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Page 17
... more their native land behold , No fiends torment , no Christians thirst for gold .
To be , contents his natural desire , He asks no angel's wing , no seraph's fire ;
But thinks , admitted to that equal sky , His faithful dog shall bear him company . 4
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... more their native land behold , No fiends torment , no Christians thirst for gold .
To be , contents his natural desire , He asks no angel's wing , no seraph's fire ;
But thinks , admitted to that equal sky , His faithful dog shall bear him company . 4
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The bliss of man ( could pride that blessing find ) Is not to act or think beyond
mankind ; No pow'rs of body or of soul to share , But what his nature and his state
can bear , Why has not man a microscopic eye ? For this plain reason , man is
not ...
The bliss of man ( could pride that blessing find ) Is not to act or think beyond
mankind ; No pow'rs of body or of soul to share , But what his nature and his state
can bear , Why has not man a microscopic eye ? For this plain reason , man is
not ...
Page 28
In this , or any other sphere , Secure to be as blest as thou canst bear : Safe in the
hand of one disposing pow'r , Or in the natal , or the mortal hour . All nature is but
art , unknown to thee ; All chance , direction , which thou canst not sce : All ...
In this , or any other sphere , Secure to be as blest as thou canst bear : Safe in the
hand of one disposing pow'r , Or in the natal , or the mortal hour . All nature is but
art , unknown to thee ; All chance , direction , which thou canst not sce : All ...
Page 73
... the order of Providence here , and a resignation to it here and hereafter , O
HAPPINESS ! our being's end and aim ! Good , Pleasure , Ease , Content , whate'
er thy name ; That something still which prompts th'eternal sigh , For which we
bear ...
... the order of Providence here , and a resignation to it here and hereafter , O
HAPPINESS ! our being's end and aim ! Good , Pleasure , Ease , Content , whate'
er thy name ; That something still which prompts th'eternal sigh , For which we
bear ...
Page 107
... fancies concerning the nature of that future state , yet he is so far from
excluding any part of his own species ( a vice which could proceed only from the
pride of science ) that he humanely admits even his faithful dog to bear bim
company .
... fancies concerning the nature of that future state , yet he is so far from
excluding any part of his own species ( a vice which could proceed only from the
pride of science ) that he humanely admits even his faithful dog to bear bim
company .
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Page 32 - KNOW then thyself, presume not God to scan; The proper study of mankind is Man. Placed on this isthmus of a middle state, A being darkly wise, and rudely great: With too much knowledge for the Sceptic side, 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 reas'ning but to err; Alike in ignorance, his reason such, Whether he thinks too little, or too much...
Page 100 - What Conscience dictates to be done, Or warns me not to do — This, teach me more than hell to shun, That, more than heaven pursue.
Page 28 - Cease then, nor order imperfection name; Our proper bliss depends on what we blame. Know thy own point: this kind this due degree Of blindness, weakness, Heav'n bestows on thee. Submit. — In this, or any other sphere, Secure to be as blest as thou canst bear: Safe in the hand of one disposing Power, Or in the natal, or the mortal hour.
Page 71 - For forms of government let fools contest ; Whate'er is best administer'd is best : For modes of faith let graceless zealots fight ; His can't be wrong whose life is in the right...
Page 35 - Two Principles in human nature reign; Self-love, to urge, and Reason, to restrain; Nor this a good, nor that a bad we call, Each works its end, to move or govern all: And to their proper operation still, Ascribe all Good; to their improper, 111.
Page 74 - Ask of the Learn'd the way? The Learn'd are blind; This bids to serve, and that to shun mankind; "° Some place the bliss in action, some in ease, Those call it Pleasure, and Contentment these...
Page 78 - Know, all the good that individuals find, Or God and nature meant to mere mankind, Reason's whole pleasure, all the joys of sense, Lie in three words, health, peace, and competence But health consists with temperance alone ; And peace, oh virtue ! peace is all thy own.
Page 108 - Were there all harmony, all virtue here; That never air or ocean felt the wind; That never passion discompos'd the mind.
Page 96 - God loves from whole to parts : but human soul Must rise from individual to the whole. Self-love but serves the virtuous mind to wake, As the small pebble stirs the peaceful lake ; The centre mov'd, a circle straight succeeds, Another still, and still another spreads ; Friend, parent, neighbour, first it will embrace ; His country next, and next all human race ; Wide and more wide, th...
Page 76 - Obvious her goods, in no extreme they dwell ; There needs but thinking right and meaning well ; And mourn our various portions as we please, Equal is common sense and common ease. Remember man, " the Universal Cause Acts not by partial but by general laws," And makes what happiness we justly call Subsist not in the good of one, but all.
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| Title | An essay on man. Cornish ed |
| Author | Alexander Pope |
| Published | 1798 |
| Original from | Oxford University |
| Digitized | 18 Jun 2007 |
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