Essay on man. Moral essays. An essay on satireJ. Johnson, 1806 |
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abfurd alſo anſwer aſks Author beauty becauſe beſt bleſſing bleſt bliſs Cæfar cauſe character COMMENTARY conclufion confequently creature deſcribed deſign Effay Epiſtle Eſſay eſt ev'ry evil faid falſe fame fatire firſt folly fome fool foul fublime fuch give Happineſs hath Heav'n human illuſtration inſtance Inſtinct intereſt itſelf juſt King laſt leſs Lord Lordſhip Lucretius mankind mind moral moſt muſt Nature neceſſary NOTES obſerved occafion paſſage Paſſions perfect perſon Philofophical pleaſe pleaſure Poet Pope pow'r preſent pride principle publiſhed purpoſe raiſe Reaſon Religion reſpect reſt Ruling Paffion ſaid ſame ſays ſcience ſecond ſee ſeems ſeen Self-love ſenſe ſerve ſet ſeveral ſhade ſhall ſhe ſhewn ſhews ſhould ſmall ſome ſpeaking ſpecies ſpirit ſtands ſtate ſtill ſtrength ſtrike ſtrong ſubject ſuch ſupport ſuppoſed ſyſtem taſte thee theſe theſe lines things thoſe thou Tranſlator truth UNIVERSITY UNIVERSITY uſe verſe Vice Virtue WARBURTON WARTON whole whoſe
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第 56 頁 - 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.
第 52 頁 - 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.
第 64 頁 - Know then thyself, presume not God to scan, The proper study of mankind is man. Placed on this isthmus of a middle state, A being darkly wise, and rudely great: 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...
第 147 頁 - 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...
第 247 頁 - I must paint it. Come then, the colours and the ground prepare ! Dip in the Rainbow, trick her off in Air ; Choose a firm Cloud, before it fall, and in it Catch, ere she change, the Cynthia of this minute.
第 48 頁 - To serve mere engines to the ruling mind ? Just as absurd for any part to claim To be another in this...
第 105 頁 - 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.
第 306 頁 - Or in proud falls magnificently lost, But clear and artless, pouring through the plain Health to the sick, and solace to the swain.
第 15 頁 - Say first, of God above, or man below, What can we reason, but from what we know ? Of man, what see we but his station here, From which to reason, or to which refer ? Thro' worlds unnumber'd tho' the God be known, "Tis ours to trace him only in our own.
第 65 頁 - 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!