Essay on ManClarendon Press, 1879 - 122 sider |
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... soul Look'd thro ' ? or can a part contain the whole ? Is the great chain , that draws all to agree , And drawn supports , upheld by God , or thee ? Presumptuous man ! the reason wouldst thou find , Why form'd so weak , so little , and ...
... soul Look'd thro ' ? or can a part contain the whole ? Is the great chain , that draws all to agree , And drawn supports , upheld by God , or thee ? Presumptuous man ! the reason wouldst thou find , Why form'd so weak , so little , and ...
Side 30
... soul , uneasy and confin'd from home , Rests and expatiates in a life to come . 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 ...
... soul , uneasy and confin'd from home , Rests and expatiates in a life to come . 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 ...
Side 33
... 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 a fly . Say what the use , were finer optics giv'n , T'inspect a mite , not comprehend the heav'n ? Or ...
... 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 a fly . Say what the use , were finer optics giv'n , T'inspect a mite , not comprehend the heav'n ? Or ...
Side 36
... soul ; That , chang'd thro ' all , and yet in all the same , Great in the earth , as in th ' æthereal frame , Warms in the sun , refreshes in the breeze , Glows in the stars , and blossoms in the trees , Lives thro ' all life , extends ...
... soul ; That , chang'd thro ' all , and yet in all the same , Great in the earth , as in th ' æthereal frame , Warms in the sun , refreshes in the breeze , Glows in the stars , and blossoms in the trees , Lives thro ' all life , extends ...
Side 39
... soul ; Reason's comparing balance rules the whole . Man , but for that , no action could attend , And , but for this , were active to no end : Fix'd like a plant on his peculiar spot , To draw nutrition , propagate , and rot : Or ...
... soul ; Reason's comparing balance rules the whole . Man , but for that , no action could attend , And , but for this , were active to no end : Fix'd like a plant on his peculiar spot , To draw nutrition , propagate , and rot : Or ...
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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.