Essay on Man, Epistles I.-IV.Macmillan, 1899 - Всего страниц: 93 |
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... death , his mother living with him , he took up his residence at a villa , which he purchased at Twickenham , a place on the Thames , about twenty miles above London , if the wind- ings of the river be followed , and a shorter ...
... death , his mother living with him , he took up his residence at a villa , which he purchased at Twickenham , a place on the Thames , about twenty miles above London , if the wind- ings of the river be followed , and a shorter ...
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... death . " Pope was a good friend , but one of the most endearing points about him was his strong affection for his mother . [ See iv . 110. ] On her monument he called her mater optima , mulierum amantissima . With genuine feeling he ...
... death . " Pope was a good friend , but one of the most endearing points about him was his strong affection for his mother . [ See iv . 110. ] On her monument he called her mater optima , mulierum amantissima . With genuine feeling he ...
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... death , Explore the thought , explain the asking eye , And keep awhile one parent from the sky . " After his mother's death he seems to have been more and more miserable as his diseases increased upon him , until he died on May 30 ...
... death , Explore the thought , explain the asking eye , And keep awhile one parent from the sky . " After his mother's death he seems to have been more and more miserable as his diseases increased upon him , until he died on May 30 ...
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... death , and God adore . What future bliss , he gives not thee to know , But gives that hope to be thy blessing now . Hope springs eternal in the human breast : Man never is , but always to be blest : > The soul , uneasy and confin'd ...
... death , and God adore . What future bliss , he gives not thee to know , But gives that hope to be thy blessing now . Hope springs eternal in the human breast : Man never is , but always to be blest : > The soul , uneasy and confin'd ...
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... deaths descend , When earthquakes swallow , or when tempests sweep Towns to one grave , whole nations to the deep ? ' No ( ' tis reply'd ) the first Almighty Cause Acts not by partial , but by gen'ral laws ; Th ' exceptions few ; some ...
... deaths descend , When earthquakes swallow , or when tempests sweep Towns to one grave , whole nations to the deep ? ' No ( ' tis reply'd ) the first Almighty Cause Acts not by partial , but by gen'ral laws ; Th ' exceptions few ; some ...
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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.