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Man's superior part Uncheck'd may rise , and climb from art to art ; But when his own great work is but begun , What reason weaves , by passion is undone . Trace science then , with modesty thy guide ; First strip off all her equipage ...
Man's superior part Uncheck'd may rise , and climb from art to art ; But when his own great work is but begun , What reason weaves , by passion is undone . Trace science then , with modesty thy guide ; First strip off all her equipage ...
Page 216
Reason still use , to reason still attend . Attention , habit and experience gains ; Each strengthens reason , and self - love restrains . Let subtle schoolmen teach these friends to fight , More studious to divide than to unite ...
Reason still use , to reason still attend . Attention , habit and experience gains ; Each strengthens reason , and self - love restrains . Let subtle schoolmen teach these friends to fight , More studious to divide than to unite ...
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But if , by Fate's decrees , you owe your birth To some most barren and penurious earth , Where , ev'ry comfort of this life denied , Her real wants are scantily supplied , Where pow'r is reason , liberty a joke , Laws never made ...
But if , by Fate's decrees , you owe your birth To some most barren and penurious earth , Where , ev'ry comfort of this life denied , Her real wants are scantily supplied , Where pow'r is reason , liberty a joke , Laws never made ...
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Contents
MATTHEW PRIOR I | 1 |
If wine and music | 7 |
The Female Phaeton | 15 |
Copyright | |
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Bibliographic information
| Title | English Poetry of the Eighteenth Century |
| Editor | Cecil Albert Moore |
| Publisher | H. Holt, 1935 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 2 Sep 2006 |
| Length | 942 pages |
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