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Flavia's a wit , has too much sense to pray ; To toast our wants and wishes is her way ; Nor asks of God , but of her stars , to give The mighty blessing , " While we live , to live . " 90 Then all for death , that opiate of the soul !
Flavia's a wit , has too much sense to pray ; To toast our wants and wishes is her way ; Nor asks of God , but of her stars , to give The mighty blessing , " While we live , to live . " 90 Then all for death , that opiate of the soul !
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The way to be happy is to live according to nature , in obedience to that universal and unalterable law with which every heart is originally impressed ; which is not written on it by precept , but engraven by destiny , not instilled by ...
The way to be happy is to live according to nature , in obedience to that universal and unalterable law with which every heart is originally impressed ; which is not written on it by precept , but engraven by destiny , not instilled by ...
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To live without feeling or exciting sympathy , to be fortunate without adding to the felicity of others , or afflicted without tasting the balm of pity , is a state more gloomy than solitude : it is not retreat but exclusion from ...
To live without feeling or exciting sympathy , to be fortunate without adding to the felicity of others , or afflicted without tasting the balm of pity , is a state more gloomy than solitude : it is not retreat but exclusion from ...
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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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