The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope: In Four Volumes, Volume 2Charles Whittingham, 1808 |
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... Heaven derive their light , These born to judge , as well as those to write . Let such teach others who themselves excel , And censure freely who have written well . Authors are partial to their wit , ' tis true , But are not critics to ...
... Heaven derive their light , These born to judge , as well as those to write . Let such teach others who themselves excel , And censure freely who have written well . Authors are partial to their wit , ' tis true , But are not critics to ...
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... Heaven's free subjects might their rights dispute , Lest God himself should seem too absolute : Pulpits their sacred satire learn'd to spare , And vice admir'd to find a flatterer there ! Encourag'd thus , wit's Titans brav'd the skies ...
... Heaven's free subjects might their rights dispute , Lest God himself should seem too absolute : Pulpits their sacred satire learn'd to spare , And vice admir'd to find a flatterer there ! Encourag'd thus , wit's Titans brav'd the skies ...
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... Heaven has made us as we are : But of this frame , the bearings and the ties , The strong connexions , nice dependences , Gradations just , has thy pervading soul Look'd through ; or can a part contain the whole ? Is the great chain ...
... Heaven has made us as we are : But of this frame , the bearings and the ties , The strong connexions , nice dependences , Gradations just , has thy pervading soul Look'd through ; or can a part contain the whole ? Is the great chain ...
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... dulness comprehend His actions ' , passions ' , being's , use and end ; Why doing , suffering , check'd , impell'd ; and why This hour a slave , the next a deity . Then say not man's imperfect , Heaven in fault ; ESSAY ON MAN . 29.
... dulness comprehend His actions ' , passions ' , being's , use and end ; Why doing , suffering , check'd , impell'd ; and why This hour a slave , the next a deity . Then say not man's imperfect , Heaven in fault ; ESSAY ON MAN . 29.
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... Heaven from all creatures hides the book of 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 to day , Had he ...
... Heaven from all creatures hides the book of 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 to day , Had he ...
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