The Works of Alexander Pope, Esq: Moral essaysC. Bathurst, 1770 |
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... moft fubtly true , From pois'nous Vice fhe draws a healing dew : 110 Weak are the ties that civil arts can find , To quell the ferment of the tainted mind : Cunning evades , fecurely wrapt in wiles ; And Force ftrong finew'd rends th ...
... moft fubtly true , From pois'nous Vice fhe draws a healing dew : 110 Weak are the ties that civil arts can find , To quell the ferment of the tainted mind : Cunning evades , fecurely wrapt in wiles ; And Force ftrong finew'd rends th ...
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... moft ; Folly the Laureat's , Vice was Chartres ' boast : Then where's the wrong , to gibbet high the name Of Fools and Knaves already dead to shame ? 160 Oft SATIRE acts the faithful Surgeon's part ; Gen'rous and kind , tho ' painful is ...
... moft ; Folly the Laureat's , Vice was Chartres ' boast : Then where's the wrong , to gibbet high the name Of Fools and Knaves already dead to shame ? 160 Oft SATIRE acts the faithful Surgeon's part ; Gen'rous and kind , tho ' painful is ...
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... moft logical fupport of all that had preceded . For the Poet having , as we fay , laboured through his epiftle to prove , that every thing in the Universe tends , by a foreseen contrivance , and a prefent direction of all its parts , to ...
... moft logical fupport of all that had preceded . For the Poet having , as we fay , laboured through his epiftle to prove , that every thing in the Universe tends , by a foreseen contrivance , and a prefent direction of all its parts , to ...
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... moft given up to Pride ; especially to that kind which confifts in a boasted knowledge of Man , the effects of which pride are fo well ex- pofed in the first Epiftle . The Poet , therefore , to convince them that this ftudy is lefs eafy ...
... moft given up to Pride ; especially to that kind which confifts in a boasted knowledge of Man , the effects of which pride are fo well ex- pofed in the first Epiftle . The Poet , therefore , to convince them that this ftudy is lefs eafy ...
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... moft outrageous Scepticism ; " Ce n'eft que pour mourir , qu'il eft né , qu'il respire , " Et toute fa raifon n ' eft prefque qu'un delire . " VOL . III . G and In doubt his Mind or Body to prefer ; Born EP . II . ESSAY ON MAN . 81.
... moft outrageous Scepticism ; " Ce n'eft que pour mourir , qu'il eft né , qu'il respire , " Et toute fa raifon n ' eft prefque qu'un delire . " VOL . III . G and In doubt his Mind or Body to prefer ; Born EP . II . ESSAY ON MAN . 81.
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