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
| Charles M. Ingersoll - 1825 - 298 páginas
...proper operation still, Ascribe all Good, to their improper, 111. Self-love, the spring of motion, acts the soul ; Reason's comparing balance rules the whole....propagate, and rot : Or, meteor-like, flame lawless thro' the void. Destroying others, by himself destroy'd. Most strength the moving principle requires... | |
| British anthology - 1825 - 460 páginas
...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....but for this, were active to no end : Fix'd, like a plaut, on his peculiar spot, To draw nutrition, propagate, and rot; Or, meteor-like, flame lawless... | |
| William Hazlitt - 1825 - 600 páginas
...aetion eould attend, And, but for this, were aetive to no end : Fix'd like a plant on his peeuliar Lady Club will take it ill, If he should fail destroy'd. Most strength the moving prineiple requires ; Aetive its task, it prompts, impels, inspires.... | |
| John Aikin - 1826 - 840 páginas
...operations still, Ascribe all good, to their improper, ill. Self-love, the spring of motion, ;ut , the soul ; Reason's comparing balance rules the whole...for that, no action could attend, And but for this, wore active to no end : Fix'd like a plant on his peculiar spot ; To draw nutrition, propagate, and... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1828 - 264 páginas
...ill. Self-love, the spring of motion, acts the soul ; Reason's comparing balance rules the whole, 6.0 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,jjimpcls inspires.... | |
| Thomas Curtis - 1829 - 824 páginas
...great animal, and to have nurtured up her young offspring with a conscious tenderness. Bentlri . Fixed like a plant on his peculiar spot, To draw nutrition, propagate and rot. Faff. Does not the body thrive and grow, By food of twenty years ago? And is not virtue in mankind,... | |
| Jesse Torrey - 1830 - 336 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,... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1830 - 500 páginas
...ill. Self-love, Uie spring of motion, acts the soul ; Reason's comparing balance rules the whole. 60 what the gods require : those gods revere, The poor...that ye are ! (the savage thus replies, His inward destroy'd. Most etrengih the moving principle requires; Active its task, it prompts, impels, inspires.... | |
| David Booth - 1831 - 408 páginas
...phrase, last spoken, and that to what was first mentioned Thus, " Self-love, the spring of motion, acts the soul; Reason's comparing balance rules the whole:...but for that, no action could attend, And, but for MM, were active to no end." ***** " Some place the bliss in action, some in ease ; Those call it pleasure,... | |
| Samuel B. EMMONS - 1832 - 168 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....attend, And, but for this, were active to no end: ^.Fix'cLJike a plant on his peculiar spot, To draw nutrition, propagate and rot: Or, meteor-like, flame... | |
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