Essay on Man Index of First Lines
EPISTLE 1
Intro · Awake my St. John! Leave all meaner things …
I · Say, first of God above or man below …
II · Presumptuous Man! the reason wouldst thou find, …
III · Heaven from all creatures hides the book of Fate …
IV · Go wiser thou! and in thy scale of sense…
V · Ask for what end the heavenly bodies shine, …
VI · What would this Man? Now upward will he soar, …
VII · Far as creation’s ample range extends, …
VIII · See through this air, this ocean, and this earth …
IX ·What if the foot, ordain’d the dust to tread, …
X · Cease then, nor Order imperfection name: …
EPISTLE 2
I · Know then thyself, presume not God to scan, …
II · Two principles in human nature reign, …
III · Modes of self-love the passions we may call; …
IV · This light and darkness in our chaos join’d, …
V · Vice is a monster of so frightful mien, …
VI · Virtuous and vicious every man must be …
EPISTLE 3
I · Here, then, we rest: “The Universal Cause …
II · Whether with reason, or with instinct blest, …
III · God in the nature of each being founds …
IV · Nor think, in Nature’s state they blindly trod; …
V · Great Nature spoke; observant men obeyed; …
VI · Till then, by Nature crowned, each patriarch sate, …
EPISTLE 4
I · Happiness! our being’s end and aim! …
II · Take Nature’s path and mad Opinion’s leave …
III · Oh, blind to truth, and God’s whole scheme below, …
IV · “But sometimes virtue starves, while vice is fed.”…
V · Know then this truth (enough for man to know) …
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