The Rape of the Lock: An Essay on Man and Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot

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Houghton, Mifflin Company, 1901 - 105 ページ
 

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59 ページ - Ask your own heart, and nothing is so plain ; 'T is to mistake them costs the time and pain. V. 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, 220 We first endure, then pity, then embrace: But where
53 ページ - Still by himself abus'd, or disabus'd; is Created half to rise, and half to fall; Great lord of all things, yet a prey to all; Sole judge of truth, in endless error hurl'd; The glory, jest, and riddle of the world! Go, wondrous creature ; mount where science guides,
97 ページ - Blest with each talent and each art to please, And born to write, converse, and live with ease: Should such a man, too fond to rule alone, Bear, like the Turk, no brother near the throne. View him with scornful, yet with jealous eyes,
97 ページ - And hate for arts that caus'd himself to rise ; Damn with faint praise, assent with civil leer, And without sneering, teach the rest to sneer; Willing to wound, and yet afraid to strike, Just hint a fault, and hesitate dislike
72 ページ - 305 For modes of faith let graceless zealots fight; His can't be wrong whose life is in the right: In Faith and Hope the world will disagree, But all mankind's concern is Charity: All must be false that thwart this one great end;
45 ページ - Or who could suffer being here below ? The lamb thy riot dooms to bleed to-day, Had he thy reason, would he skip and play ? Pleas'd to the last, he crops the flow'ry food, And licks the hand just rais'd to shed his blood. 85
46 ページ - 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 ; Yet simple Nature to his hope has giv'n, Behind the cloud-topt hill, an humbler heav'n;
80 ページ - 11 tell you, friend ! a wise man and a fool. You '11 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. «••«•••• Boast the pure blood of an illustrious race, In quiet flow from Lucrece to
22 ページ - A third interprets motions, looks, and eyes ; At ev'ry word a reputation dies. Snuff, or the fan, supply each pause of chat, With singing, laughing, ogling, and all that. Meanwhile, declining from the noon of day, The merchant from th' Exchange returns in peace, And the long labors of the toilet cease.
19 ページ - And all the trophies of his former loves; With tender billet-doux he lights the pyre, And breathes three am'rous sighs to raise the fire. Then prostrate falls, and begs with ardent eyes Soon to obtain, and long possess the prize: 45 The pow'rs gave ear, and granted half his pray'r; The rest the winds

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