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An Essay on the Genius and Writings of Pope ... - Page 109
by Joseph Warton - 1806
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Rationalism: A Treatise for the Times

George Jacob Holyoake - 1845 - 66 pages
...Crates acknowledged it when he declared " Pomp is a terrible sophister." —Pope, when he wrote Hannen with fortunes, humours turn with climes, Tenets with books, and principles with times. Gray's famous Elegy is a running commentary upon it. Johnson enforced it in part, when he said—"...
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The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope: To which is Prefixed, a Life of the ...

Alexander Pope - 1846 - 328 pages
...uncertainty divides: By passions 1 these dissimulation hides: Opinions ? they still take a wider range : 170 Find, if you can, in what you cannot change. Manners...climes, Tenets with books, and principles with times. III. Search then the ruling passion: There, alone, The wild are constant, and the cunning known ; The...
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Wit and Humor, Selected from the English Poets: With an Illustrative Essay ...

Leigh Hunt - 1846 - 412 pages
...originated in an instinct of weakness. CHARACTERS AND RULING PASSIONS. CHARACTEE OF THE DUKE OF WHARTON. Manners with fortunes, humours turn with climes, Tenets with books, and principles with times. Search then the Ruling Passion : there, alone, The wild are constant, and the cunning known ; The fool...
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Wit and Humour, Selected from the English Poets: With an Illustrative Essay ...

Leigh Hunt - 1846 - 386 pages
...originated in an instinct of weakness. CHARACTERS AND RULING PASSIONS. CHARACTER OF THE DUKE OF WHARTON. Manners with fortunes, humours turn with climes, Tenets with books, and principles with times. Search then the Ruling Passion : there, alone, The wild are constant, and the cunning known ; The fool...
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The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope: To which is Prefixed a Life of the Author

Alexander Pope - 1848 - 642 pages
...frown'd. Judge we hy nature? hahit can efface, Interest o'ercome, or policy take place : By actions 1 those uncertainty divides : By passions? these dissimulation hides : Opinions? they still take a wider range : 170 Find, if you can, in what you cannot change. Manners with fortunes, humours turn with climes,...
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POPE, SELECTED POEMS; THE ESSAY ON CRITICISM; THE MORAL ESSAYS; THE DUNCIAD

THOMAS ARNOLD - 1876 - 312 pages
...chanced to meet a minister that frown'd. Judge we by nature ?—habit can efface, Interest o'ercome, or policy take place : By actions ?—those uncertainty...change. Manners with fortunes, humours turn with climes, 170 Tenets with books, and principles with times. Search then the Ruling Passion : there, alone, The...
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Chaucer to Burns

Rossiter Johnson - 1876 - 840 pages
...habit can efface, Interest o'ercome, or policy take place : By actions? thine uncertainty dividesBy s of the coming storm; And up among the loose disjointed cliffs, And fractur'd chnnge. Manners with fortunes, humors turn with climes, Tenets with books, and principles with limes....
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Addison to Blake

Thomas Humphry Ward - 1880 - 642 pages
...Or chanc'd to meet a minister that frown'd. Judge we by nature? habit can efface, Interest o'ercome, or policy take place : By actions ? those uncertainty...climes, Tenets with books, and principles with times. Search then the ruling passion : there, alone, The wild are constant, and the cunning known ; The fool...
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The English Poets: Addison to Blake

Thomas Humphry Ward - 1880 - 636 pages
...chanc'd to meet a minister that frown'd. Judge we by nature ? habit can efface, Interest o'ercome, or policy take place : By actions ? those uncertainty...climes, Tenets with books, and principles with times. Search then the ruling passion : there, alone, The wild are constant, and the cunning known ; The fool...
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The English Poets: Selections with Critical Introductions by ..., Volume 3

Matthew Arnold - 1881 - 632 pages
...chanc'd to meet a minister that frown'd. Judge we by nature? habit can eft'ace, Interest o'ercome, or policy take place: By actions ? those uncertainty...climes, Tenets with books, and principles with times. Search then the ruling passion : there, alone, The wild are constant, and the cunning known ; The fool...
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