The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope: In Four Volumes, Volume 2Charles Whittingham, 1808 |
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... pains we guard , but lose with ease , Sure some to vex , but never all to please ; ' Tis what the vicious fear , the virtuous shun ; By fools ' tis hated , and by knaves undone ! If wit so much from ignorance undergo , Ah , let not ...
... pains we guard , but lose with ease , Sure some to vex , but never all to please ; ' Tis what the vicious fear , the virtuous shun ; By fools ' tis hated , and by knaves undone ! If wit so much from ignorance undergo , Ah , let not ...
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... pain , A thousand movements scarce one purpose gain ; In God's , one single can its end produce , Yet serves to second too some other use : So man , who here seems principal alone , Perhaps acts second to some sphere unknown , Touches ...
... pain , A thousand movements scarce one purpose gain ; In God's , one single can its end produce , Yet serves to second too some other use : So man , who here seems principal alone , Perhaps acts second to some sphere unknown , Touches ...
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... pain ? If nature thunder'd in his opening ears , And stun'd him with the music of the spheres , How would he wish that Heaven had left him still The whispering zephyr and the purling rill ? Who finds not Providence all good and wise ...
... pain ? If nature thunder'd in his opening ears , And stun'd him with the music of the spheres , How would he wish that Heaven had left him still The whispering zephyr and the purling rill ? Who finds not Providence all good and wise ...
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... pains The great directing Mind of All ordains . All are but parts of one stupendous whole , Whose body Nature is , and Gon the soul : That chang'd through all , and yet in all the same , Great in the earth as in the ' ethereal frame ...
... pains The great directing Mind of All ordains . All are but parts of one stupendous whole , Whose body Nature is , and Gon the soul : That chang'd through all , and yet in all the same , Great in the earth as in the ' ethereal frame ...
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... pain : Expunge the whole , or lop the ' excrescent parts Of all our vices have created arts ; Then see how little the remaining sum , Which sery'd the past , and must the times to come ! 2. Two principles in human nature reign , Şelf ...
... pain : Expunge the whole , or lop the ' excrescent parts Of all our vices have created arts ; Then see how little the remaining sum , Which sery'd the past , and must the times to come ! 2. Two principles in human nature reign , Şelf ...
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