Essay on Man, Epistles I.-IV.Macmillan, 1899 - Всего страниц: 93 |
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... learning is a dangerous thing ; Drink deep , or taste not the Pierian spring . ” To err , is human ; to forgive , divine . " Perhaps the most extraordinary feature about Pope's early poetry is that it is as good , or almost as good , as ...
... learning is a dangerous thing ; Drink deep , or taste not the Pierian spring . ” To err , is human ; to forgive , divine . " Perhaps the most extraordinary feature about Pope's early poetry is that it is as good , or almost as good , as ...
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... learning's luxury , or idleness ; Or tricks to shew the stretch of human brain , Mere curious pleasure , or ingenious pain ; Expunge the whole , or lop th ' excrescent parts Of all our vices have created arts ; Then see how little the ...
... learning's luxury , or idleness ; Or tricks to shew the stretch of human brain , Mere curious pleasure , or ingenious pain ; Expunge the whole , or lop th ' excrescent parts Of all our vices have created arts ; Then see how little the ...
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... learn to bear ; The surest virtues thus from passions shoot , Wild nature's vigour working at the root . What crops of wit and honesty appear From spleen , from obstinacy , hate or fear ! See anger , zeal and fortitude supply ; Ev'n av ...
... learn to bear ; The surest virtues thus from passions shoot , Wild nature's vigour working at the root . What crops of wit and honesty appear From spleen , from obstinacy , hate or fear ! See anger , zeal and fortitude supply ; Ev'n av ...
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... learn , in its decline , Those joys , those loves , those int'rests to resign ; Taught half by reason , half by mere decay , To welcome death , and calmly pass away . Whate'er the passion - knowledge , fame , or pelf , Not one will ...
... learn , in its decline , Those joys , those loves , those int'rests to resign ; Taught half by reason , half by mere decay , To welcome death , and calmly pass away . Whate'er the passion - knowledge , fame , or pelf , Not one will ...
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... Learn from the birds what food the thickets yield ; Learn from the beasts the physic of the field ; Thy arts of building from the bee receive ; Learn of the mole to plow , the worm to weave ; Learn of the little nautilus to sail ...
... Learn from the birds what food the thickets yield ; Learn from the beasts the physic of the field ; Thy arts of building from the bee receive ; Learn of the mole to plow , the worm to weave ; Learn of the little nautilus to sail ...
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Стр. 12 - 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.
Стр. 9 - 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...
Стр. 8 - 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.
Стр. 7 - Where slaves once 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.
Стр. 15 - 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, ill.
Стр. xi - Me, let the tender office long engage, To rock the cradle of reposing age, With lenient arts extend a mother's breath. Make languor smile, and smooth the bed of death, Explore the thought, explain the asking eye, And keep awhile one parent from the sky ! On cares like these if length of days attend.
Стр. 42 - Is hung on high, to poison half mankind. All fame is foreign but of true desert, Plays round the head, but comes not to the heart : One...
Стр. 5 - Why form'd no weaker, blinder, and no less? Ask of thy mother earth, why oaks are made Taller or stronger than the weeds they shade? Or ask of yonder argent fields above, Why JOVE'S Satellites are less than JOVE?
Стр. 18 - As Man, perhaps, the moment of his breath, Receives the lurking principle of death ; The young disease, that must subdue at length, Grows with his growth, and strengthens with his strength...
Стр. 5 - Tis ours to trace him only in our own. He, who through vast immensity can pierce, See worlds on worlds compose one universe, Observe how system into system runs, What other planets circle other suns, What varied being peoples every star, May tell why heav'n has made us as we are.