Man, but for that, no action could attend, And, but for this, were active to no end: Fix'd like a plant on his peculiar spot, To draw nutrition, propagate, and rot: Or, meteor-like, flame lawless through the void, Destroying others, by himself destroy'd. Essay on man, and The universal prayer - Página 13por Alexander Pope - 1860 - 47 páginasVista completa - Acerca de este libro
| 1822 - 284 páginas
...proper operation still Ascribe all good, to their improper—ill. Self-love, the spring of motion, acts the soul; Reason's comparing balance rules the whole....lawless through the void, Destroying others, by himself destroy'd. Most strength the moving principle requires; Active its task, it prompts, impels, inspires.... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1822 - 372 páginas
...I11. Self-love, the spring of motion, acts the soul ; s Reason's comparing balance rules the whole. 60 Man, but for that, no action could attend, And, but...; Or, meteor-like, flame lawless through the void, 65 Destroying others, by himself destroy'd. Most strength the moving principle requires : c,,; j .-,/.... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1822 - 370 páginas
...111. Self-love, the spring of motion, acts the soul ; Reason's comparing balance rules the whole. 60 Man, but for that, no action could attend, And, but...; Or, meteor-like, flame lawless through the void, 65 Destroying others, by himself destroy 'd. Most strength the moving principle requires : Active its... | |
| William Banks - 1823 - 462 páginas
...passions. What Pope says of self-love, is. true of them all. " Self-love, the spring of motion, acts the soul, Reason's comparing balance rules the whole...attend, And but for this, were active to no end." Those states of mind, which we term the passions, are constantly stimulating us to act; and when we... | |
| Jesse Torrey - 1824 - 308 páginas
...operation still, Ascribe all good; to their improper, ill. 4 Self-love, the spring of motion, acts the soul; Reason's comparing balance rules the whole....lawless through the void, Destroying others, by himself destroy'd. 5 Most strength the moving principle requires; Active its task, it prompts, impels, inspires,... | |
| William Hazlitt - 1824 - 1062 páginas
...proper operation still, Ascribe all good, to their improper ill. Self-love, the spring of motion, acts o costly lord the sumptuous banquet deal, To make him loathe his vegetable destroy'd. Most strength the moving principle requires; Active its task, it prompts, impels, inspires.... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1824 - 80 páginas
...ill. Self-love, the spring of motion, acts the soul ; Reason's comparing balance rules the whole. 60 Man, but for that, no action could attend, And, but...lawless through the void, Destroying others, by himself destroy'd. » Most strength the moving principle requires ; Active its task, it prompts, impels, inspires.... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1824 - 430 páginas
...111. Self-love, the spring of motion, acts the soul ; Reason's comparing balance rules the whole. 60 Man, but for that, no action could attend, And, but...peculiar spot, To draw nutrition, propagate, and rot ; COMMENTARY. Ver. 53. Two Principles, #c.] The Poet having shewn the difficulty which attends the... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1824 - 422 páginas
...111. Self-love, the spring of motion, acts the soul ; Reason's comparing balance rules the whole. 60 Man, but for that, no action could attend, And, but...peculiar spot, To draw nutrition, propagate, and rot ; COMMENTARY. Ver. 53. Two Principles, fyc.] The Poet having shewn the difficulty which attends the... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1824 - 84 páginas
...Reason's comparing balance rules the whole. 30 Man. out for that, no action could attend, And, out tor this, were active to no end ; Fix'd like a plant on...; Or. meteor-like, flame lawless through the void, 65 Destroying oilier^, tv himself destroy'd. Most strength tne moving prmciple requires ; Active its... | |
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