The Works of Alexander Pope, Esq. in Six Volumes Complete: Imitations, moral essays, satires, etcC. Bathurst, 1787 |
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... principles , maxims , or precepts fo written , both strike the reader more ftrongly at firft , and are more eafily retained by him afterwards : The other may seem odd , but it is true ; I found I could exprefs them more fhortly this way ...
... principles , maxims , or precepts fo written , both strike the reader more ftrongly at firft , and are more eafily retained by him afterwards : The other may seem odd , but it is true ; I found I could exprefs them more fhortly this way ...
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... principle for the foundation of his Effay had afforded him and that is the expreffing himself ( as here ) in Platonic notions ; which , luckily for his purpose , are highly poetical , at the fame time that they add a grace to the ...
... principle for the foundation of his Effay had afforded him and that is the expreffing himself ( as here ) in Platonic notions ; which , luckily for his purpose , are highly poetical , at the fame time that they add a grace to the ...
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... Principles of Man , Self - love and Reafon , both necessary , ver . 53 , etc. Self - love the ftronger , and why ... Principle , and ascertain- ing our Virtue , ver . 177 . IV . Virtue and Vice joined in our mixed Nature ; the limits ...
... Principles of Man , Self - love and Reafon , both necessary , ver . 53 , etc. Self - love the ftronger , and why ... Principle , and ascertain- ing our Virtue , ver . 177 . IV . Virtue and Vice joined in our mixed Nature ; the limits ...
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... Principles in human nature reign ; Self - love , to urge , and Reason , to restrain ; Nor this a good , nor that a ... principle requires ; Active its task , it prompts , impels , infpires . Sedate and quiet the comparing lies , Form'd ...
... Principles in human nature reign ; Self - love , to urge , and Reason , to restrain ; Nor this a good , nor that a ... principle requires ; Active its task , it prompts , impels , infpires . Sedate and quiet the comparing lies , Form'd ...
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... principle of death ; The young disease , that muft fubdue at length , 135 Grows with his growth , and strengthens with his strengths So , caft and mingled with his very frame , The Mind's disease , its RULING PASSION Came ; Each vital ...
... principle of death ; The young disease , that muft fubdue at length , 135 Grows with his growth , and strengthens with his strengths So , caft and mingled with his very frame , The Mind's disease , its RULING PASSION Came ; Each vital ...
Términos y frases comunes
Balaam becauſe beft beſt bleffing bleft Cæfar caufe cauſe Characters Court Dunciad eaſe Epiftle ev'n ev'ry expreffion faid fame fatire fave feems fenfe ferve feven fhall fhew fhould fince fing firft firſt fmile Folly fome fool foul fpirit ftate ftill ftrong fubject fuch fuperior fure Genius grace heart Heav'n himſelf honour Horace imitation juft juſt King knave laft laſt Laws lefs Lord mankind moft moſt Mufe muft muſt Nature ne'er never NOTE numbers nunc o'er obferve Paffion perfon Pindar pleaſe pleaſure Poet pow'r praiſe pride profe purpoſe Pythagorea quae quid quod racter Reafon reft rife rifu ruling Angels Sappho Satire Senfe ſhall ſhe ſtate ſtill tafte thee thefe theſe thing thofe thoſe thou thouſand thro Truth uſe VARIATION verfe Vice Virtue whofe whoſe wife worfe
Pasajes populares
Página 52 - Suns run lawless thro' the sky; Let ruling Angels from their spheres be hurl'd, Being on Being wreck'd, and world on world ; Heav'n's whole foundations to their centre nod, 255 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 55 - 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 92 - 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 136 - Pleasures the sex, as children Birds, pursue, Still out of reach, yet never out of view; Sure, if they catch, to spoil the Toy at most, To covet flying, and regret when lost: At last, to follies Youth could scarce defend...
Página 70 - 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 91 - I'll tell you, friend! a wise man and a fool. You'll find, if once the monarch acts the monk, Or, cobbler-like, the parson will be drunk, Worth makes the man, and want of it, the fellow; The rest is all but leather or prunella.
Página 43 - Awake, my St. John! leave all meaner things To low ambition, and the pride of kings. Let us (since life can little more supply Than just to look about us and to die) Expatiate free o'er all this scene of man; A mighty maze! but not without a plan; A wild, where weeds and flowers promiscuous shoot; Or garden tempting with forbidden fruit.
Página 74 - 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 44 - 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 187 - And born to write, converse, and live with ease: Should such a man, too fond to rule alone, Bear, like the Turk, no brother near the throne...