 | Lindley Murray - 1819 - 718 pàgines
...Sexes still more are we to guard against those intemperate Indulgences of Pleasure to which the youns; are unhappily prone The bliss of man could pride that...find Is not to act or think beyond mankind Or why BO long in life if long can be Lent Heav'na parent to the poor and me CHAPTER Vi. PROMISCUOUS EXAMPLES... | |
 | Thomas Ewing - 1819 - 448 pàgines
...greater now than it was in the fourth century ? Of all this there is sufficient reason to doubt. 9. The bliss of man, (could pride that blessing find), Is not to act or think beyond mankind. 10. Where thy true treasure ? Gold says, " not in me :" And, " not in me," the di'mond, Gold is poor.... | |
 | 1824 - 604 pàgines
...experience. Pope has happily described, in two lines, wherein the felicity of man consists : — " The bliss of man, could pride that blessing find, Is not to think or lot above mankind." The full meaning of which, I conceive to be, is, That each individual... | |
 | John Aikin - 1820 - 832 pàgines
...man alone? Shall he alone, whom rational we call, Be pleas'd with nothing, if not blest with all ? misery no more, But agony unmix'd, incessant gall, Corroding every thought, and blastin ; No powers of body or of soul to- share, But what his nature and his state can bear. Why has not man... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1820 - 80 pàgines
...man alone? Shall he alone, whom rational we call, Be pleas'd with nothing, if not bless'd with all? The bliss of man (could pride that blessing find) Is, not to act, or think lieyend mankind; No powers of body, or of soul to share, But what his nature and his state cap bear.... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1821 - 254 pàgines
...prématurée ? Ah! si par sa valeur le fils est immolé , Pourquoi , surchargé d'ans et d'honneurs accablé , Or why so long ( in life if long can be ) Lent Heav'na parent to the poor and me ? V. What makes all physical or moral ill ? There deviates Nature , and here wanders Will. God sends... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1821 - 268 pàgines
...Man alone ? Shall he alone, whom rational we call, Be pleas'd with nothing, if not bless'd with all ? The bliss of Man ( could Pride that blessing find ) Is, not to act or think beyond mankind; No pow'rs of body or of soul to share, But what his nature and his state can bear. Why has not Man... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1821 - 86 pàgines
...man alone ? Shall he alone, whom rational we call, Be pleas'd with nothing, if not blest with all ? The bliss of man (could pride that blessing find) Is not to act or think beyond mankind ; 190 No pow'rs of body or of soul to share, But what his nature and his state can bear. Why has not... | |
 | John Aikin - 1821 - 402 pàgines
...man alone? Shall he alone, whom rational we call, Be pleas'd with nothing, if not blest with all ? The bliss of man (could Pride that blessing find) Is not to act or think beyond mankind ; No powers of body or of soul to share, But what his nature and his state can bear. Why has not man... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1821 - 252 pàgines
...alone ? Shall he alone , whom rational we call , Be pléased \vith nothing , if not bless'd with all ? The bliss of Man ( could Pride that blessing find) Is not to act or think beyond mankind ; No pow'rs of body, or of soul to share , But what his nature and his state can bear. Why has not... | |
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No powers of body or of soul to share, But what his nature and his state can bear. Why has not man a microscopic eye ? For this plain reason, man is not a fly. Say what the use were finer optics given, T... 
