...to gain, Which heavier Reason labors at in vain. ^hU too serves always, Reason.neicr long ; One must nimble bound Eager he presses on, but overshoots his ground; She tu jxiw'rs One in their nature, which are two iit ours ; And Reason raise o'er Instinct as you can, In....

...still in haste, One moment gives the pleasure and distaste.' And Reason raise o'er Instinct as yon can, .In this 'tis God directs, in that 'tis man. Who taught the nations of the field and wood Toshun.their poison, aud to choose their food? 100 Prescient, the tides or tempests to withstand, Build...

...at in vain. This too serves always, Reason never long : One must go right, the other may go wrong1. See then the acting and comparing powers One in their nature, which are two in ours tj VARIATIONS. After ver. 46, in the former editions, [him '. What care to tend, to lodge, to cram,...

...serves when prest ; Stays till we call, and then not often near ; But honest instinct comes a volunteer. And reason raise o'er instinct as you can, In this 'tis God directs, in that 'tis Man. The Commentator (who I will, in charity, suppose saw nothing of this fine and sober reasoning, nor...

...serves when prest ; Stays till we call, and then not often near ; But honest instinct comes a volunteer. And reason raise o'er instinct as you can, In this 'tis God directs, in that 'tis Man, The Commentator (who I will, in charity, suppose saw nothing of this fine and sober reasoning, nor...

...pathless air without chart er compass." — Pope has scuae beautiful lines on this subject ." — " Who taught the nations of the field and wood To shun their poison and to chorac their food '• Prescient, the tides or tempests to withstand, Build on the wave,, or arch beneath...

...under the mask of ridicule, fortius et melius than in professed serious and critical discourses." t " And Reason raise o'er Instinct as you can, In this 'tis God directs, in that 'tis Man." On the above couplet in the " Essay on Man," Dr. Warton observes, " Charron, of whom Pope and Bolingbroke...

...gain, Which heavier reason labours at in vain. This too serves always, reason never long ; One must go right, the other may go wrong. See then the acting and comparing pow'ss 95 One in their nature, which are two in ours ; And reason raise o'er instinct as you can, In...

...common sense of mankind. It is in this enlarged meaning that it is opposed to instinct by Pope : " And Reason raise o'er Instinct as you can ; " In this 'tis God directs, in that 'tis Man." It was thus, too, that Milton plainly understood the term, when he remarked, that smiles imply the...

...gain, Which heavier reason labours at iu vain. This too serves always, reason never long ; One must go right, the other may go wrong. See then the acting and comparing pow'rs, 95 One in their nature, which are two in ours ; And reason raise o'er instinct as you can,...