An Essay on Man: In Four Epistles to H. St. John, Lord BolingbrokeH. Benton, 1824 - 48 pagina's |
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Pagina 13
... gives not thee to know , But gives that hope to be thy blessing now . Hope springs eternal in the human breast : Man never is , but always to be blest . The soul uneasy , and confin'd from home , Rests and expatiates in a life to come ...
... gives not thee to know , But gives that hope to be thy blessing now . Hope springs eternal in the human breast : Man never is , but always to be blest . The soul uneasy , and confin'd from home , Rests and expatiates in a life to come ...
Pagina 14
... gives too little , there too much ; Destroy all creatures for thy sport or gust ; Yet cry , if man's unhappy , God's unjust ; If man alone engross not Heaven's high care , Alone made perfect here , immortal there ; Snatch from his hand ...
... gives too little , there too much ; Destroy all creatures for thy sport or gust ; Yet cry , if man's unhappy , God's unjust ; If man alone engross not Heaven's high care , Alone made perfect here , immortal there ; Snatch from his hand ...
Pagina 16
... of the spheres , How would he wish that Heav'n had left him still The whispering zephyr , and the purling rill ? Who finds not Providence all good and wise , 205 Alike in what it gives , and what denies ? 16 ESSAY ON MAN .
... of the spheres , How would he wish that Heav'n had left him still The whispering zephyr , and the purling rill ? Who finds not Providence all good and wise , 205 Alike in what it gives , and what denies ? 16 ESSAY ON MAN .
Pagina 17
... gives , and what denies ? VII . Far as creation's ample range extends , The scale of sensual , mental pow'rs ascends : Mark how it mounts to man's imperial race , From the green myriads in the peopled grass : What modes of sight betwixt ...
... gives , and what denies ? VII . Far as creation's ample range extends , The scale of sensual , mental pow'rs ascends : Mark how it mounts to man's imperial race , From the green myriads in the peopled grass : What modes of sight betwixt ...
Pagina 23
... , Make and maintain the balance of the mind : The lights and shades , whose well - accorded strife Gives all the strength and colour of our life . 120 . Pleasures are ever in our hands or eyes , And ESSAY OM MAN . 23.
... , Make and maintain the balance of the mind : The lights and shades , whose well - accorded strife Gives all the strength and colour of our life . 120 . Pleasures are ever in our hands or eyes , And ESSAY OM MAN . 23.
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Pagina 19 - 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.
Pagina 20 - 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 53 - What Conscience dictates to be done, Or warns me not to do; This teach me more than Hell to shun, That more than Heav'n pursue. What blessings thy free bounty gives Let me not cast away; For God is paid when man receives; T
Pagina 12 - Heaven from all creatures hides the book of Fate, All but the page prescribed, their present state: From brutes what men, from men what spirits know: Or who could suffer being here below? The lamb thy riot dooms to bleed to-day, Had he thy reason, would he skip and play? Pleased to the last, he crops the flowery food, And licks the hand just raised to shed his blood.
Pagina 10 - The latent tracts, the giddy heights, explore Of all who blindly creep, or sightless soar; Eye Nature's walks, shoot folly as it flies, And catch the manners living as they rise ; , Laugh where we must, be candid where we can, But vindicate the ways of God to man.
Pagina 13 - 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 13 - Hope humbly then; with trembling pinions soar; Wait the great teacher Death; and God adore. What future bliss, he gives not thee to know, But gives that Hope to be thy blessing now.
Pagina 54 - 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 54 - Let not this weak, unknowing hand Presume Thy bolts to throw, And deal damnation round the land, On each I judge Thy foe.
Pagina 56 - Hark! they whisper; Angels say, Sister Spirit, come away. What is this absorbs me quite? Steals my senses, shuts my sight, Drowns my spirits, draws my breath?