Let subtle schoolmen teach these friends to fight, More studious to divide than to unite, And grace and virtue, sense and reason split, With all the rash dexterity of wit: Wits, just like fools, at war about a name, Have full as oft no meaning, or the... Essay on man, and The universal prayer - Página 14por Alexander Pope - 1860 - 47 páginasVista completa - Acerca de este libro
| Edward J. Hallock - 1854 - 260 páginas
...This, these and latter refer to the latter of two nouns ; that, those and former to the ifcrmer ; as, " Self-love and reason to one end aspire, Pain their aversion, pleasure their desire ; But greedy that (ie self-love) its object would devour, This (ie reason) taste the honey and not wound the flower."... | |
| Geoffrey Chaucer - 1856 - 134 páginas
...habit and experience gains ; Each strengthens reason, and self-love restrains. Let subtle schoolmen teach these friends to fight, More studious to divide...reason split, With all the rash dexterity of wit. "VVits, just like fools, at war about a name, Have full as oft no meaning1, or the same. Self-love... | |
| 1857 - 588 páginas
...correct, and that we do not come under the lash of Pope, by the accusation that by us words are — " Split With all the rash dexterity of wit. Wits, just...a name, Have full as oft no meaning, or the same." Not so in this case, at least. We quarrel not for words, but for an important truth. Only in one view... | |
| Isaiah J. Morris - 1858 - 228 páginas
...write. 22. A great number of women was present. 23. We conversed about it a great deal 34. "flelf-love and reason to one end aspire, Pain their aversion, pleasure their desire ; Hut greedy Unit [self love] its object would devour, 1'his [reason] taste the houcy and not wound... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1859 - 504 páginas
...habit and experience gains ; Each strengthens reason, and self-love restrains. Let subtle schoolmen teach these friends to fight, More studious to divide than to unite ; And grace and virtue, sense anil reason split, With all the rash dexterity of wit. Wits, just like fools, at war about a name,... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1860 - 632 páginas
...tu unite; And grace and virtue, sense pnd reason splr., With all the rash dexterity of wit. \\iis, just like fools, at war about a name, Have full as...aspire, Pain their aversion, pleasure their desire; Bui preedy that, its object would devour, This taste the honey, and not wound the flower : M Pleasure,... | |
| 1870 - 350 páginas
...scholasticism, it would hardly be unjust to apply to the scholastic authors in general the words of Pope — " Wits, just like fools, at war about a name. Have full as oft no meaning or the same." And this principally from ambiguities of language and difficulties of expression — ambiguities, I... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1867 - 520 páginas
...habit and experience gains ; Each strengthens reason, and self-love restrains. Let subtle schoolmen teach these friends to fight, More studious to divide...just like fools, at war about a name, Have full as oftvno meaning, or the same. Self-love and reason to one end aspire, Pain their aversion, pleasure... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1867 - 80 páginas
...and reason split With all the rash dexterity of wit. Wits, just like fools, at war about a name, 85 Have full as oft no meaning, or the same. Self-love...desire ; But greedy that, its object would devour, Tliis taste the honey, and not wound the flower: Pleasure, or wrong or rightly understood, 91 Oar greatest... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1869 - 168 páginas
...habit and experience gains; Each strengthens reason, and self-love restrains. 80 Let subtle schoolmen teach these friends to fight, More studious to divide...full as oft no meaning, or the same. Self-love and reason'.to one end aspire, Pain their aversion, pleasure their desire; But greedy that, its object... | |
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