An Essay on Man: In Four Epistles to H. St. John, Lord Bolingbroke, to which is Added The Universal Prayer |
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... contents his natural desire , le asks no 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 ...
... contents his natural desire , le asks no 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 ...
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... contents him with the care of Heav'n . See the blind beggar dance , the cripple sing , The sot a hero , lunatic a king ; The starving chymist in his golden views Supremely blest , the poet in his muse . 270 See some strange comfort ev ...
... contents him with the care of Heav'n . See the blind beggar dance , the cripple sing , The sot a hero , lunatic a king ; The starving chymist in his golden views Supremely blest , the poet in his muse . 270 See some strange comfort ev ...
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... content ! whate'er thy name : That something still which prompts th ' eternal sigh , For which we bear to live , or dare to die , Which still so near us , yet beyond us lies , O'erlook'd , seen double , by the fool and wise , Plant of ...
... content ! whate'er thy name : That something still which prompts th ' eternal sigh , For which we bear to live , or dare to die , Which still so near us , yet beyond us lies , O'erlook'd , seen double , by the fool and wise , Plant of ...
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... content . Fortune her gifts may variously dispose , And these be happy call'd , unhappy those ; But Heaven's just balance equal will appear , 65 While those are plac'd in hope , and these in fear : 70 Not present good or ill , the joy ...
... content . Fortune her gifts may variously dispose , And these be happy call'd , unhappy those ; But Heaven's just balance equal will appear , 65 While those are plac'd in hope , and these in fear : 70 Not present good or ill , the joy ...
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... Contents us not . A better shall we have ? A kingdom of the just then let it be : But first consider how those just agree . The good must merit God's peculiar care ; 135 But who , but God , can tell us who they are ? One thinks on ...
... Contents us not . A better shall we have ? A kingdom of the just then let it be : But first consider how those just agree . The good must merit God's peculiar care ; 135 But who , but God , can tell us who they are ? One thinks on ...
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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
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Page 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...
Page 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.
Page 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.
Page 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.
Page 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!
Page 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...
Page 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.
Page 46 - Honour and shame from no condition rise ; Act well your part, there all the honour lies.
Page 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.
Page 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...