An Essay on Man: In Four Epistles to H. St. John Lord Bolinbroke. To which are Added the Universal Prayer, Messiah, and ElegyJ. Lowe, 1820 - 72 pages |
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... , blinder , and no less ? Ask of thy mother earth , why oaks are made Taller and stronger than the weeds they shade ? Or ask of yonder argent fields above , Why Jove's 1 * ESSAY ON MAN . 5 Of man, what see we but his station here...
... , blinder , and no less ? Ask of thy mother earth , why oaks are made Taller and stronger than the weeds they shade ? Or ask of yonder argent fields above , Why Jove's 1 * ESSAY ON MAN . 5 Of man, what see we but his station here...
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... less than Jove ? Of systems possible , if ' tis confest , That wisdom infinite must form the best ; Where all must full , or not coherent be , And all that rise , rise in due degree ; Then , in the scale of reas'ning life , ' tis plain ...
... less than Jove ? Of systems possible , if ' tis confest , That wisdom infinite must form the best ; Where all must full , or not coherent be , And all that rise , rise in due degree ; Then , in the scale of reas'ning life , ' tis plain ...
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... less ? As much that end a constant course requires Of showers and sunshine , as of man's desires ; As much eternal springs and cloudless skies , As men forever terap'rate , calm and wise . If plagues or earthquakes break not heaven's ...
... less ? As much that end a constant course requires Of showers and sunshine , as of man's desires ; As much eternal springs and cloudless skies , As men forever terap'rate , calm and wise . If plagues or earthquakes break not heaven's ...
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... less than angel , would be more ; Now looking downwards , just as griev'd , appears To want the strength of bulls , the fur of bears . Made for his use all creatures if he call , Say what their use , had he the powers of all ; Nature to ...
... less than angel , would be more ; Now looking downwards , just as griev'd , appears To want the strength of bulls , the fur of bears . Made for his use all creatures if he call , Say what their use , had he the powers of all ; Nature to ...
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... less inflame ; As strong or weak , the organs of the frame ; And hence one master passion in the breast , Like Aaron's serpent , swallows up the rest . As man , perhaps , the moment of his breath , Receives the lurking principle of ...
... less inflame ; As strong or weak , the organs of the frame ; And hence one master passion in the breast , Like Aaron's serpent , swallows up the rest . As man , perhaps , the moment of his breath , Receives the lurking principle of ...
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Expressions et termes fréquents
act the soul alike ambition angels assign'd beast behold blessing blest abodes blind bliss blood breath Cæsar Catiline chain confest creature crown'd death diff'rence E'en earth ease eternal ethereal ev'ry eyes faith fall fame fear feel fix'd flood flow'ry fool foreign hands thy form'd gen'ral gives glory God's gods gradation happiness heart Heaven heroes honor'd hope human indolent instinct int'rest justice kings knave laws Learn learn'd life's lives Lord man's mankind MESSIAH mind monarch mountains mourn nature nature's nature's law ne'er never o'er pain passion peace perfect plac'd Pleas'd pleasure pride proud race reas'ning reign rest rill rise Self-love and Social sense sev'ral shade sire skies slaves sphere springs taught tempest thee thine things thou thy reason toil tyrant vice or virtue virtue's weak Whate'er whole wise
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Page 57 - Who wickedly is wise, or madly brave, Is but the more a fool, the more a knave. Who noble ends by noble means obtains, Or failing, smiles in exile or in chains, Like good Aurelius let him reign, or bleed Like Socrates, that man is great indeed. What's fame? a fancied life in others' breath, A thing beyond us, ev'n before our death.
Page 66 - What conscience dictates to be done, Or warns me not to do, This, teach me more than hell to shun, That, more than heaven pursue.
Page 56 - Go ! if your ancient, but ignoble blood Has crept through scoundrels ever since the flood, Go ! and pretend your family is young ; Nor own, your fathers have been fools so long. What can ennoble sots, or slaves, or cowards ? Alas ! not all the blood of all the HOWARDS.
Page 14 - See through this air, this ocean, and this earth, All matter quick, and bursting into birth! Above, how high progressive life may go ! Around, how wide ! how deep extend below ! Vast chain of being! which from God began; Natures ethereal, human, angel, man, Beast, bird, fish, insect, what no eye can see, No glass can reach; from infinite to thee; From thee to nothing...
Page 18 - Go, wondrous creature! mount where Science guides; Go, measure earth, weigh air, and state the tides; Instruct the planets in what orbs to run, Correct old Time, and regulate the sun; Go, soar with Plato to th...
Page 7 - Heaven from all creatures hides the book of fate, All but the page prescribed, their present state: From brutes what men, from men what spirits know: Or who could suffer being here below? The lamb thy riot dooms to bleed today, Had he thy reason, would he skip and play? Pleased to the last, he crops the flowery food, And licks the hand just raised to shed his blood.
Page 16 - Lives through all life, extends through all extent, Spreads undivided, operates unspent, Breathes in our soul, informs our mortal part, As full, as perfect, in a hair as heart : As full, as perfect, in vile man that mourns, As the rapt seraph that adores and burns : To him, no high, no low, no great, no small ; He fills, he bounds, connects and equals all.
Page 13 - Man's imperial race from the green myriads in the peopled grass : what modes of sight betwixt each wide extreme, the mole's dim curtain, and the lynx's beam ; of smell, the headlong lioness between, and hound sagacious on the tainted green ; of hearing, from the life that fills the flood, to that which warbles through the vernal wood; the spider's touch how exquisitely fine ! feels at each thread, and lives along the line...
Page 70 - See heaven its sparkling portals wide display, And break upon thee in a flood of day.
Page 62 - Pursues that chain which links th' immense design, Joins heav'n and earth, and mortal and divine; Sees, that no being any bliss can know, But touches some above, and some below; Learns, from this union of the rising whole, The first, last purpose of the human soul ; And knows where faith, law, morals, all began, All end, in love of God, and love of man.