The Works of the English Poets: PopeH. Hughs, 1779 |
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Aſk atque Balaam beſt bleſſing bleſt bliſs Cæfar cauſe charms Court curſe Dæmon defire deſign eaſe EPISTLE eſt ev'n eyes fame fate fince fing firſt Folly fome fool foul fuch fure grace Happineſs heart Heaven honeft honour Houſe intereſt jeſt juſt King Knave laſt laws learn'd leſs Lord lov'd mankind moſt Muſe muſt Nature ne'er never numbers nunc o'er obſerve Paffion paſs Paſſion paſt pleas'd pleaſe pleaſure Poet praiſe preſent pride proud quae quid quod Reaſon reſt rhyme rife riſe Sappho Satire ſave ſay ſcarce ſcene ſcorn ſee ſeen ſenſe ſhade ſhall ſhe ſhine ſhort ſhould ſhow ſkies ſmall ſmile ſome ſpare ſpread ſtands ſtarve ſtate ſtill ſtrength ſtrike ſtrong ſuch Taſte thee theſe things thoſe thou tibi Truth Twas univerſal uſe VARIATION verſe Vice Virtue whate'er whoſe wife worſe
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Page 82 - Presume thy bolts to throw, And deal damnation round the land On each I judge thy foe. If I am right, thy grace impart, Still in the right to stay; If I am wrong, oh teach my heart To find that better way...
Page 132 - His gardens next your admiration call; On every side you look, behold the wall! No pleasing intricacies intervene, No artful wildness to perplex the scene ; Grove nods at grove, each alley has a brother, And half the platform just reflects the other.
Page 33 - 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...
Page 35 - 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; Born but to die, and reas'ning but to err...
Page 151 - 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...
Page 54 - Nor think, in Nature's state they blindly trod; The state of Nature was the reign of God: Self-love and social at her birth began, Union the bond of all things, and of man.
Page 33 - All discord, harmony not understood ; All partial evil, universal good : And, spite of pride, in erring reason's spite, One truth is clear, WHATEVER is, is RIGHT.
Page 159 - 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 a while one parent from the sky ! On cares like these, if length of days attend, May Heaven, to bless those days, preserve my friend!
Page 150 - Pretty! in amber to observe the forms Of hairs, or straws, or dirt, or grubs, or worms! The things, we know, are neither rich nor rare, But wonder how the devil they got there.
Page 123 - Who builds a church to God, and not to Fame, Will never mark the marble with his name...