An Essay on the Genius and Writings of Pope, Volume 2J. Dodsley, 1782 |
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Page 81
... passion tost , And in the shoreless sea of folly loft ; But thou , what vice disorders , canft compose , And profit by the malice of thy foes ; So blending good with evil , fair with foul , As thence to model one harmonious WHOLE . 21 ...
... passion tost , And in the shoreless sea of folly loft ; But thou , what vice disorders , canft compose , And profit by the malice of thy foes ; So blending good with evil , fair with foul , As thence to model one harmonious WHOLE . 21 ...
Page 84
... Passions , tho ' selfish , if their means. * Hutcheson's Nature and Conduct of the Paffions , pag . 174 . 24. Paffions , * From note pag . 325 to pag . 331 I 84 ESSAY ON THE GENIUS is not indeed any part of knowledge which ...
... Passions , tho ' selfish , if their means. * Hutcheson's Nature and Conduct of the Paffions , pag . 174 . 24. Paffions , * From note pag . 325 to pag . 331 I 84 ESSAY ON THE GENIUS is not indeed any part of knowledge which ...
Page 85
... Passions , that court an aim , is furely a strange expreffion . 25. In lazy apathy let Stoics boaft Their virtue fix'd ! ' tis fix'd as in a frost ; Contracted all , retiring to the breast ; The strength of mind is exercise , not reft 1 ...
... Passions , that court an aim , is furely a strange expreffion . 25. In lazy apathy let Stoics boaft Their virtue fix'd ! ' tis fix'd as in a frost ; Contracted all , retiring to the breast ; The strength of mind is exercise , not reft 1 ...
Page 88
... passions for the strong t . * The Pleasures of Imagination , Book iii . v . 546 , + Ver . 157 . THIS is from the Duke de la Rochefou- cault . THIS 88 ESSAY ON THE GENIUS fiafm, supported by a more figurative stile, ...
... passions for the strong t . * The Pleasures of Imagination , Book iii . v . 546 , + Ver . 157 . THIS is from the Duke de la Rochefou- cault . THIS 88 ESSAY ON THE GENIUS fiafm, supported by a more figurative stile, ...
Page 89
... passions it is more owing to their weakness than our own strength . And again , there is in the heart of man a ... passions , such as ambition and love , are able to tri- umph over the other passions . Laziness , as languid as it ...
... passions it is more owing to their weakness than our own strength . And again , there is in the heart of man a ... passions , such as ambition and love , are able to tri- umph over the other passions . Laziness , as languid as it ...
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