The Works of Alexander Pope Esq: In Nine Volumes Complete. With His Last Corrections, Additions, and Improvements; ... Together with the Commentary and Notes of Mr. Warbuton, 3. köideJ. and P. Knapton, H. Lintot, J. and R. Tonson and S. Draper, and C. Bathurst, 1752 |
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... acts the faithful Surgeon's part ; Gen'rous and kind tho ' painful is her art : With caution bold , fhe only strikes to heal ; Tho ' folly raves to break the friendly steel . Then fure no fault impartial SATIRE knows , 165 Kind ev'n in ...
... acts the faithful Surgeon's part ; Gen'rous and kind tho ' painful is her art : With caution bold , fhe only strikes to heal ; Tho ' folly raves to break the friendly steel . Then fure no fault impartial SATIRE knows , 165 Kind ev'n in ...
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... acts fecond to some sphere unknown , Touches fome wheel , or verges to fome goal ; Tis but a part we fee , and not a whole . When the proud fteed shall know why Man reftrains His firey course , or drives him o'er the plains ; COMMENTARY ...
... acts fecond to some sphere unknown , Touches fome wheel , or verges to fome goal ; Tis but a part we fee , and not a whole . When the proud fteed shall know why Man reftrains His firey course , or drives him o'er the plains ; COMMENTARY ...
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... acts by ge- neral , and not by particular laws , and that the course of matter and motion must be neceffarily fubject to fome irregularities , be- caufe nothing is created perfect . I then afk why you fhould expect this perfection in ...
... acts by ge- neral , and not by particular laws , and that the course of matter and motion must be neceffarily fubject to fome irregularities , be- caufe nothing is created perfect . I then afk why you fhould expect this perfection in ...
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... Acts not by partial , but by gen'ral laws ; " Th'exceptions few ; fome change fince all began : " And what created perfect ? " - Why then Man ? If the great end be human Happiness , Then Nature deviates ; and can Man do lefs ? 150 As ...
... Acts not by partial , but by gen'ral laws ; " Th'exceptions few ; fome change fince all began : " And what created perfect ? " - Why then Man ? If the great end be human Happiness , Then Nature deviates ; and can Man do lefs ? 150 As ...
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... act or think beyond mankind No pow'rs of body or of foul to share , But what his nature and his ftate can bear . 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 ...
... act or think beyond mankind No pow'rs of body or of foul to share , But what his nature and his ftate can bear . 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 ...
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