The works of Alexander Pope, with notes and illustrations, by himself and others. To which are added, a new life of the author [&c.] by W. Roscoe, 4. köide1847 |
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... pride of aiming at more knowledge , and pretending to more perfection , the cause of Man's error and misery . The impiety of putting himself in the place of God , and judging of the fitness or unfitness , perfection or imperfection ...
... pride of aiming at more knowledge , and pretending to more perfection , the cause of Man's error and misery . The impiety of putting himself in the place of God , and judging of the fitness or unfitness , perfection or imperfection ...
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... pride of kings . COMMENTARY . THE opening of this Poem [ in fifteen lines ] is taken up in giving an account of the subject ; which , agreeably to the title , is an ESSAY on MAN , or a Philosophical Inquiry into his Nature and End , his ...
... pride of kings . COMMENTARY . THE opening of this Poem [ in fifteen lines ] is taken up in giving an account of the subject ; which , agreeably to the title , is an ESSAY on MAN , or a Philosophical Inquiry into his Nature and End , his ...
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... pride and dulness comprehend His actions ' , passions ' , being's , use and end ; Why doing , suffering ; check'd , impell'd ; and why This hour a slave , the next a deity . Then say not Man's imperfect , Heav'n in fault ; Say rather ...
... pride and dulness comprehend His actions ' , passions ' , being's , use and end ; Why doing , suffering ; check'd , impell'd ; and why This hour a slave , the next a deity . Then say not Man's imperfect , Heav'n in fault ; Say rather ...
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... pride , he upbraids them ( from ver . 98 to 113 ) with the example of the poor Indian , to whom also Nature hath given this common HOPE of Mankind : but though his un- tutored mind had betrayed him into many childish fancies concerning ...
... pride , he upbraids them ( from ver . 98 to 113 ) with the example of the poor Indian , to whom also Nature hath given this common HOPE of Mankind : but though his un- tutored mind had betrayed him into many childish fancies concerning ...
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... pride only that makes you think yourself ill - treated , and induces you to look for another and more perfect state . Bolingbroke is for ever repeating the same note , & c . ” — Warton . [ Whatever VOL . IV . D Snatch from his hand the ...
... pride only that makes you think yourself ill - treated , and induces you to look for another and more perfect state . Bolingbroke is for ever repeating the same note , & c . ” — Warton . [ Whatever VOL . IV . D Snatch from his hand the ...
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Page 425 - For modes of faith let graceless zealots fight; His can't be wrong whose life is in the right...
Page 48 - Lives through all life, extends through all extent, Spreads undivided, operates unspent: Breathes in our soul, informs our mortal part, As full, as perfect, in a hair as heart; As full, as perfect, in vile man that mourns, As the rapt seraph that adores and burns: To him no high, no low, no great, no small; He fills, he bounds, connects, and equals all.
Page 340 - Bear, like the Turk, no brother near the throne, View him with scornful, yet with jealous eyes, And hate for arts that caused himself to rise; Damn with faint praise, assent with civil leer, And without sneering, teach the rest to sneer...
Page 284 - His gardens next your admiration call; On every side you look, behold the wall! No pleasing intricacies intervene, No artful wildness to perplex the scene ; Grove nods at grove, each alley has a brother, And half the platform just reflects the other.
Page 23 - 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!
Page 34 - In Pride, in reas'ning Pride, our error lies; All quit their sphere, and rush into the skies. Pride still is aiming at the blest abodes, Men would be Angels, Angels would be Gods. Aspiring to be Gods, if Angels fell, Aspiring to be Angels, Men rebel: And who but wishes to invert the laws Of Order, sins against th
Page 97 - Praise ye him, sun and moon : Praise him, all ye stars of light. Praise him, ye heavens of heavens, And ye waters that be above the heavens. Let them praise the name of the LORD: For he commanded, and they were created.
Page 54 - All Nature is but art, unknown to thee All chance, direction, which thou canst not see; All discord, harmony not understood; All partial evil, universal good: And, spite of pride, in erring reason's spite, One truth is clear, Whatever is, is right.
Page 30 - The lamb thy riot dooms to bleed to-day, Had he thy reason, would he skip and play? Pleased to the last, he crops the flowery food, And licks the hand just raised to shed his blood.
Page 43 - What modes of sight betwixt each wide extreme, The mole's dim curtain, and the lynx's beam : Of smell, the headlong lioness between, And hound sagacious on the tainted green : Of hearing, from the life that fills the flood, To that which warbles through the vernal wood ? The spider's touch, how exquisitely fine ! Feels at each thread, and lives along the line : In the nice bee, what sense so subtly true From pois'nous herbs extracts the healing dew?