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Thus when we view some well-proportion'd dome, . . . . No single parts unequally surprise, All comes united to th' admiring eyes. - Essay on Criticism (pt. II, l. 47) [Architecture] Ah, ne'er so dire a thirst of glory boast, Nor in the Critic let the Man be lost. - Essay on Criticism (pt. II, l. 522) [Criticism] Whoever thinks a faultless piece to see, Thinks what ne'er was, nor is, nor e'er shall be. - Essay on Criticism (pt. II, l. 53) [Perfection] True wit is nature to advantage dress'd, What oft was thought, but ne'er so well expressed. - Essay on Criticism (pt. II, l. 97) [Wit] Nor suffers Horace more in wrong translations By wits, than critics in as wrong quotations. - Essay on Criticism (pt. III, l. 104) [Quotations] 'Tis not enough your counsel still be true; Blunt truths more mischief than nice falsehoods do. - Essay on Criticism (pt. III, l. 13) [Truth] Men must be taught as if you taught them not, And things unknown propos'd as things forgot. - Essay on Criticism (pt. III, l. 15) [Teaching] The learn'd reflect on what before they knew. - Essay on Criticism (pt. III, l. 180) [Reflection] For fools rush in where angels fear to tread. - Essay on Criticism (pt. III, l. 66) [Folly] Led by the light of the Maeonian star. - Essay on Criticism (pt. III, l. 89) [Stars] Some positive persisting fops we know, Who, if once wrong, will needs be always so; But you with pleasure own your errors past, And make each day a critique on the last. - Essay on Criticism (pt. III, l. 9) [Error] A needless Alexandrine ends the song, That, like a wounded snake, drags its slow length along. - Essay on Criticism pt. II, l. 156 [Poetry] Heaven from all creatures hides the book of fate. - Essay on Man (ep. 1, l. 77) [Fate] Zeal then, not charity, became the guide. - Essay on Man (ep. 111, l. 261) [Zeal] Say, shall my little bark attendant sail, Pursue the triumph, and partake the gale? - Essay on Man (ep. 4, l. 385) [Success] In the nice bee, what sense so subtly true From pois'nous herbs extracts the healing dew? - Essay on Man (ep. I, 219) [Bees] Let us (since life can little more supply Than just to look about us and to die) Expatiate free o'er all this scene of man; A might maze! but not without a plan. - Essay on Man (ep. I, l. 1) [Life] To be, contents his natural desire, He asks no angel's wing, no seraph's fire; But thinks, admitted to that equal sky, His faithful dog shall bear him company. Go wiser thou! and in thy scale of sense Weigh thy opinion against Providence. - Essay on Man (ep. I, l. 109) [Dogs] Destroy all creatures for thy sport or gust, Yet cry, if man's unhappy, God's unjust. - Essay on Man (ep. I, l. 117) [Providence] In pride, in reas'ning pride, our error lies; All quit their sphere and rush into the skies. Pride still is aiming at the bless'd abodes, Men would be angels, angels would be gods. - Essay on Man (ep. I, l. 124) [Pride] Men would be angels, angels would be gods. - Essay on Man (ep. I, l. 126) [Angels : Proverbs] Eye nature's walks, shoot folly as it flies, And catch the manners, living as they rise; Laugh where we must, be candid where we can, But vindicate the ways of God to man. - Essay on Man (ep. I, l. 13) [Manners : Nature] Seas roll to waft me, suns to light me rise; My footstool Earth, my canopy the skies. - Essay on Man (ep. I, l. 139) [Nature] Laugh where we must, be candid where we can, But vindicate the ways of God to man. - Essay on Man (ep. I, l. 15) [God] Who know but He, whose hand the lightning forms, Who heaves old ocean, and who wings the storms, Pours fierce ambition in a Caesar's mind. - Essay on Man (ep. I, l. 157) [Ambition] Displaying page 18 of 34 for this author: << Prev Next >> 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 [18] 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34
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