The Works of Alexander Pope: PoetryJ. Murray, 1871 |
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Alexander Pope. AN ESSAY ON MAN , IN FOUR EPISTLES ΤΟ HENRY ST . JOHN , LORD BOLINGBROKE . WRITTEN IN THE YEAR 1732 . AN ESSAY ON MAN . - ADDRESSED TO A FRIEND $ 2 - ESSAY ON MAN.
Alexander Pope. AN ESSAY ON MAN , IN FOUR EPISTLES ΤΟ HENRY ST . JOHN , LORD BOLINGBROKE . WRITTEN IN THE YEAR 1732 . AN ESSAY ON MAN . - ADDRESSED TO A FRIEND $ 2 - ESSAY ON MAN.
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... Lord Bolingbroke , to Lord Paget , and in short to everybody but to him who was capable of writing it . While several of his acquaintances read the Essay on Man as the work of an unknown author , they fairly owned they did not under ...
... Lord Bolingbroke , to Lord Paget , and in short to everybody but to him who was capable of writing it . While several of his acquaintances read the Essay on Man as the work of an unknown author , they fairly owned they did not under ...
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... Lord Bathurst . Dr. Hugh Blair dined with him in 1763 , and says in a letter to Boswell , that " the conversation turning on Mr. Pope , Lord Bathurst told us that the Essay on Man was originally composed by Lord Bolingbroke in prose ...
... Lord Bathurst . Dr. Hugh Blair dined with him in 1763 , and says in a letter to Boswell , that " the conversation turning on Mr. Pope , Lord Bathurst told us that the Essay on Man was originally composed by Lord Bolingbroke in prose ...
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... Lord Bathurst repeatedly assured me that he had read the whole scheme of the Essay on Man , in the handwriting of Bolingbroke , and drawn up in a series of propositions , which Pope was to amplify , versify , and illustrate . It has ...
... Lord Bathurst repeatedly assured me that he had read the whole scheme of the Essay on Man , in the handwriting of Bolingbroke , and drawn up in a series of propositions , which Pope was to amplify , versify , and illustrate . It has ...
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... Lord Bolingbroke speaks of with such abundant partiality is a system of ethics in the Horatian way . " Bolingbroke's comparison of the work to Horace , and Pope's phrase " the Horatian way , " show that they spoke of the Moral Essays ...
... Lord Bolingbroke speaks of with such abundant partiality is a system of ethics in the Horatian way . " Bolingbroke's comparison of the work to Horace , and Pope's phrase " the Horatian way , " show that they spoke of the Moral Essays ...
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Page 462 - To know but this, that Thou art good, And that myself am blind; Yet gave me, in this dark estate, To see the good from ill; And binding Nature fast in fate, Left free the human will. What conscience dictates to be done, Or warns me not to do, This, teach me more than Hell to shun, That, more than Heaven pursue.
Page 424 - For modes of faith let graceless zealots fight; His can't be wrong whose life is in the right : In faith and hope the world will disagree, But all mankind's concern is charity : All must be false that thwart this one great end ; And all of God, that bless mankind or mend.
Page 491 - Honour and shame from no condition rise ; Act well your part, there all the honour lies.
Page 356 - Where slaves once more their native land behold, No fiends torment, no Christians thirst for gold. To be, contents his natural desire; He asks no .angel's wing, no seraph's fire ; But thinks, admitted to that equal sky, His faithful dog shall bear him company.
Page 365 - Great wits are sure to madness near allied; And thin partitions do their bounds divide: Else why should he, with wealth and honour blest, Refuse his age the needful hours of rest?
Page 153 - Favours to none, to all she smiles extends ; Oft she rejects, but never once offends. Bright as the sun, her eyes the gazers strike, And like the sun, they shine on all alike. Yet graceful ease, and sweetness void of pride, Might hide her faults if belles had faults to hide : If to her share some female errors fall, Look on her face and you'll forget 'em all.
Page 207 - What might this be? A thousand fantasies Begin to throng into my memory, Of calling shapes and beckoning shadows dire, And airy tongues that syllable men's names On sands and shores and desert wildernesses.
Page 142 - And therefore it was ever thought to have some participation of divineness, because it doth raise and erect the mind, by submitting the shows of things to the desires of the mind ; whereas reason doth buckle and bow the mind unto the nature of things.
Page 363 - Why has not Man a microscopic eye? For this plain reason, Man is not a Fly. Say what the use, were finer optics giv'n, T' inspect a mite, not comprehend the heav'n? Or touch, if tremblingly alive all o'er, To smart and agonize at ev'ry pore? Or quick effluvia darting thro' the brain, Die of a rose in aromatic pain?
Page 393 - Vice is a monster of so frightful mien, As, to be hated, needs but to be seen ; Yet seen too oft, familiar with her face, We first endure, then pity, then embrace.