 | John Adams, Charles Francis Adams - 1851 - 566 Seiten
...equally divided among mankind, any more than property, real or personal, any more than wives or women. In pride, in reasoning pride, our error lies, All...rush into the skies ; Pride still is aiming at the blest abodes, Men would be angels, angels would be gods, Aspiring to be gods, if angels full, Aspiring... | |
 | 1851 - 854 Seiten
...enlightened in their fashion to walk the beaten path of experience ; for truly said the poet — ' In pride, in reasoning pride, our error lies, All...rush into the skies. Pride still is aiming at the blest abodes ; Men would be angels, angels would be gods.' Lastly, the people — that is, the people... | |
 | 1851 - 496 Seiten
...God's unjust ; If man alone engross not heaven's high care, Alone made perfect here, immortal there : Snatch from his hand the balance and the rod, Rejudge his justice, be the God of God. UNIVERSAL BENEFICENCE OF PROVIDENCE. HAS God, tliou fool, work'd solely for thy good, Thy joy, thy... | |
 | John Coleman (of Dover.) - 1851 - 892 Seiten
...Call imperfection what thou fanciest such — Say, here He gives too little, there too much ; Strike from His hand the balance and the rod — Rejudge His justice — be the God of God. SIR JOHN DENHAM. THE early life of this eminent poet is involved in great obscurity. He was born at... | |
 | Moses Margoliouth - 1851 - 316 Seiten
...yourselves to draw the limits of the line the Almighty intended to mark out ? It would be indeed to ' Strike from his hand the balance and the rod, Re-judge his justice — be the God of God.' "I trust that no such presumption will fall to our lot — that we shall do that which we think our... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1963 - 884 Seiten
...unjust ; If Man alone ingross not Heav'n's high care, Alone made perfect here, immortal there: 120 Snatch from his hand the balance and the rod, Re-judge his justice, be the GOD of GOD ! In Pride, in reas'ning Pride, our error lies; All quit their sphere, and rush into the skies. Pride still is aiming... | |
 | Arthur O. Lovejoy - 1936 - 404 Seiten
...counterwork the Universal Cause," to disturb the very system of the universe. In pride, in reas'ning pride, our error lies; All quit their sphere and rush into the skies. Pride still is aiming at the blest abodes, Men would be angels, angels would be gods. Man should, accordingly, eschew all the vaster... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1977 - 772 Seiten
...recalling a reproach from one of his favourite poets: 'In Pride, in reas'ning Pride, our error l1es; / All quit their Sphere, and rush into the skies. / Pride still is aiming at the blest abodes, . . .' Pope, An Essay on Man, ed. Maynard Mack (1950), I 123-8. 2, 7 widens } broadens... | |
 | Edith P. Hazen - 1992 - 1172 Seiten
...in the human breast: Man never Is, but always To be blest: (Fr. Epistle I) 66 In Pride, in reas'ning u Eye among the blind, That, deaf and silent, read's! the eternal deep, Haunted for ever by the ete blest abodes, Men would be Angels, Angels would be Gods. (Fr. Epistle I) 67 From pride, from pride,... | |
 | Ed Jewinski, Andrew Stubbs - 1992 - 180 Seiten
...God's unjust; 1f Man alone ingross not Heav'n's high care, Alone made perfect here, immonal there: Snatch from his hand the balance and the rod, Re-judge his justice, be the God of God! (Pope, "An Essay on Man", Epistle 1, 113-122) "Capisco! 1 know my fate. Now for the firsi time 1 feel... | |
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In pride, in reasoning pride, our error lies; All quit their sphere, and rush into the skies. Pride still is aiming at the blest abodes, Men would be angels, angels would be gods. 
