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The Oxford English Prize Essays: A New Edition Brought Down to the Present Time - Page 23
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Essay on man, and The universal prayer

Alexander Pope - 1860 - 60 pages
...Hence different 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...
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Poetical Works: To which is Prefixed a Life of the Author

Alexander Pope - 1860 - 632 pages
...different passions more or less inllame As strong or weak, the organs of the frar.'ej 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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An index to familiar quotations selected principally from British authors ...

John Cooper Grocott - 1863 - 562 pages
...is but the weaving of new sorrow. SIR JOHN SUCELING. — A Letter to his dear Princess. PASSION.— One master passion in the breast, Like Aaron's serpent, swallows up the rest. POPE. — Essay on Man, Epi. II. Line 181. PASSIVE OBEDIEyCE.— Passive obedience was a jest;...
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Bentley's Miscellany, Volume 60

Charles Dickens, William Harrison Ainsworth, Albert Smith - 1866 - 692 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.f Quite different is the process, however similar practically may be the result, described by...
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Kate Marstone: Or, Happy Hearts Make Happy Homes

1866 - 324 pages
...unchanged. To thee we trust For incorruptible treasure ; — Thou art just." CHAPTER XIV. • •' One master passion In the breast Like Aaron's serpent, swallows up the rest" 'T was about a month after Dr. Murray's death; the evening dark and stormy without ; but the...
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A Dictionary of Quotations from the English Poets

Henry George Bohn - 1867 - 752 pages
...o'er his gold, and griping still at more, Sits sadly pining, and believes he's poor. Dryden. And hence one master passion in the breast, Like Aaron's serpent, swallows up the rest. Pope, EMn13\. Eiches, like insects, when conceal'd they lie, Wait but for wings, and in their...
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An Essay on Man

Alexander Pope - 1867 - 72 pages
...Hence different 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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Collections of the New York Historical Society: The John Watts De ..., Volume 6

1874 - 518 pages
...in his rambles, his body suffers much by his abstinence. Yet he contradicts the poet when he says, One master passion in the breast Like Aaron's serpent swallows up the rest For our Hero with this sordid quality, which is cominonly deemed sufficient ballast against levity,...
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Cues from All Quarters: Or, The Literary Musings of a Clerical Recluse

Francis Jacox - 1871 - 354 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. In one of his metrical Tales, Crabbe speaks of Grievous events, that from the mem'ry drive Life's...
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The poetical works of Alexander Pope. With memoir, critical diss., and ...

Alexander Pope - 1872 - 744 pages
...different 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 young...
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