Sämmtliche schriften: Pope, ein metaphysiker, 1755. Fabeln, 1759. etc

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Seite 13 - Were we to press, inferior might on ours; Or in the full creation leave a void, Where, one step broken, the great scale's destroy'd: From Nature's chain whatever link you strike, Tenth, or ten thousandth, breaks the chain alike. And, if each system in gradation roll Alike essential to th' amazing whole, The least confusion but in one, not all That system only, but the whole must fall.
Seite 35 - I have only one piece of mercy to beg of you ; do not laugh at my gravity, but permit me to wear the beard of a philosopher, till I pull it off, and make a jest of it myself.
Seite 413 - Un vieux renard, mais des plus fins, Grand croqueur de poulets, grand preneur de lapins, Sentant son renard d'une lieue, Fut enfin au piège attrapé.
Seite 29 - I can only fay, you do him too much " honour, and me too much right, fo odd " as the expreffion feems ; for you have *' made my fyftem as clear as I ought to have " done, and could not. It is indeed the
Seite 27 - All are but parts of one ftupendous whole, Whofe body Nature is, and God the foul : That, chang'd thro...
Seite 31 - Who knows but he, whose hand the light'ning forms, Who heaves old ocean, and who wings the storms; Pours fierce ambition in a Caesar's mind, Or turns young Ammon loose to scourge mankind?
Seite 29 - ... when it is glorified. I am fure I like it better than I did before, and fo will every man elfe. I know I meant juft what you explain, but I did not explain my own meaning fo well as you. You underftand me as well as I do myfelf, but you exprefs me better than I could exprefs myfelf. Pray accept the fincereft acknowledgements. I cannot but wifh...
Seite 65 - Semiramis urbem. notitiam primosque gradus vicinia fecit, tempore crevit amor; taedae quoque iure coissent, 60 sed vetuere patres: quod non potuere vetare, ex aequo captis ardebant mentibus ambo. conscius omnis abest; nutu signisque loquuntur, quoque magis tegitur, tectus magis aestuat ignis.
Seite 29 - you have made my fyftem as clear as " I ought to have done, and could not. " It is indeed the fame fyftem as mine, " but illuftrated with a ray of your own,. •' as they fay our natural body is the " fame ftill when it is glorified.
Seite 34 - tis confeft, That Wifdom infinite muft form the beft, Where all muft full, or not coherent be, And all that rifes, rife in due degree ; Then, in the fcale of...

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