Essay on ManClarendon Press, 1879 - 122 sider |
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Side 3
... argument of the Essay on Man is said to have been sup- plied to Pope by Bolingbroke . The source of this tradition is Lord Bathurst . Lord Bathurst , à Tory Peer , had lived with the Tory wits of Queen Anne ; then with the Bolingbroke ...
... argument of the Essay on Man is said to have been sup- plied to Pope by Bolingbroke . The source of this tradition is Lord Bathurst . Lord Bathurst , à Tory Peer , had lived with the Tory wits of Queen Anne ; then with the Bolingbroke ...
Side 4
... argument on the origin of evil , on the goodness of God , and the constitution of the world , was rife . Into the prevailing topic of polite conversation Bolingbroke , who returned from exile in 1723 , was drawn by the bent of his ...
... argument on the origin of evil , on the goodness of God , and the constitution of the world , was rife . Into the prevailing topic of polite conversation Bolingbroke , who returned from exile in 1723 , was drawn by the bent of his ...
Side 5
... arguments or topics of the poem are to be traced to in books in much vogue at the time ; to Shaftesbury's Characteristics ( 1711 ) ... argument which absorbed the attention of all serious minds . No twriter , who desires to be read by his ...
... arguments or topics of the poem are to be traced to in books in much vogue at the time ; to Shaftesbury's Characteristics ( 1711 ) ... argument which absorbed the attention of all serious minds . No twriter , who desires to be read by his ...
Side 7
... arguments as occurred to his natural understanding to a general audience who had no more special information than himself . Philosophical debate be- came popular in its method and in its language , losing in depth as it spread itself in ...
... arguments as occurred to his natural understanding to a general audience who had no more special information than himself . Philosophical debate be- came popular in its method and in its language , losing in depth as it spread itself in ...
Side 9
... argument in vindi- cation of Providence as could be presented in the popular form . What this popular form could not hold he has not put there . The mere observation of a narrow social life , or what is called ' knowledge of the world ...
... argument in vindi- cation of Providence as could be presented in the popular form . What this popular form could not hold he has not put there . The mere observation of a narrow social life , or what is called ' knowledge of the world ...
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Side 27 - 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...
Side 66 - Who wickedly is wise, or madly brave, Is but the more a fool, the more a knave. Who noble ends by noble means obtains, Or failing, smiles in exile or in chains, Like good Aurelius let him reign, or bleed Like Socrates, that man is great indeed. What's fame? a fancied life in others' breath, A thing beyond us, ev'n before our death.
Side 30 - Lo, the poor Indian! whose untutor'd mind Sees God in clouds, or hears him in the wind; His soul, proud science never taught to stray Far as the solar walk, or milky way...
Side 37 - 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...
Side 65 - 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 prunella.
Side 36 - That changed through all, and yet in all the same. Great in the earth, as in the ethereal frame, Warms in the sun, refreshes in the breeze, Glows in the stars, and blossoms in the trees ; Lives through all life, extends through all extent, Spreads undivided, operates unspent...
Side 100 - Had in her sober livery all things clad ; Silence accompanied ; for beast and bird, They to their grassy couch, these to their nests, Were slunk, all but the wakeful nightingale, She all night long her amorous descant sung...
Side 77 - As may express them best ; though what if earth Be but the shadow of heaven, and things therein Each to other like, more than on earth is thought...
Side 32 - Annual for me, the grape, the rose renew The juice nectareous, and the balmy dew; For me, the mine a thousand treasures brings; For me, health gushes from a thousand springs; Seas roll to waft me, suns to light me rise; My foot-stool earth, my canopy the skies.
Side 86 - From harmony, from heavenly harmony This universal frame began : From harmony to harmony Through all the compass of the notes it ran, The diapason closing full in Man.