• ISBN13: 9781458810694
• Binding: Paperback
• Subject: English Literature
• Publisher: General Books
• Publisher Imprint: General Books
• Publication Date: January 1, 2021
• Pages: 56
• Original Price: USD 7.55
• Language: English
• Edition: N/A
• Item Weight: 96 grams
• BISAC Subject(s): N/A

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: (university) JJBRAPvy The value of Pope's Essay on Man, as a text-book for parsing, in our Schools and Academies, is sufficiently manifest from its universal use and the approbation of the best judges. It is, however, to be regretted, that in many instances, the meaning of the poet is altogether misapprehended, and an improper construction given to his language. With a view to the correction of this evil, the present edition, with explanatory notes, is prepared; and should it be found, in any degree, conducive to a more correct method of instruction, the object of the writer will be accomjMiuneu. Entered according to the Act of Conirretw, in the year lr4, by Mi Daniel Clarke, in Ihe Clerk's Office ol me District Court of Maine. ESSAY ON MAN. N. B. The abbreviations commonly made use of In Dictionaries are also tised in the notes to this work. Tlie wnrda in italic hare Bo me immediate relation to each other, or are the prlnciual subjects )f the note. EPISTLE 1. Awake, my St. John leave all meaner things To low ambition and the pride of kings. Let us (since life can little more supply Than just to look about us and to die) NOTES textit{Explanatory of the Grammatical construction, fyc EPISTLE I. Line 1. The subject of these epistles is Ethics, or Morals. The poet, after proposing his plan, begins by a reference to the narrow sphere of our knowledge, and the only foundation of all true reasoning; and proceeds to consider the habits, the propensities, and powers of man, his object of pursuit, his discoveries and improvements of every kind. They were addressed to Henry St. John, by the title of Lord Bolingbroke, the friend and patron of Pope, at that time. The peculiarity of the name might prevent the line from being understood by persons not acquainted...