The Works of Alexander Pope Esq, 3. köideA. Millar, J. and R. Tonson, H. Lintot, and C. Bathurst, 1757 |
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... happiness The Universal Prayer The Dying Christian to his Soul MORAL ESSAYS . 123 171 175 EPISTLE I. Of the knowledge and characters of MEN 179 EPISTLE II . Of the characters of WOMEN 214 EPISTLE III . Of the use of RICHES 235 EPISTLE ...
... happiness The Universal Prayer The Dying Christian to his Soul MORAL ESSAYS . 123 171 175 EPISTLE I. Of the knowledge and characters of MEN 179 EPISTLE II . Of the characters of WOMEN 214 EPISTLE III . Of the use of RICHES 235 EPISTLE ...
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Alexander Pope. partly upon the hope of a future flate , that all his happiness in the present depends , 77 , & c . IV . The pride of aiming at more knowledge , and pretending to more perfection , the cause of Man's error and misery ...
Alexander Pope. partly upon the hope of a future flate , that all his happiness in the present depends , 77 , & c . IV . The pride of aiming at more knowledge , and pretending to more perfection , the cause of Man's error and misery ...
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... Happiness . The 10th , 11th , 12th , & c . have relation to the subjects of the books intended to follow , viz the Characters and Capa- NOTES . VER . 7,8 . A Wild , -Or Garden , ] The Wild relates to the human paffions , productive ( as ...
... Happiness . The 10th , 11th , 12th , & c . have relation to the subjects of the books intended to follow , viz the Characters and Capa- NOTES . VER . 7,8 . A Wild , -Or Garden , ] The Wild relates to the human paffions , productive ( as ...
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... Happiness are detected . The figure is taken from animal life . VER . 15. Laugh where we must , & c . ] Intimating that human follies are so strangely absurd , that it is not in the power of the most compassionate , on fome occafions ...
... Happiness are detected . The figure is taken from animal life . VER . 15. Laugh where we must , & c . ] Intimating that human follies are so strangely absurd , that it is not in the power of the most compassionate , on fome occafions ...
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... ; and from thence takes occafion to observe , that God is the equal master of all his creatures , and provides for the proper happiness of each and every of them . The lamb thy riot dooms to bleed to - day EP . I. ESSAY ON II MAN .
... ; and from thence takes occafion to observe , that God is the equal master of all his creatures , and provides for the proper happiness of each and every of them . The lamb thy riot dooms to bleed to - day EP . I. ESSAY ON II MAN .
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