Moral essaysJ. and P. Knapton, 1751 |
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Pagina xiv
... Reason's throne , And loads the Slave with honours not her own : Big - fwoln with folly , as her smiles provoke , 201 Prophaneness spawns , pert Dunces nurse the joke ! Come , let us join a while this tittering crew , And own the Ideot ...
... Reason's throne , And loads the Slave with honours not her own : Big - fwoln with folly , as her smiles provoke , 201 Prophaneness spawns , pert Dunces nurse the joke ! Come , let us join a while this tittering crew , And own the Ideot ...
Pagina xvi
... Reason can explore , This point the way , that waft us glad to shore . Tho ' distant Times may rife in SATIRE's page , Yet chief ' tis Her's to draw the prefent Age : 240 With Wisdom's luftre , Folly's fhade contraft , And judge the ...
... Reason can explore , This point the way , that waft us glad to shore . Tho ' distant Times may rife in SATIRE's page , Yet chief ' tis Her's to draw the prefent Age : 240 With Wisdom's luftre , Folly's fhade contraft , And judge the ...
Pagina xxiv
... surrounds her face , Vain all her bigot cant , her four grimace ) With shame compell'd her leaden throne to quit , And own the force of Reason urg'd by Wit . 410 " Twas then plain DONNE in honeft vengeance rofe , xxiv ESSAY ON SATIRE .
... surrounds her face , Vain all her bigot cant , her four grimace ) With shame compell'd her leaden throne to quit , And own the force of Reason urg'd by Wit . 410 " Twas then plain DONNE in honeft vengeance rofe , xxiv ESSAY ON SATIRE .
Pagina xxviii
... Reason and Wit with ftrength collected fhine ; Where matchless Wit but wins the second praise , Lost , nobly lost , in Truth's fuperior blaze . Did FRIENDSHIP e'er mislead thy wand'ring Muse ? That Friendship xxviii ESSAY ON SATIRE .
... Reason and Wit with ftrength collected fhine ; Where matchless Wit but wins the second praise , Lost , nobly lost , in Truth's fuperior blaze . Did FRIENDSHIP e'er mislead thy wand'ring Muse ? That Friendship xxviii ESSAY ON SATIRE .
Pagina 6
... reason , in their high flights through the regions of Metaphyfics . Both which follies are exposed in the fourth epiftle , where the popular and philofophical errors concerning | Happiness are spoken of . The figure here is taken from ...
... reason , in their high flights through the regions of Metaphyfics . Both which follies are exposed in the fourth epiftle , where the popular and philofophical errors concerning | Happiness are spoken of . The figure here is taken from ...
Overige edities - Alles bekijken
Veelvoorkomende woorden en zinsdelen
abfurd againſt arifing Balaam beauty becauſe beft beſt bleffing bleft blifs Cæfar caufe cauſe Characters cife COMMENTARY conclufion confequently confifts courſe Dæmon defcribed defign Epiftle ev'ry evil faid falfe fame fatire fays fecond fenfe ferves fhall fhews fhould firft firſt folly fome fool foul ftate ftill ftrength fubject fublime fuch fuppofed fupport fure fyftem give Happineſs hath Heav'n himſelf human illuftrates inftance itſelf juft juſt knave laſt lefs Mankind mind miſtake moft moral moſt muft muſt Nature neceffary neral NOTES obfervation occafion ourſelves perfon philofophic Plato pleaſure poet poet's pow'r praiſe prefent Pride principle purpoſe purſue racter raiſe Reafon reft Religion Riches rife riſe ruling Paffion Self-love Senfe ſenſe ſhall ſtanding ſtate ſtill ſyſtem Tafte Taſte thefe themſelves theſe things thofe thoſe thouſand thro tion true truth univerfal uſe Vice Virtue whofe whole whoſe wife wiſdom
Populaire passages
Pagina 82 - Let them praise the name of the Lord: for his name alone is excellent; his glory is above the earth and heaven.
Pagina 109 - Parnassian laurels yield, Or reap'd in iron harvests of the field ? • Where grows ? — where grows it not? If vain our toil, We ought to blame the culture, not the soil...
Pagina 28 - Planets and suns run lawless through the sky ; Let ruling angels from their spheres be hurl'd, Being on being wreck'd, and world on world ; Heaven's whole foundations to their centre nod, And Nature trembles to the throne- of God. All this dread order break — for whom ? for thee ? Vile worm ! —oh madness ! pride ! impiety ! IX.
Pagina 29 - The great directing mind of all ordains. All are but parts of one stupendous whole, Whose body Nature is, and God the soul ; That chang'd through all, and yet in all the same ; Great in the Earth, as in th...
Pagina 150 - 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.
Pagina 12 - Lo, the poor Indian! whose untutor'd mind Sees God in clouds, or hears him in the wind; His soul, proud science never taught to stray Far as the solar walk, or milky way...
Pagina 82 - Praise ye him sun and moon : praise him all ye stars of light. Praise him ye heavens of heavens, and ye waters that be above the heavens ; let them praise the name of the Lord ; for he commanded, and they were created.
Pagina 67 - The learn'd is happy nature to explore, The fool is happy that he knows no more ; The rich is happy in the plenty given, The poor contents him with the care of Heaven.
Pagina 40 - With too much weakness for the Stoic's pride, He hangs between, in doubt to act or rest; In doubt to deem himself a God or Beast; In doubt his mind or body to prefer; Born but to die, and...
Pagina 27 - 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.