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... reas'ning pride , our error lies ; All quit the sphere , and rush into the skies . Pride still is aiming at the blest abodes , Men would be angels , angels would be gods . Aspiring to be Gods , if angels fell , Aspiring to be angels ...
... reas'ning pride , our error lies ; All quit the sphere , and rush into the skies . Pride still is aiming at the blest abodes , Men would be angels , angels would be gods . Aspiring to be Gods , if angels fell , Aspiring to be angels ...
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... reas'ning springs ; Account for moral , as for nat❜ral things : Why charge we heav'n in those , in these acquit ? In both , to reason right , is to submit . Better for us , perhaps , it might appear , Were there all harmony , all ...
... reas'ning springs ; Account for moral , as for nat❜ral things : Why charge we heav'n in those , in these acquit ? In both , to reason right , is to submit . Better for us , perhaps , it might appear , Were there all harmony , all ...
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... reason , man is not a fly . Say what the use , were finer optics giv❜n , 195 T ' inspect a mite , not comprehend the ... ning ears , And stunn'd him with the music of the spheres , How would he wish , that heav'n had left him still 205 ...
... reason , man is not a fly . Say what the use , were finer optics giv❜n , 195 T ' inspect a mite , not comprehend the ... ning ears , And stunn'd him with the music of the spheres , How would he wish , that heav'n had left him still 205 ...
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... reas'ning elephant , with thine ! Twixt that , and reason , what a nice barrier ! Forever sep'rate , yet forever near ! Remembrance and reflection , how ally'd ; What thin partitions sense from thought divide ! And middle natures , how ...
... reas'ning elephant , with thine ! Twixt that , and reason , what a nice barrier ! Forever sep'rate , yet forever near ! Remembrance and reflection , how ally'd ; What thin partitions sense from thought divide ! And middle natures , how ...
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... reas'ning but to err ; Alike in ignorance , his reason such , Whether he thinks too little , or too much : Chaos of thought and passion , all confus'd ; Still by himself abus'd , or disabus'd ; Created half to rise , and half to fall ...
... reas'ning but to err ; Alike in ignorance , his reason such , Whether he thinks too little , or too much : Chaos of thought and passion , all confus'd ; Still by himself abus'd , or disabus'd ; Created half to rise , and half to fall ...
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