Essay on ManClarendon Press, 1869 - 116 páginas |
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... perfect type may be said to have been in posses- sion of the poetical stage for the century from 1660 to 1760. It may be broadly contrasted with the poetry which preceded , and with that which followed by its aim . The common aim of the ...
... perfect type may be said to have been in posses- sion of the poetical stage for the century from 1660 to 1760. It may be broadly contrasted with the poetry which preceded , and with that which followed by its aim . The common aim of the ...
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... ; and why This hour a slave , the next a deity . Then say not man's imperfect , heav'n in fault ; Say rather , man's as perfect as he ought : 40 50 60 70 His knowledge measur'd to his state and place ; His FIRST EPISTLE . 29.
... ; and why This hour a slave , the next a deity . Then say not man's imperfect , heav'n in fault ; Say rather , man's as perfect as he ought : 40 50 60 70 His knowledge measur'd to his state and place ; His FIRST EPISTLE . 29.
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... perfect in a certain sphere , What matter , soon or late , or here , or there ? The blest to - day is as completely so , As who began a thousand years ago . Heav'n from all creatures hides the book of fate , All but the page prescrib'd ...
... perfect in a certain sphere , What matter , soon or late , or here , or there ? The blest to - day is as completely so , As who began a thousand years ago . Heav'n from all creatures hides the book of fate , All but the page prescrib'd ...
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... perfect here , immortal there : Snatch from his hand the balance and the rod , Re - judge his justice , be the God of God . In pride , in reas'ning pride , our error lies ; All quit their sphere , and rush into the skies . Pride still ...
... perfect here , immortal there : Snatch from his hand the balance and the rod , Re - judge his justice , be the God of God . In pride , in reas'ning pride , our error lies ; All quit their sphere , and rush into the skies . Pride still ...
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... perfect ? ' - Why then man ? If the great end be human happiness , Then nature deviates ; and can man do less ? As much that end a constant course requires Of show'rs and sun - shine , as of man's desires ; As much eternal springs and ...
... perfect ? ' - Why then man ? If the great end be human happiness , Then nature deviates ; and can man do less ? As much that end a constant course requires Of show'rs and sun - shine , as of man's desires ; As much eternal springs and ...
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Página 30 - That changed through all, and yet in 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...
Página 32 - 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...
Página 30 - Cease then, nor order imperfection name; Our proper bliss depends on what we blame. Know thy own point: this kind this due degree Of blindness, weakness, Heav'n bestows on thee. Submit. — In this, or any other sphere, Secure to be as blest as thou canst bear: Safe in the hand of one disposing Power, Or in the natal, or the mortal hour.
Página 27 - Why has not man a microscopic eye ? For this plain reason, man is not a fly.
Página 25 - Lo the poor Indian ! whose untutor'd 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 ; Yet simple nature to his hope has giv'n, Behind the cloud-topt hill...
Página 26 - Annual for me, the grape, the rose renew The juice nectareous, and the balmy dew; For me, the mine a thousand treasures brings; For me, health gushes from a thousand springs; Seas roll to waft me, suns to light me rise; My foot-stool earth, my canopy the skies.
Página 24 - Heav'n from all creatures hides the book of fate, All but the page prescrib'd, 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? Pleas'd to the last, he crops the flow'ry food, And licks the hand just rais'd to shed his blood.
Página 79 - From harmony, from heavenly harmony This universal frame began : From harmony to harmony Through all the compass of the notes it ran, The diapason closing full in Man.
Página 46 - 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. Pride then was not; nor arts, that pride to aid; Man walk'd with beast, joint tenant of the shade, The same his table, and the same his bed; No murder cloath'd him, and no murder fed.
Página 59 - Heroes are much the same, the point's agreed, From Macedonia's madman to the Swede: The whole strange purpose of their lives, to find Or make an enemy of all mankind ! Not one looks backward, onward still he goes, Yet ne'er looks forward further than his nose.