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
| George Frederick Graham - 1852 - 570 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 for this, were active to no end. Fixed like a plant on his peculiar spot, To draw nutrition, propagate, and rot ; Or, meteor-like, flame... | |
| Ezra Champion Seaman - 1852 - 688 páginas
...the spring of action moves the soul, Reason's comparing balance rules the whole. Man. but for thai, no action could attend, And, but for this, were active to no end. All these capacities and propensities of his nature are given him to be employed, exercised, and gratified,... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1853 - 336 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...: Or, meteor-like, flame lawless through the void, fc'fi Destroying others,, by himself destroy'd. Most strength the moving principle requires; Active... | |
| Entries - 1853 - 320 páginas
...made ? Is all that was intended by his intellectual and moral attributes accomplished, when he is ' Fix'd like a plant on his peculiar spot, To draw nutrition, propagate, and rot ? ' If so, to what purpose are these powers ? Is there not waste on the part of the Giver, and burdensome... | |
| House of Refuge (Philadelphia, Pa.) - 1855 - 176 páginas
...perseverance, and an unfaltering faith in their power, in order to produce the desired effect. SECTION I. Reason's comparing balance rules the whole, Man, but...draw nutrition, propagate, and rot; Or, meteor-like, name lawless through the void, Destroying others, by himself destroy'd. — POPE. Ignorance is a cause... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1856 - 352 páginas
...ill. Self-love, the spring of motion, acts the soul ; Reason's comparing balance rules the whole. eo Man, but for that, no action could attend, And, but...lawless through the void, Destroying others, by himself dcstroy'd. Most strength the moving principle requires ; Active its task, it prompts, impels, inspires.... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1963 - 884 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...propagate, and rot; Or, meteor-like, flame lawless thro' the void, 65 Destroying others, by himself destroy'd. Most strength the moving principle requires;... | |
| Robert Andrews - 1989 - 414 páginas
...British Conservative politician See CLASS; Schelling on EDUCATION; Woolf on SELF-CONFIDENCE Inertia Fixed like a plant on his peculiar spot, To draw nutrition, propagate, and rot. Alexander Pope (1688-1744) English poet When a man hasn'ta good reason for doing a thing, he has a... | |
| Michael Albert, Robin Hahnel - 1991 - 172 páginas
...numerals, figurines and souvenirs and kickshaws and mementos and gewgaws and bric-a-brac, everything Fixed like a plant on his peculiar spot. To draw nutrition, propagate, and rot. — Alexander Pope An Essay on Man A touch of dishonesty is part of the very existence of private merchandising.... | |
| William Wells Brown, Hannah Webster Foster - 1996 - 362 páginas
...self-love appears to predominate over the reason Pope speaks of: "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. I Fix'd like a Plant on his peculiar Spot, / To draw nutrition, propagate, and rot; / Or Meteor-like... | |
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