An Essay on Man: In Four Epistles to H. St. John, Lord BolingbrokeC.A. Mirick, 1843 - 72 ページ |
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act the soul ALEXANDER POPE alike ambition angels assign'd beast began behold bless'd blessing blest blind bliss blood breath Cæsar Catiline chain confest creature crown'd death destroy E'en earth ease embrace EPISTLE equal eternal faith fall fame father fear feel fix'd folly fool form'd frame gain gale gives glory God's gods gradation grows happiness Heaven hero hope human hurl'd imperfect indolent instinct kings laws Learn learn'd lives lord man's mankind mind mix'd monarch mortal mourn nature nature's law never o'er pain passion peace perfect Pleas'd pleasure pride proud reign rest restrains rill rise self-love and social sense seraph shade shame sire skies slaves society sphere spread taught tempest thee thine things thinks Thro thy reason toil true Twas tyrant unknown vice virtue virtue's virtuous weak Whate'er whole wings wise
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4 ページ - 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) Expatiate free o'er all this scene of Man; A mighty maze! but not without a plan; A Wild, where weeds and flow'rs promiscuous shoot, Or Garden, tempting with forbidden fruit.
6 ページ - Who sees with equal eye, as God of all, A hero perish, or a sparrow fall, Atoms or systems into ruin hurl'd, And now a bubble burst, and now a world.
11 ページ - Know, then, thyself, presume not God to scan; The proper study of mankind is man. 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...
27 ページ - Some place the bliss in action, some in ease, Those call it pleasure, and contentment these...
28 ページ - Order is heaven's first law ; and this confest, Some are, and must be, greater than the rest, More rich, more wise ; but who infers from hence That such are happier, shocks all common sense.
6 ページ - 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...
16 ページ - Vice is a monster of so frightful mien, As, to be hated, needs but to be seen; Yet seen too oft, familiar with her face, We first endure, then pity, then embrace.
31 ページ - Honor and shame from no condition rise ; Act well your part, there all the honor lies. Fortune in men has some small difference made, One flaunts in rags, one flutters in brocade ; The cobbler apron'd, and the parson gown'd, The friar hooded, and the monarch crown'd. " What differ more," you cry, " than crown and cowl ?" I'll tell you, friend ! a wise man and a fool.
32 ページ - The whole strange purpose of their lives, to find Or make an enemy of all mankind ! Not one looks backward, onward still he goes, Yet ne'er looks forward further than his nose.
29 ページ - When the loose mountain trembles from on high, Shall gravitation cease, if you go by? Or some old temple, nodding to its fall, For Chartres' head reserve the hanging wall?