The Works of Alexander Pope Esq, 3. köideA. Millar, J. and R. Tonson, H. Lintot, and C. Bathurst, 1757 |
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... Flame , To urge Mankind on Deeds that merit Fame : But Man , vain Man , in folly only wife , Rejects the Manna fent him from the Skies : 40 With rapture hears corrupted Paffion's call , Still proudly prone vi Part I. ESSAY ON SATIRE .
... Flame , To urge Mankind on Deeds that merit Fame : But Man , vain Man , in folly only wife , Rejects the Manna fent him from the Skies : 40 With rapture hears corrupted Paffion's call , Still proudly prone vi Part I. ESSAY ON SATIRE .
Page vii
... still her Dictates work in ev'ry heart . Each Pow'r that fov'reign Nature bids enjoy , 45 50 55 Man may corrupt , but Man can ne'er destroy , Like mighty rivers , with refiftlefs force The Paffions rage , obftructed in their courfe ...
... still her Dictates work in ev'ry heart . Each Pow'r that fov'reign Nature bids enjoy , 45 50 55 Man may corrupt , but Man can ne'er destroy , Like mighty rivers , with refiftlefs force The Paffions rage , obftructed in their courfe ...
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... still is aiming at the bleft abodes , Men would be Angels , Angels would be Gods . Afpiring to be Gods , if Angels fell , Afpiring to be Angels , Men rebel : And who but wishes to invert the laws 125 Of ORDER , fins against th ' Eternal ...
... still is aiming at the bleft abodes , Men would be Angels , Angels would be Gods . Afpiring to be Gods , if Angels fell , Afpiring to be Angels , Men rebel : And who but wishes to invert the laws 125 Of ORDER , fins against th ' Eternal ...
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... still The whifp'ring Zephyr , and the purling rill ? Who finds not Providence all good and wife , Alike in what it gives , and what denies ? VII . Far as Creation's ample range extends , The scale of fenfual , mental pow'rs afcends ...
... still The whifp'ring Zephyr , and the purling rill ? Who finds not Providence all good and wife , Alike in what it gives , and what denies ? VII . Far as Creation's ample range extends , The scale of fenfual , mental pow'rs afcends ...
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... still worse ; for the force of the argument depends upon it's being faid seriously ; the Poet being here fpeaking of a scale from the highest to the lowest in the mundane System . 215 Of fmell , the headlong lionefs between , And EP . I ...
... still worse ; for the force of the argument depends upon it's being faid seriously ; the Poet being here fpeaking of a scale from the highest to the lowest in the mundane System . 215 Of fmell , the headlong lionefs between , And EP . I ...
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