Oeuvres, Том 16

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Страница 68 - all the same; Great in the earth, as in the ethereal frame; 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; Breathes in our soul, informs oui' mortal part, As full, as perfect, in
Страница 150 - Draw to one point, and to one centre bring Beast, man, or angel, servant, lord, or king. For forms of government let fools contest ; Whate'er is best administer'd is best: 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
Страница 54 - contents his natural desire, He asks no angel's wing, no seraph's fire ; But thinks, admitted to that equal sky, His faithful dog shall bear him company. Go, wiser thou! and in thy scale of sense, Weigh thy opinion against Providence; Call imperfection what thou fanciest such ; Say, here he gives too little, there too much
Страница 46 - AWAKE, my St John ! leave all meaner things To low ambition, and the pride of kings. Let us (since life can little more supply Than just to look about us, and to die) Expatiate free o'er all this scene of man ; A mighty maze ! but not without a plan : A wild, where weeds and flowers promiscuous
Страница 64 - superior powers Were we to press, inferior might on ours; Or in the full creation leave a void, Where, one step broken, the great scale's destroyed : From nature's chain whatever link you strike, Tenth, or ten thousandth, breaks the chain alike. A
Страница 88 - Two principles in human nature reign ; Self-love to urge, and reason to restrain; Nor this a good, nor that a bad we call, Each works its end, to move or govern all : And to their proper operation still, Ascribe all good ; to their improper, ill. Self-love, the spring of motion, acts the soul; Reason's comparing balance rules the whole.
Страница 192 - For ever exercised, yet never tired; Never elated, while one man's oppress'd ; Never dejected, while another's bless'd : And where no wants, no wishes can remain, Since but to wish more virtue, is to gain. See the sole bliss Heaven could on all bestow ! Which who but feels can taste, but thinks can know;
Страница 152 - On their own axis as the planets run, Yet make at once their circle round the sun ; So two consistent motions act the soul; And one regards itself, and one the whole. Thus God and nature link'd the general frame, And bade self-love and social be the same.
Страница 184 - these can cheat ; Tis phrase absurd to call a villain great : 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,
Страница 136 - attribute was universal care, And man's prerogative, to rule, but spare. Ah ! how unlike the man of times to come ! Of half that live the butcher and the tomb; Who, foe to nature, hears the general groan, Murders their species, and betrays his own. But just disease to luxury succeeds, And every death its own avenger breeds;

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