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The Oxford English prize essays - Page 23
by Oxford univ, prize essays - 1836
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An essay on man. Cornish ed

Alexander Pope - 1798 - 140 pages
...Hence diff'rent passions more or less inflame, As strong or weak the organs of the frame ; And hence one master passion in the breast, Like Aaron's serpent, swallows up the rest. As man, perhaps, the moment of his breath, Receives the lurking principle of death ; The young...
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La Belle Assemblée, Volume 5

1808 - 408 pages
...Hence different passions more or less inßumc, Ли strong or weak the organs of the frame ; And hence one master passion in the breast, Like Aaron's serpent swallows up the rest. As man, perhaps, the moment of his breath, Receives the lurking principle of death ; The yonng...
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Works, Volume 1

Samuel Johnson - 1809 - 372 pages
...Henee different passions more or less inflame, As strong or weak the organs of the frame. And henee one master passion in the breast, Like Aaron's serpent, swallows up the rest. Brumoy says, Pascal from his infancy felt himself a geometrician ; and Vandyke, in like manner,...
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Self Knowledge: A Treatise, Shewing the Nature and Benefit of that Important ...

John Mason - 1809 - 232 pages
...Hence diffVeni passions more or less inflame, As strong or weak, the organs of the frame ; And hence one master passion in the breast, Like Aaron's serpent swallows up the rest. Nature its mother, habit is its nurse ; Wit, spirit, faculties, but make it worse j R:ason itself...
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The Works of the English Poets, from Chaucer to Cowper: Including ..., Volume 12

Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 546 pages
...different passions more or lew inflame, As strong or weak, the organs of the frame . 130. And hence one master passion in the breast, Like Aaron's serpent, swallows up the rest. As man, perhaps, the moment of his breath, Receives the lurking principle of Death; The young...
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The works of Alexander Pope. With a selection of explanatory notes ..., Volume 3

Alexander Pope - 1812 - 348 pages
...difPrent passions more or less inflame, As strong or weak, the organs of the frame ; 130 And hence one MASTER PASSION in the breast, Like Aaron's serpent, swallows up the rest. As man, perhaps, the moment of his breath, Receives the lurking principle of death ; The After...
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Elements of Criticism, Volume 2

Lord Henry Home Kames - 1816 - 452 pages
...or two from the Essay on Man, the gravest and most instructive of all his performances : And hence one master passion in the breast, Like Aaron's serpent swallows up the rest. Epi't. i\. 1. 131. And again, talking of this same ruling or master passion : Nature its mother,...
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Elements of criticism [by H. Home].

Henry Home (lord Kames.), Lord Henry Home Kames - 1817 - 532 pages
...or two from the Essay on Man, the gravest and most instructive of all his performances : And hence one master passion in the breast, Like Aaron's serpent, swallows up the rest. Epist. 2. /. 131. And again, talking of this same ruling or master passion: Reason Itself but...
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Select Works of the British Poets: With Biographical and Critical ..., Volume 1

John Aikin - 1820 - 832 pages
...Hence ditl'erent passions more or less inflame. As strong or weak, the 'organs of the frame ; And hence rest. As man, perhaps, the moment of his breath, Receives the lurking principle of Death; The young...
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L'essai sur l'homme

Alexander Pope - 1821 - 254 pages
...Hence difTrent passions more or less inflame , As strong or weak , the organs of the frame ; And hence one MASTER PASSION in the breast , Like Aaron's serpent , swallows up the rest. Moderons leur ardeur , sans éteindre leur feu , Et suivons à-la-fois et la nature et Dieu....
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