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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Pagina 21
... pleasure , or ingenious pain ; Expunge the whole , or lop th ' excrescent parts Of all our vices have created arts : 50 Then see how little the remaining sum , Which serv'd the past , and must the times to come ! II . Two principles in ...
... pleasure , or ingenious pain ; Expunge the whole , or lop th ' excrescent parts Of all our vices have created arts : 50 Then see how little the remaining sum , Which serv'd the past , and must the times to come ! II . Two principles in ...
Pagina 22
... pleasure their desire : But greedy that , its object would devour , This taste the honey , and not wound the flow'r : Pleasure , or wrong or rightly understood , Our greatest evil or our greatest good . III . 66 22 ESSAY ON MAN .
... pleasure their desire : But greedy that , its object would devour , This taste the honey , and not wound the flow'r : Pleasure , or wrong or rightly understood , Our greatest evil or our greatest good . III . 66 22 ESSAY ON MAN .
Pagina 23
... pleasure's smiling train , Hate , fear and grief , the family of pain ; 115 These mix'd with art , and to due bounds ... Pleasures are ever in our hands or eyes , And ESSAY OM MAN . 23-
... pleasure's smiling train , Hate , fear and grief , the family of pain ; 115 These mix'd with art , and to due bounds ... Pleasures are ever in our hands or eyes , And ESSAY OM MAN . 23-
Pagina 24
... Pleasures are ever in our hands or eyes , And when in act they cease , in prospect rise : Present to grasp , and future still to find , The whole employ of body and of mind . All spread their charms , but charm not all alike ; On diff ...
... Pleasures are ever in our hands or eyes , And when in act they cease , in prospect rise : Present to grasp , and future still to find , The whole employ of body and of mind . All spread their charms , but charm not all alike ; On diff ...
Pagina 30
... pleasure and the pride . Is thine alone the seed that strews the plain ? The birds of heaven shall vindicate their grain . Thine the full harvest of the golden year ? Part pays , and justly , the deserving steer : 35 40 The hog , that ...
... pleasure and the pride . Is thine alone the seed that strews the plain ? The birds of heaven shall vindicate their grain . Thine the full harvest of the golden year ? Part pays , and justly , the deserving steer : 35 40 The hog , that ...
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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...