Elegant poems. Pope's Essay on man, Blair's Grave, Gray's Elegy, Goldsmith's Traveller, and Goldsmith's Deserted village1814 |
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... virtue , 167. Virtue and vice joined in our mixed nature ; the limits near , yet the things separate and evident . What is the office of reason , 187 , & c . How odious vice 8 THE CONTENTS . ARGUMENT OF THE NATURE AND STATE OF MAN WITH.
... virtue , 167. Virtue and vice joined in our mixed nature ; the limits near , yet the things separate and evident . What is the office of reason , 187 , & c . How odious vice 8 THE CONTENTS . ARGUMENT OF THE NATURE AND STATE OF MAN WITH.
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... virtue , 166. That even these can make no man happy without virtue ; instanced in riches , 176. Honours , 184. Birth , 203. Great- ness , 213. Fame , 233. Superior talents , 257. With pictures of human infelicity in men possest of them ...
... virtue , 166. That even these can make no man happy without virtue ; instanced in riches , 176. Honours , 184. Birth , 203. Great- ness , 213. Fame , 233. Superior talents , 257. With pictures of human infelicity in men possest of them ...
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... virtue here ; That never air or ocean felt the wind ; That never passion discompos'd the mind But ALL subsists by elemental strife ; And passions are the elements of life . The gen'ral order , since the whole began , Is kept in nature ...
... virtue here ; That never air or ocean felt the wind ; That never passion discompos'd the mind But ALL subsists by elemental strife ; And passions are the elements of life . The gen'ral order , since the whole began , Is kept in nature ...
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... virtue's name . 100 In lazy apathy let stoics boast ; Their virtue fix'd ; ' tis fix'd as in a frost ; Contracted all , retiring to the breast But strength of mind is exercise , not rest : The rising tempest puts in act the soul , Parts ...
... virtue's name . 100 In lazy apathy let stoics boast ; Their virtue fix'd ; ' tis fix'd as in a frost ; Contracted all , retiring to the breast But strength of mind is exercise , not rest : The rising tempest puts in act the soul , Parts ...
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... virtue with his nature mix'd ; The dross cements what else were too refin'd , And in one int'rest body acts with mind . As fruits , ungrateful to the planter's care , On savage stocks inserted , learn to bear ; The surest virtues thus ...
... virtue with his nature mix'd ; The dross cements what else were too refin'd , And in one int'rest body acts with mind . As fruits , ungrateful to the planter's care , On savage stocks inserted , learn to bear ; The surest virtues thus ...
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alike Amidst beneath Blair blank verse bless'd blessing blest bliss blood boast breast breath charms climes creature dear death e'en e'er earth ease Elegy EPISTLE EPISTLE II eternal ev'n ev'ry fame fear fix'd flies fool form'd gen'ral giv'n grave hand happiness heart Heav'n honour hope hope and fear human instinct int'rest kings land laws learn'd looks lord luxury man's mankind mind monarch moral nature nature's ne'er never o'er OLIVER GOLDSMITH once pain passions plac'd Pleas'd pleasure poem poor pow'r pride proud reason reign rest rich rill rise Robert Blair round Self-love shade shame sire skies slave smiling society soul spread strength swain sweet SWEET AUBURN taught tell thee thine thing thou thro toil Twas tyrant vice village virtue weak wealth Whilst whole wise world unknown wretch yonder
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Страница 19 - 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!
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Страница 114 - Beside yon straggling fence that skirts the way, With blossom'd furze unprofitably gay, There, in his noisy mansion, skill'd to rule, The village master taught his little school. A man severe he was, and stern to view; I knew him well, and every truant knew...
Страница 18 - 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.
Страница 112 - tis hard to combat, learns to fly! For him no wretches, born to work and weep, Explore the mine, or tempt the dangerous deep; No surly porter stands in guilty state, To spurn imploring famine from the gate...
Страница 14 - In Pride, in reas'ning Pride, our error lies; All quit their sphere, and rush into the skies. Pride still is aiming at the blest abodes, Men would be Angels, Angels would be Gods. Aspiring to be Gods, if Angels fell, Aspiring to be Angels, Men rebel: And who but wishes to invert the laws Of Order, sins against th
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Страница 118 - And, pinch'd with cold, and shrinking from the shower, With heavy heart deplores that luckless hour, When idly first, ambitious of the town, She left her wheel and robes of country brown.
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