 | Lindley Murray - 1830 - 256 sivua
...Pride still is aiming at the blast adodes* ; Men would be angels', angels would be gods\ Aspirin); to be gods', if angels fell', Aspiring to be angels',...wishes to invert the laws Of ORDER', sins against th' ETERNAI. CAUSE\ — POPE. SECTION X. Selfishness reproved. HAS God', thou fool' 1 work'd solely for... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1830 - 244 sivua
...lies ; All quit their sphere, and rush into the skies. Pride still is aiming at the blest abodes J Men would be angels, angels would be gods. Aspiring to be gods, if angels fell, Aspiring to be angols, men rebel: And wliorbut wishes to invert the laws Of ORDER, sins against th' ETERNAL CAUSE.... | |
 | Jesse Torrey - 1830 - 336 sivua
...unjust. 14 In pride, in reas'ning pride, our error lies; All quit their sphere, and rush into the skies. And who but wishes to invert the laws Of order, sins against th' Eternal Cause. 15 Ask for what end the heavenly bodies shine, Earth for whose use ? Pride answers, "'Tis for mine:... | |
 | Alexander Hamilton - 1977 - 678 sivua
...error lies; All quit their sphere and rush into the skies! Pride still is aiming at the bless'd abodes, Men would be angels, angels would be gods. Aspiring...if angels fell, Aspiring to be angels men rebel." 4. George Cabot. To Oliver Wolcott, Junior l [New York, December, 1800] Your last letter,2 My Dear... | |
 | Steadman Upham - 1990 - 344 sivua
...UPHAM 1 Decoupling the processes of political evolution STEADMAN UPHAM New Mexico State University Men would be Angels, Angels would be Gods. Aspiring...Gods if Angels fell, Aspiring to be Angels men rebel. Alexander Pope, An Essay on Man How many angels can sit on the head of a pin? For archaeologists and... | |
 | Thomas P. Saine - 1997 - 388 sivua
...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. Aspiring...but wishes to invert the laws Of ORDER, sins against th'Eternal Cause.33 The first epistle of the Essay on Man culminates in the well-known proclamation,... | |
 | Nancy Dean - 2000 - 164 sivua
...pride of angels with the intent of stressing the dangers of perverting the "natural order" of things: Aspiring to be Gods, if Angels fell,/ Aspiring to be Angels, Men rebel. Pope furthers his argument by comparing Satan's fall from grace (when he rebelled against God) to man's... | |
 | John Adams - 2004 - 580 sivua
...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, Aspiring...if angels fell, Aspiring to be angels, men rebel. The modern improvers of society, — ameliorators of the condition of mankind, instructors of the human... | |
 | Giuseppe Antonio Camerino - 2006 - 280 sivua
...Tentar di farsi al Creatore eguale?». Cinque versi contro i lapidari due di Pope (I, vv. 129-130): «And who but wishes to invert the laws / Of order, sins against the Eternal Cause». Essi seguono di poco altri (vv. 118-122) non meno vibranti contro lo stupido orgoglio... | |
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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. Aspiring to be Gods, if Angels fell, Aspiring to be Angels, Men rebel: And who but wishes to invert... 
