The Works of Alexander Pope Esq, 3. köideA. Millar, J. and R. Tonson, H. Lintot, and C. Bathurst, 1757 |
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... those Virtues which they fed before . 60 And fure , the deadlieft Foe to Virtue's flame , Our worst of Evils , is perverted Shame . Beneath this load what abject numbers groan , Th ' entangled Slaves to folly not their own ! Meanly by ...
... those Virtues which they fed before . 60 And fure , the deadlieft Foe to Virtue's flame , Our worst of Evils , is perverted Shame . Beneath this load what abject numbers groan , Th ' entangled Slaves to folly not their own ! Meanly by ...
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... Those who only follow the blind guidance of their Paffions ; or those who leave behind them common sense and sober reason , in their high flights through the regions of Metaphyfics . Both which follies are expofed in the fourth epiftle ...
... Those who only follow the blind guidance of their Paffions ; or those who leave behind them common sense and sober reason , in their high flights through the regions of Metaphyfics . Both which follies are expofed in the fourth epiftle ...
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... those natural arguments , that it ftrengthens and fupports them . For if thofe evils , to which good men are fubject , be mere Disorders , without any tendency to the greater good of the whole ; then , though we muft indeed conclude ...
... those natural arguments , that it ftrengthens and fupports them . For if thofe evils , to which good men are fubject , be mere Disorders , without any tendency to the greater good of the whole ; then , though we muft indeed conclude ...
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... those mifcreants whom he afterwards ( Ep iii . 263. ) defcribes as building Hell on Spite , and Heaven on pride , he upbraids them ( from y 99 to 112. ) with the ex- ample of the poor Indian , to whom alfo Nature hath gi- ven this ...
... those mifcreants whom he afterwards ( Ep iii . 263. ) defcribes as building Hell on Spite , and Heaven on pride , he upbraids them ( from y 99 to 112. ) with the ex- ample of the poor Indian , to whom alfo Nature hath gi- ven this ...
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... those , in these acquit ? " In both , to reafon right is to submit . NOTES . VER . 155. If plagues , & c . ] What hath misled fome perfons in this paffage , is their fuppofing the comparison to be between the effects of two things in ...
... those , in these acquit ? " In both , to reafon right is to submit . NOTES . VER . 155. If plagues , & c . ] What hath misled fome perfons in this paffage , is their fuppofing the comparison to be between the effects of two things in ...
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