The Works of the English Poets: PopeH. Hughs, 1779 - English poetry |
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... Thee ! Flames that could mount , and gain their kindred skies , Low creeping in the putrid fink of vice : A Mufe whom Wisdom woo'd , but woo'd in vain , The Pimp of Power , the Prostitute to Gain : Wreaths , that fhould deck fair ...
... Thee ! Flames that could mount , and gain their kindred skies , Low creeping in the putrid fink of vice : A Mufe whom Wisdom woo'd , but woo'd in vain , The Pimp of Power , the Prostitute to Gain : Wreaths , that fhould deck fair ...
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... thee with kind contention ftrove , For thee the Graces left th ' Idalian grove ; With watchful fondness o'er thy cradle hung , Attun'd thy voice , and form'd thy infant tongue . Next , to her Bard majestic Wifdom came ; The bard ...
... thee with kind contention ftrove , For thee the Graces left th ' Idalian grove ; With watchful fondness o'er thy cradle hung , Attun'd thy voice , and form'd thy infant tongue . Next , to her Bard majestic Wifdom came ; The bard ...
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... thee be given . Thy Genius was indeed a Gift from Heaven . Hail , Bard unequal'd , in whofe deathless line Reason and wit with ftrength collected shine ; Where matchless Wit but wins the second praise , Loft , nobly loft , in Truth's ...
... thee be given . Thy Genius was indeed a Gift from Heaven . Hail , Bard unequal'd , in whofe deathless line Reason and wit with ftrength collected shine ; Where matchless Wit but wins the second praise , Loft , nobly loft , in Truth's ...
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... thee ? 30 II . Prefumptuous Man ! the reason wouldst thou find , Why form'd fo weak , fo little , and fo blind ? First , if thou canft , the harder reafon guess , Why form'd no weaker , blinder , and no lefs ? Ask of thy mother earth ...
... thee ? 30 II . Prefumptuous Man ! the reason wouldst thou find , Why form'd fo weak , fo little , and fo blind ? First , if thou canft , the harder reafon guess , Why form'd no weaker , blinder , and no lefs ? Ask of thy mother earth ...
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... thee to know , But gives that Hope to be thy bleffing now . Hope fprings eternal in the human breast : Man never Is , but always To be bleft : The foul , uneafy , and confin'd from home , Refts and expatiates in a life to come . Lo ...
... thee to know , But gives that Hope to be thy bleffing now . Hope fprings eternal in the human breast : Man never Is , but always To be bleft : The foul , uneafy , and confin'd from home , Refts and expatiates in a life to come . Lo ...
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Page 41 - 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...
Page 29 - The latent tracts, the giddy heights explore Of all who blindly creep, or sightless soar; Eye Nature's walks, shoot folly as it flies, And catch the manners living as they rise; Laugh where we must, be candid where we can; But vindicate the ways of God to man.
Page 39 - 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...
Page 77 - 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!
Page 50 - Fools ! who from hence into the notion fall, That vice or virtue there is none at all. If white and black blend, soften, and unite A thousand ways, is there no black or white?
Page 156 - Pretty! in amber to observe the forms Of hairs, or straws, or dirt, or grubs, or worms! The things, we know, are neither rich nor rare, But wonder how the devil they got there.
Page 60 - 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.
Page 64 - For nature knew no right divine in men ; No ill could fear in God, and understood A...
Page 69 - Parnassian laurels yield, Or reap'd in iron harvests of the field ? • Where grows ? — where grows it not? If vain our toil, We ought to blame the culture, not the soil...
Page 56 - Who for thy table feeds the wanton fawn, For him as kindly spread the flow'ry lawn : Is it for thee the lark ascends and sings? Joy tunes his voice, joy elevates his wings.