An Essay on Man: In Four Epistles to H. St. John, Lord Bolingbroke, to which is Added The Universal PrayerS. Andrus, 1824 - 67 pagina's |
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... angels , and on the other , the bodily qualifications of the brutes ; though , to possess any of the sensitive faculties in a higher degree , would render him miserable , ver . 173 , & c . VII . That throughout the whole visible world ...
... angels , and on the other , the bodily qualifications of the brutes ; though , to possess any of the sensitive faculties in a higher degree , would render him miserable , ver . 173 , & c . VII . That throughout the whole visible world ...
Pagina 13
... angel's wings , no seraph's fire ; But thinks , admitted to that equal sky , His faithful dog shall bear him company . 110 IV . Go , wiser thou ! and in thy 2 ESSAY ON MAN . 13 he thy reason would he skip and play? ...
... angel's wings , no seraph's fire ; But thinks , admitted to that equal sky , His faithful dog shall bear him company . 110 IV . Go , wiser thou ! and in thy 2 ESSAY ON MAN . 13 he thy reason would he skip and play? ...
Pagina 14
... angels , angels would be gods . Aspiring to be gods , if angels fell , Aspiring to be angels , men rebel ; And who but wishes to invert the laws Of order , sins against th ' Eternal Cause . 13 V. Ask for what end the heavenly bodies ...
... angels , angels would be gods . Aspiring to be gods , if angels fell , Aspiring to be angels , men rebel ; And who but wishes to invert the laws Of order , sins against th ' Eternal Cause . 13 V. Ask for what end the heavenly bodies ...
Pagina 15
... , Ís kept in nature , and is kept in man . 170 VI . What would this man ? now upward will he soar , And little less than angel , would be more ; 1 Now looking downward , just as griev'd appears To want ESSAY ON MAN . 15.
... , Ís kept in nature , and is kept in man . 170 VI . What would this man ? now upward will he soar , And little less than angel , would be more ; 1 Now looking downward , just as griev'd appears To want ESSAY ON MAN . 15.
Pagina 18
... angel , man , Beast , bird , fish , insect ! what no eye can see , No glass can reach ; from infinite to thee ; From ... angels from their spheres he hurl'd , Being on being wreck'd , and world on world ; Heav'n's whole foundations to ...
... angel , man , Beast , bird , fish , insect ! what no eye can see , No glass can reach ; from infinite to thee ; From ... angels from their spheres he hurl'd , Being on being wreck'd , and world on world ; Heav'n's whole foundations to ...
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acts the soul alike angels ARGUMENT OF EPISTLE beast blessing blest blind bliss breath Catiline chain charity comets confest creature death diff'rence earth ease EPISTLE IV Essay eternal ethereal Ev'n ev'ry faith fame father fear fix'd folly fool form'd forms gen'ral giv'n gives gods happiness heart Heav'n honour hope human imperfect indolent instinct int'rest justice kings knave Learn learn'd lives Lord man's mankind mind mix'd monarch moral nature nature's nature's law never o'er O'erlook'd pain passion peace perfect plac'd planets pleasure poet Pope pow'rs pride principle proper Racine reas'ning religion rill rise seen double self-love and social sense seraph sev'ral shade sire skies Socrates Sonnet sphere taught tempests thee thine things thou toil truth Turenne Twas tyrant Universal Prayer virtue's weak Whate'er whole wise
Populaire passages
Pagina 10 - AWAKE, my St John ! leave all meaner things To low ambition, and the pride of kings. Let us (since life can little more supply Than just to look about us and to die...
Pagina 46 - I'll tell you, friend, a wise man and a fool. You'll find, if once the monarch acts the monk, Or, cobbler-like, the parson will be drunk, Worth makes the man, and want of it the fellow : The rest is all but leather or prunello.
Pagina 17 - What modes of sight betwixt each wide extreme, The mole's dim curtain, and the lynx's beam; Of smell, the headlong lioness between, And hound sagacious on the tainted green ; Of hearing, from the life that fills the flood, To that which warbles through the vernal wood.
Pagina 50 - Yet not to earth's contracted span Thy goodness let me bound, Or think Thee Lord alone of man. When thousand worlds are round.
Pagina 40 - Some place the bliss in action, some in ease, Those call it pleasure, and contentment these: Some sunk to beasts, find pleasure end in pain ; Some swell'd to gods, confess e'en virtue vain!
Pagina 40 - Twin'd with the wreaths 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 50 - Teach me to feel another's woe, To hide the fault I see; That mercy I to others show, That mercy show to me.
Pagina 46 - Honour and shame from no condition rise ; Act well your part, there all the honour lies.
Pagina 51 - HAPPY the man whose wish and care A few paternal acres bound, Content to breathe his native air In his own ground. Whose herds with milk, whose fields with bread, Whose flocks supply him with attire ; Whose trees in summer yield him shade, In winter, fire.
Pagina 48 - Correct with spirit, eloquent with ease, Intent to reason, or polite to please. O ! while along the stream of Time thy name Expanded flies, and gathers all its fame, Say, shall my little bark attendant sail, Pursue the triumph, and partake the gale...