Essay on ManClarendon Press, 1879 - 122 sider |
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Side 8
... served up , and to be looked upon as a part of the tea equipage . ' ( Spectator , No. 10. ) This impulse to be understood , and to attain intelligibility by saying only the obvious , extended itself to the writers in verse , as well as ...
... served up , and to be looked upon as a part of the tea equipage . ' ( Spectator , No. 10. ) This impulse to be understood , and to attain intelligibility by saying only the obvious , extended itself to the writers in verse , as well as ...
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... served a temporary purpose in throwing the shield of Warburton's orthodoxy and philosophical reputation over Pope . Though Pope must have been surprised to be told that one of his own ' chief ends of writing was the confutation of the ...
... served a temporary purpose in throwing the shield of Warburton's orthodoxy and philosophical reputation over Pope . Though Pope must have been surprised to be told that one of his own ' chief ends of writing was the confutation of the ...
Side 29
... serves to second too some other use . So man , who here seems principal alone , Perhaps acts second to some sphere unknown , Touches some wheel , or verges to some goal ; ' Tis but a part we see , and not a whole . When the proud steed ...
... serves to second too some other use . So man , who here seems principal alone , Perhaps acts second to some sphere unknown , Touches some wheel , or verges to some goal ; ' Tis but a part we see , and not a whole . When the proud steed ...
Side 35
... tread , Or hand , to toil , aspir'd to be the head ? What if the head , the eye , or ear repin'd To serve mere engines to the ruling mind ? 240 250 J 260 1 Just as absurd for any part to claim To D 2 FIRST EPISTLE . 35.
... tread , Or hand , to toil , aspir'd to be the head ? What if the head , the eye , or ear repin'd To serve mere engines to the ruling mind ? 240 250 J 260 1 Just as absurd for any part to claim To D 2 FIRST EPISTLE . 35.
Side 48
... serving : nothing stands alone ; The chain holds on , and where it ends , unknown . Has God , thou fool ! work'd solely for thy good , Thy joy , thy pastime , thy attire , thy food ? Who for thy table feeds the wanton fawn , For him as ...
... serving : nothing stands alone ; The chain holds on , and where it ends , unknown . Has God , thou fool ! work'd solely for thy good , Thy joy , thy pastime , thy attire , thy food ? Who for thy table feeds the wanton fawn , For him as ...
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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.