EPISTLE 1 Intro · Awake my St. John! Leave all meaner things...
Category : Epistle 1
The intro of Alexander Pope's Essay on Man, addressed to Lord Henry...
Say, first, of God above, or man below, what can we reason...
"Presumptuous man! the reason wouldst thou find, why form'd so weak, so...
"Heav'n from all creatures hides the book of Fate, all but the...
"Go, wiser thou! and in thy scale of sense weigh thy opinion...
"Ask for what end the heavenly bodies shine, Earth for whose use......
"What would this Man? Now upward will he soar, and, little less...
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