The Works of Alexander Pope: Esq. with Notes and Illustrations by Himself and Others. To which are Added, a New Life of the Author, an Estimate of His Poetical Character and Writings, and Occasional Remarks, Volume 5J. Rivington, 1824 - English literature |
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... Wisdom has formed the best : that in such a system , co- herence , union , subordination , are necessary ; and if so , that ap- pearances of evil , both moral and natural , are also necessary and unavoidable : that the seeming defects ...
... Wisdom has formed the best : that in such a system , co- herence , union , subordination , are necessary ; and if so , that ap- pearances of evil , both moral and natural , are also necessary and unavoidable : that the seeming defects ...
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... wisdom less than omniscient " Can tell why Heav'n has made us as we are . " Yet , though we be unable to discover the particular reasons for this mode of our existence , we may be assured in general that it is right . For now , entering ...
... wisdom less than omniscient " Can tell why Heav'n has made us as we are . " Yet , though we be unable to discover the particular reasons for this mode of our existence , we may be assured in general that it is right . For now , entering ...
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... wisdom hath formed the best . Ver . 43 , 44. From whence he draws two consequences : 1. The first ( from ver . 44 to 51. ) is , that as the best system cannot but be such a one as hath no unconnected void ; such a one in which there is ...
... wisdom hath formed the best . Ver . 43 , 44. From whence he draws two consequences : 1. The first ( from ver . 44 to 51. ) is , that as the best system cannot but be such a one as hath no unconnected void ; such a one in which there is ...
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... wisdom and limited by necessity , may produce just such a world as the present . " This seems to have been borrowed from Voltaire . Questions sur l'Encyclopédie , 9 Partie , p . 348. I have heard Dr. Adam Smith say , that these ...
... wisdom and limited by necessity , may produce just such a world as the present . " This seems to have been borrowed from Voltaire . Questions sur l'Encyclopédie , 9 Partie , p . 348. I have heard Dr. Adam Smith say , that these ...
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... wisdom to the highest religious purposes . Then , as to the good man's hopes of a retribution , these still remain in their original force : for our idea of God's justice , and how far that justice is engaged to a retribution , is ...
... wisdom to the highest religious purposes . Then , as to the good man's hopes of a retribution , these still remain in their original force : for our idea of God's justice , and how far that justice is engaged to a retribution , is ...
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Page 65 - 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 42 - Lo, the poor Indian ! whose untutored 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...
Page 194 - Honour and shame from no condition rise ; Act well your part, there all the honour lies.
Page 50 - If plagues or earthquakes break not Heaven's design, Why then a Borgia, or a Catiline? Who knows but He, whose hand the lightning forms, Who heaves old ocean, and who wings the storms; Pours fierce ambition in a Caesar's mind, Or turns young Ammon loose to scourge mankind?
Page 74 - All Nature is but art, unknown to thee All chance, direction, which thou canst not see; 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 82 - 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; Alike in ignorance, his reason such, Whether he thinks too little or too much...
Page 16 - Pursues that chain which links th' immense design, Joins heaven 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.
Page 174 - 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.
Page 185 - 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?
Page 123 - See dying vegetables life sustain, See life dissolving vegetate again : All forms that perish other forms supply, (By turns we catch the vital breath, and die) Like bubbles on the sea of matter born, They rise, they break, and to that sea return.