An Essay on Man: In Four Epistles to H. St. John, Lord Bolingbroke, to which is Added The Universal Prayer |
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... creatures if he call , Say what their use , had he the pow'rs of all ? Nature to these , without profusion kind , The proper organs , proper pow'rs assign'd ; Each seeming want compensated of course , Here , with degrees of swiftness ...
... creatures if he call , Say what their use , had he the pow'rs of all ? Nature to these , without profusion kind , The proper organs , proper pow'rs assign'd ; Each seeming want compensated of course , Here , with degrees of swiftness ...
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... creature ! mount where science guides , Go , measure earth , weigh air , and taste the tides ; 20 Instruct the planets in what orbs to run , Correct old time , and regulate the sun ; Go , soar with Plato to th ' empyreal sphere , To the ...
... creature ! mount where science guides , Go , measure earth , weigh air , and taste the tides ; 20 Instruct the planets in what orbs to run , Correct old time , and regulate the sun ; Go , soar with Plato to th ' empyreal sphere , To the ...
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... creature owns it in the first degree , 225 But thinks his neighbour farther gone than he Ev'n those who dwell beneath its very zone , Or never feel the rage , or never own ; What happier natures shrink at with affright , The hard ...
... creature owns it in the first degree , 225 But thinks his neighbour farther gone than he Ev'n those who dwell beneath its very zone , Or never feel the rage , or never own ; What happier natures shrink at with affright , The hard ...
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... creature's wants and woes . Say , will the falcon , stooping from above , Smit with her varying plumage , spare the dove ? Admires the jay the insect's gilded wings ? Or hears the hawk when Philomela sings ? Man cares for all : to birds ...
... creature's wants and woes . Say , will the falcon , stooping from above , Smit with her varying plumage , spare the dove ? Admires the jay the insect's gilded wings ? Or hears the hawk when Philomela sings ? Man cares for all : to birds ...
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... creature link'd to creature , man to man . Whate'er of life all - quick'ning ether keeps , 115 Or breathes through air , or shoots beneath the deeps , Or pours profuse on earth , one nature feeds The vital flame , and swells the genial ...
... creature link'd to creature , man to man . Whate'er of life all - quick'ning ether keeps , 115 Or breathes through air , or shoots beneath the deeps , Or pours profuse on earth , one nature feeds The vital flame , and swells the genial ...
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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...