The Works of Alexander Pope, Esq: Moral essaysJ. and P. Knapton, 1752 |
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Alexander Pope. Can fee each Virtue and each Grace unite , And taste the Raptures of a pure Delight ; You vifit oft his awful Page with Care , And view that bright Affemblage treasur'd there ; You trace the Chain that links his deep ...
Alexander Pope. Can fee each Virtue and each Grace unite , And taste the Raptures of a pure Delight ; You vifit oft his awful Page with Care , And view that bright Affemblage treasur'd there ; You trace the Chain that links his deep ...
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... tastes the good without the fall to ill ; Where only Merit conftant pay receives , Is bleft in what it takes , and what it gives ; COMMENTARY . VER . 309. Know then this Truth , & c . ] Having thus at length fhewn that Happinefs ...
... tastes the good without the fall to ill ; Where only Merit conftant pay receives , Is bleft in what it takes , and what it gives ; COMMENTARY . VER . 309. Know then this Truth , & c . ] Having thus at length fhewn that Happinefs ...
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... Taste refin'd , Th'Address , the Delicacy --- ftoops at once , And makes her hearty meal upon a Dunce . Flavia's a Wit , has too much fenfe to Pray ; To toaft our wants and wishes , is her way ; Nor afks of God , but of her Stars , to ...
... Taste refin'd , Th'Address , the Delicacy --- ftoops at once , And makes her hearty meal upon a Dunce . Flavia's a Wit , has too much fenfe to Pray ; To toaft our wants and wishes , is her way ; Nor afks of God , but of her Stars , to ...
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... taste of Follies , with our Scorn of Fools : Referve with Frankness , Art with Truth ally'd , - Courage with Softnefs , Modefty with Pride ; NOTES . VER . 269. The picture of an estimable Woman , with the heft kind of contrarieties ...
... taste of Follies , with our Scorn of Fools : Referve with Frankness , Art with Truth ally'd , - Courage with Softnefs , Modefty with Pride ; NOTES . VER . 269. The picture of an estimable Woman , with the heft kind of contrarieties ...
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... taste of carving large perriwigs on bufto's , of which there are feveral vile examples in the tombs at Weft- minfter and elsewhere . P. The George and Garter dangling from that bed Where tawdry Ep . III . MORAL ESSAY S. 259.
... taste of carving large perriwigs on bufto's , of which there are feveral vile examples in the tombs at Weft- minfter and elsewhere . P. The George and Garter dangling from that bed Where tawdry Ep . III . MORAL ESSAY S. 259.
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Page 24 - 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 86 - Let them praise the name of the Lord: for his name alone is excellent; his glory is above the earth and heaven.
Page 155 - Let not this weak unknowing hand Presume Thy bolts to throw, And deal damnation round the land, On each I judge Thy foe. If I am right, Thy grace impart Still in the right to stay ; If I am wrong, oh, teach my heart To find that better way...
Page 76 - See life dissolving vegetate again: All forms that perish other forms supply; (By turns we catch the vital breath, and die) Like bubbles on the sea of Matter borne, They rise, they break, and to that sea return.
Page 154 - What conscience dictates to be done. Or warns me not to do, This teach me more than Hell to shun, That more than Heaven pursue.
Page 16 - The scale of sensual, mental powers ascends : Mark how it mounts to man's imperial race, From the green myriads in the peopled grass...
Page 279 - 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 126 - tis the price of toil; The knave deserves it, when he tills the soil, The knave deserves it, when he tempts the main, Where folly fights for kings, or dives for gain. The good man may be weak, be indolent ; Nor is his claim to plenty, but content.
Page 19 - Were we to press, inferior might on ours; Or in the full creation leave a void, Where, one step broken, the great scale's destroy'd: From Nature's chain whatever link you strike, Tenth, or ten thousandth, breaks the chain alike. And, if each system in gradation roll Alike essential to th' amazing whole, The least confusion but in one, not all That system only, but the whole must fall.
Page 59 - The learn'd is happy nature to explore, The fool is happy that he knows no more ; The rich is happy in the plenty giv'n, 265 The poor contents him With the care of Heav'n.