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Order is Heaven's first law ; and , this confess'd , Some are , and must be , greater than the rest , 50 More rich , more wise ; but who infers from hence That such are happier , shocks all common sense . Heaven to mankind impartial we ...
Order is Heaven's first law ; and , this confess'd , Some are , and must be , greater than the rest , 50 More rich , more wise ; but who infers from hence That such are happier , shocks all common sense . Heaven to mankind impartial we ...
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Say , was it virtue , more though Heaven ne'er gave , Lamented Digby ? sunk thee to the grave ? Tell me , if virtue made the son expire , Why , full of days and honour , lives the sire ? Why drew Marseilles ' good bishop purer breath ...
Say , was it virtue , more though Heaven ne'er gave , Lamented Digby ? sunk thee to the grave ? Tell me , if virtue made the son expire , Why , full of days and honour , lives the sire ? Why drew Marseilles ' good bishop purer breath ...
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Perhaps the Christian volume is the theme , How guiltless blood for guilty man was shed ; How He , who bore in Heaven the second name , Had not on earth whereon to lay His head : 130 How His first followers and servants sped ...
Perhaps the Christian volume is the theme , How guiltless blood for guilty man was shed ; How He , who bore in Heaven the second name , Had not on earth whereon to lay His head : 130 How His first followers and servants sped ...
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Contents
General Introduction | 1 |
Alexander Pope | 15 |
ESSAY ON MAN | 60 |
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| Title | The Enlightenment and English Literature: Prose and Poetry of the Eighteenth Century, with Selected Modern Critical Essays |
| Editor | John L. Mahoney |
| Publisher | D. C. Heath, 1980 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 29 Feb 2008 |
| ISBN | 0669023213, 9780669023213 |
| Length | 765 pages |
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