An Essay on Man: In Four Epistles to H. St. John, Lord Bolingbroke, to which is Added The Universal Prayer |
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Most strength the moving principle requires ; Active its task , it prompts , impels ,
inspires . Sedate and quiet the comparing lies , Form'd but to check , delib'rate ,
and advise . Self - love still stronger , as its object's nigh ; Reason's at distance ...
Most strength the moving principle requires ; Active its task , it prompts , impels ,
inspires . Sedate and quiet the comparing lies , Form'd but to check , delib'rate ,
and advise . Self - love still stronger , as its object's nigh ; Reason's at distance ...
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In lazy apathy let stoics boast Their virtue fix'd ; ' tis fixed as in a frost ; Contracted
all , retiring to the breast ; But strength of mind is exercise , not rest ; The rising
tempest puts in act the soul , Parts it may ravage , but preserves the whole .
In lazy apathy let stoics boast Their virtue fix'd ; ' tis fixed as in a frost ; Contracted
all , retiring to the breast ; But strength of mind is exercise , not rest ; The rising
tempest puts in act the soul , Parts it may ravage , but preserves the whole .
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As man , perhaps , the moment of his breath , Receives the lurking principle of
death ; The young disease , that must subdue at length , 135 Grows with his
growth , and strengthens with his strength ; So , cast and mingled with his very
frame ...
As man , perhaps , the moment of his breath , Receives the lurking principle of
death ; The young disease , that must subdue at length , 135 Grows with his
growth , and strengthens with his strength ; So , cast and mingled with his very
frame ...
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Sir Isaac Newton's Optics , quest . ult . Ver . 182. Here with degrees of swiftness ,
there of force . ] It is a certain axiom in the anatomy of creatures , that , in
proportion as they are formed for strength , their swiftness is lessened ; or as they
are ...
Sir Isaac Newton's Optics , quest . ult . Ver . 182. Here with degrees of swiftness ,
there of force . ] It is a certain axiom in the anatomy of creatures , that , in
proportion as they are formed for strength , their swiftness is lessened ; or as they
are ...
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is lessened ; or as they are formed for swiftness , their strength is abated . Ver .
213 . The headlong lioness . The manner of the lions ' hunting their prey in the
deserts of Africa is this : At their first going out in the night - time , they set up a
loud ...
is lessened ; or as they are formed for swiftness , their strength is abated . Ver .
213 . The headlong lioness . The manner of the lions ' hunting their prey in the
deserts of Africa is this : At their first going out in the night - time , they set up a
loud ...
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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...
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| Title | An Essay on Man: In Four Epistles to H. St. John, Lord Bolingbroke, to which is Added The Universal Prayer |
| Author | Alexander Pope |
| Publisher | S. Andrus, 1824 |
| Original from | the New York Public Library |
| Digitized | 1 Dec 2006 |
| Length | 67 pages |
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