindness, weakness, Heav'n bestows on thee. Submit. — In this, or any other sphere, Secure to be as blest as thou canst bear: Safe in the hand of one disposing Power, Or in the natal, or the mortal hour.
Página 9 - Why has not man a microscopic eye? For this plain reason, man is not a fly. Say what the use, were finer optics giv'n, T...
Página 8 - Annual for me, the grape, the rose renew The juice nectareous, and the balmy dew; For me, the mine a thousand treasures brings; For me, health gushes from a thousand springs; Seas roll to waft me, suns to light me rise; My foot-stool earth, my canopy the skies.
Página 7 - 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 - Two principles in human nature reign; Self-love, to urge, and reason, to restrain; Nor this a good, nor that a bad we call, Each works its end, to move or govern all: And to their proper operation still Ascribe all good; to their improper, ill.
Página xi - Me, let the tender office long engage, To rock the cradle of reposing age, With lenient arts extend a mother's breath. Make languor smile, and smooth the bed of death, Explore the thought, explain the asking eye, And keep awhile one parent from the sky ! On cares like these if length of days attend.
Página 42 - Is hung on high, to poison half mankind. All fame is foreign but of true desert, Plays round the head, but comes not to the heart : One...
Página 5 - Why form'd no weaker, blinder, and no less? Ask of thy mother earth, why oaks are made Taller or stronger than the weeds they shade? Or ask of yonder argent fields above, Why JOVE'S Satellites are less than JOVE?
Página 18 - 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...
Página 5 - Tis ours to trace him only in our own. He, who through vast immensity can pierce, See worlds on worlds compose one universe, Observe how system into system runs, What other planets circle other suns, What varied being peoples every star, May tell why heav'n has made us as we are.