The Works of Alexander Pope, Esq. ...: Moral essaysJ. and P. Knapton, 1751 |
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... Follies , Vices , and Miferies , * 61. It is the Work of Satire to rectify this Paf- fion , to reduce it to its proper Channel , and to con- vert it into an Incentive to Wisdom and Virtue , 89 . Hence it appears , that Satire may ...
... Follies , Vices , and Miferies , * 61. It is the Work of Satire to rectify this Paf- fion , to reduce it to its proper Channel , and to con- vert it into an Incentive to Wisdom and Virtue , 89 . Hence it appears , that Satire may ...
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... follies are expofed in the fourth epiftle , where the popular and philosophical errors concerning Happiness are spoken of . The figure here is taken from animal life . VER . 15. Laugh where we muft , & c . ] Intimating 20 that human follies ...
... follies are expofed in the fourth epiftle , where the popular and philosophical errors concerning Happiness are spoken of . The figure here is taken from animal life . VER . 15. Laugh where we muft , & c . ] Intimating 20 that human follies ...
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... follies , which he supposes to arife from the cause here affign- ed . - Nihil eft quod nos fal- lat , nihil quod nobis pollice- atur fpes caffas ( id quod no- bis a quibufdam dicitur viris immoderata fui opinione fub- latis ) animas ...
... follies , which he supposes to arife from the cause here affign- ed . - Nihil eft quod nos fal- lat , nihil quod nobis pollice- atur fpes caffas ( id quod no- bis a quibufdam dicitur viris immoderata fui opinione fub- latis ) animas ...
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... follies and our fins , Here honeft Nature ends as she begins . Old Politicians chew on wisdom past , And totter on in bus'nefs to the last ; - NOTES . VER . 213. a noble | mourously called boneft , as Dame a whare , ] The fifter of Cato ...
... follies and our fins , Here honeft Nature ends as she begins . Old Politicians chew on wisdom past , And totter on in bus'nefs to the last ; - NOTES . VER . 213. a noble | mourously called boneft , as Dame a whare , ] The fifter of Cato ...
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... follies and vices of men to general good . VER . 157 : " Yet Cloe fure , & c . ] The purpose of the poet in this Character is important : It is to fhew that the politic or prudent government of the paffions is not enough to make a ...
... follies and vices of men to general good . VER . 157 : " Yet Cloe fure , & c . ] The purpose of the poet in this Character is important : It is to fhew that the politic or prudent government of the paffions is not enough to make a ...
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againſt Balaam beft beſt bleffing bleft blifs bluſh breaſt Cæfar Catiline caufe cauſe Dæmon defign deſtroy e'er eaſe EPISTLE ev'n ev'ry Expence faid fame fatire fave fecond fenfe fhall fhew fhine fince firft firſt Folly fome Fool foul ftate ftill ftrong fubject fuch fure fyftem give guife Happineſs heart Heav'n himſelf inftance itſelf juft juſt King knave laft laſt lefs leſs Lord Mankind mind moft moſt muft muſt Nature Nature's NOTES numbers o'er obfervation OURSELVES TO KNOW Paffion Parterres pleaſure poet pow'r praiſe prefent pride purpoſe purſue racters raiſe Reaſon reft rife riſe ruling Angels ſcarce ſee Self-love Senfe ſenſe ſhall ſhe ſhould ſmile ſtands ſtate ſtill Tafte taſte thee thefe theſe things thofe thoſe thou thouſand thro tion truth Twas Univerſal uſe VARIATIONS Vice Virtue Virtue's whofe whoſe wife Wiſdom
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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 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 27 - The proper study of mankind is Man. Plac'd 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; 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 18 - Were we to press, inferior might on ours; Or in the full creation leave a void, Where, one step broken, the great scale's destroy'd: From Nature's chain whatever link you strike, Tenth, or ten thousandth, breaks the chain alike. And, if each system in gradation roll Alike essential to th' amazing whole, The least confusion but in one, not all That system only, but the whole must fall.
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 42 - 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 15 - Mark how it mounts to man's imperial race, From the green myriads in the peopled...
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 187 - Consult the Genius of the Place in all; That tells the Waters or to rise, or fall; Or helps th...
Página 9 - Lo, the poor Indian! whose untutor'd mind Sees God in clouds, or hears him in the wind; His soul, proud science never taught to stray Far as the solar walk, or milky way...