 | John Bell - English poetry - 1796 - 524 pages
...guide; First strip oft'all her equipage of pride; Deduct what is but vanity or dress, 4$ Or learning.'s luxury, or idleness ; Or tricks to shew the stretch...human brain, Mere curious pleasure, or ingenious pain; Expunge the whole, or lop th' excrescent parts Of all ourvices havecreated arts; 59 Then see how little... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1798 - 140 pages
...guide ; First strip off all her equipage of pride ; Deduct w'hat is but vanity, or dress, Or learning's luxury, or idleness ; Or tricks to shew the stretch...human brain, Mere curious pleasure, or ingenious pain ; Expunge the whole, or lop th' excrescent parts Of all our vices have created arts ; Then see bow... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1804 - 232 pages
...; First strip off all her equipage of pride ; Deduct what is but vanity or dress, 45 Or learning's luxury, or idleness : Or tricks to shew the stretch...human brain, Mere curious pleasure, or ingenious pain ; Expunge the whole, or lop th' excrescent parts Of all our vices have created arts ; 50 Then see how... | |
 | Ely Bates - Country life - 1804 - 422 pages
...exertions will be lost in those elaborate trifles, which are properly denominated, by one of our poets, Tricks to shew the stretch of human brain, Mere curious pleasure, or ingenious pain. 2. Moral Philosophy. From natural and mathematical philosophy, let us pass on to moral, which, to a... | |
 | Joseph Warton - 1806 - 440 pages
...guide; First strip off all her equipage of pride ; Deduct what is but vanity, or dress, Or learning's luxury, or idleness; Or tricks to shew the stretch...human brain, Mere curious pleasure, or ingenious pain ; Expunge the whole, or lop th' excrescent parts Of all our vices have created arts.* The abuses of... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1812 - 348 pages
...: First strip off all her equipage of pride ; Deduct what is but vanity, or dress, 45 Or learning's luxury, or idleness ; Or tricks to shew the stretch...human brain, Mere curious pleasure, or ingenious pain ; Expunge the whole, or lop th' excrescent parts Of all our vices have created arts ; 50 Then see how... | |
 | Richard Warner - English literature - 1819 - 418 pages
...guide; First strip off all her equipage of pride ; Deduct but what is vanity or dress ; Or learning's luxury, or idleness ; Or tricks to shew the stretch...human brain, Mere curious pleasure, or ingenious pain ; Expunge the whole, or lop th' excrescent parts, Of all, our vices have created arts ; Then see how... | |
 | Alexander Pope - Human beings - 1820 - 80 pages
...guide; First strip off all her equippage of pride; Deduct what is but vanity or dress, Or learning's luxury, or idleness; Or tricks to shew the stretch...human brain, Mere curious pleasure, or ingenious pain; Expunge the whole, or lop the excrescent parts Of all our vices have created arts; Then see how little... | |
 | Alexander Pope - Human beings - 1821 - 254 pages
...guide ; First strip off all her equipage of pride ; Deduct what is but Vanity , or Dress, Or Learning's Luxury , or Idleness ; Or tricks to shew the stretch...brain , Mere curious pleasure , or ingenious pain ; Expunge the whole , or lop th' excrescent parts Of all our Vices have created Arts ; Then see how... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1821 - 86 pages
...; First strip off all her equipage ot pride ; Deduct what is but vanity, or dress, 45 Or learning's luxury, or idleness ; . Or tricks to shew the stretch...of human brain, Mere curious pleasure, or ingenious pai» : Expunge the whole, or lop th' excrescent parts Of all our vices have created arts : 50 Then... | |
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Trace Science then, with Modesty thy guide; First strip off all her equipage of Pride, Deduct what is but Vanity, or Dress, Or Learning's Luxury, or Idleness; Or tricks to shew the stretch of human brain, Mere curious pleasure, or ingenious pain; Expunge... 
