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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... bleffing now . Hope springs eternal in the human breast : Man never Is , but always To be blest : VARIATIONS . In the first Fol . and Quarto , What blifs above he gives not thee to know , But gives that Hope to be thy bliss below ...
... bleffing now . Hope springs eternal in the human breast : Man never Is , but always To be blest : VARIATIONS . In the first Fol . and Quarto , What blifs above he gives not thee to know , But gives that Hope to be thy bliss below ...
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... bleffing find ) Is not to 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 ...
... bleffing find ) Is not to 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 ...
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... bleffing of his luxury , That very life his learned hunger craves , He faves from famine , from the favage faves ; Nay , feasts the animal he dooms his feast , And , ' till he ends the being , makes it blest ; COMMENTARY . 65 effects to ...
... bleffing of his luxury , That very life his learned hunger craves , He faves from famine , from the favage faves ; Nay , feasts the animal he dooms his feast , And , ' till he ends the being , makes it blest ; COMMENTARY . 65 effects to ...
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... bleffing Individuals find , But fome way leans and hearkens to the kind : 40 No Bandit fierce , no Tyrant mad with pride , No cavern'd Hermit , refts felf - fatisfy'd : Who most to shun or hate Mankind pretend , Seek an admirer , or ...
... bleffing Individuals find , But fome way leans and hearkens to the kind : 40 No Bandit fierce , no Tyrant mad with pride , No cavern'd Hermit , refts felf - fatisfy'd : Who most to shun or hate Mankind pretend , Seek an admirer , or ...
Page 128
... bleffing , as one common foul . But Fortune's gifts if each alike possest , And each were equal , must not all contest ? If then to all Men Happiness was meant , God in Externals could not place Content . Fortune her gifts may variously ...
... bleffing , as one common foul . But Fortune's gifts if each alike possest , And each were equal , must not all contest ? If then to all Men Happiness was meant , God in Externals could not place Content . Fortune her gifts may variously ...
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