The Works of Alexander Pope, Esq: Moral essaysC. Bathurst, 1770 |
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... Plato's peculiar argument for a future ftate ; and the words here employed - The foul uncafy , etc. his peculiar expreffion . The Poet in this place , there- fore , fays in exprefs terms , that GOD GAVE US HOPE TO SUPPLY THAT FUTURE ...
... Plato's peculiar argument for a future ftate ; and the words here employed - The foul uncafy , etc. his peculiar expreffion . The Poet in this place , there- fore , fays in exprefs terms , that GOD GAVE US HOPE TO SUPPLY THAT FUTURE ...
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... Plato in his Theology , and of Des Cartes in his Phyfiology . Sometimes , fays he , Man believes himself a real God ; and fometimes again , a mere machine : things quite out of the Poet's thought in this place . Again , the Poet , in a ...
... Plato in his Theology , and of Des Cartes in his Phyfiology . Sometimes , fays he , Man believes himself a real God ; and fometimes again , a mere machine : things quite out of the Poet's thought in this place . Again , the Poet , in a ...
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... Plato deep , as Seneca fevere : Fix moral fitness , and to God give rule ,, Then drop into thyself , etc.- VER . 21. Ed . 4th and 5th . Show by what rules the wand'ring planets ftray , Correct old Time , and teach the Sun his way ...
... Plato deep , as Seneca fevere : Fix moral fitness , and to God give rule ,, Then drop into thyself , etc.- VER . 21. Ed . 4th and 5th . Show by what rules the wand'ring planets ftray , Correct old Time , and teach the Sun his way ...
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Alexander Pope. Go , foar with Plato , to th ' empyreal sphere , - To the first good , first perfect , and first fair ; Or tread the mazy round his follow'rs trod , 25 And quitting sense call imitating God ; As Eastern priests in giddy ...
Alexander Pope. Go , foar with Plato , to th ' empyreal sphere , - To the first good , first perfect , and first fair ; Or tread the mazy round his follow'rs trod , 25 And quitting sense call imitating God ; As Eastern priests in giddy ...
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... Plato advifes ; and to restrain Spleen to a contempt and hatred of Vice . This is what the Poet meant ; and what every unprejudiced man could not but fee he muft needs mean , by RECTIFYING THE MASTER PASSION , though he had not confined ...
... Plato advifes ; and to restrain Spleen to a contempt and hatred of Vice . This is what the Poet meant ; and what every unprejudiced man could not but fee he muft needs mean , by RECTIFYING THE MASTER PASSION , though he had not confined ...
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