 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. Aspiring to be Gods, if Angels fell, Aspiring to be Angels, Men rebel:...  Elegant poems. Pope's Essay on man, Blair's Grave, Gray's Elegy, Goldsmith's ... - Sivu 14tekijä(t) Elegant poems - 1814Koko teos - Tietoja tästä kirjasta
 | Alexander Pope - 1808 - 334 sivua
...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. In pride, in reasoning pride, our error lies; All quit their sphere, and rush into the skies. Pride still is aiming... | |
 | Alexander Pope, Thomas Park - 1808 - 328 sivua
...from his hand the halance and the rod, Rejudge hisjnstice, be the god of God. In pride, in reasoning pride, our 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 to be gods, if angels fell, Aspiring... | |
 | Samuel Shuckford - 1808 - 428 sivua
...as God, butobeying what God commanded; thereby to have learned and done the duties of his life, but, In reas'ning pride our error lies, All quit their sphere, and rush into the skies: Men would be angels, angels would be gods: Aspiring to be gods, if angels fell; Aspiring to be angels,... | |
 | William Enfield - 1808 - 434 sivua
...hts-justicg, be the God of God. In Pride, iw reas'ning Pride, our error lies r All quit their spltere, and rush into the skies. Pride still is aiming at the blest abodes, Men would be Angels, Angels would be Gods.' Aspifjag to be Gods, if Angels fell, . Aspiring to be Angels,... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1810 - 262 sivua
...Providence ; Call imperfection what thou fanciest such, Say here he gives too little, there too much. In pride, in reas'ning pride, our error lies ; All...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,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 546 sivua
...If man alone ingross not Heaven's high care, Alone made perfect here, immortal thefe : ISO Snatch'd from his hand the balance and the rod, Re-judge his justice, be the god of God. In Pride, in reasoning Pride, qur errourlies; All quit their sphere, and rush into the skies. Pride still is aiming... | |
 | David Savile - 1810 - 440 sivua
...the counsels of the Almighty, or of " finding him out " unto perfection ?" Shouldst thou dare to " Snatch from his hand, the balance and the rod, " Rejudge his justice ; be the God of God ?" How little of the scheme of Providence, now comes within mortal ken ! We can now only see a few... | |
 | William Warburton, Richard Hurd - 1811 - 454 sivua
...is , perfect , and hatfi immortality : To which sense the lines immediately following confine us : Snatch from his hand the balance and the rod, Rejudge his justice, be the God of God. From these men, the Poet turns to his Friend, and [from 1. 118 to 137.} remarks that the ground of... | |
 | William Warburton - 1811 - 444 sivua
...only is perfect, and hath immortality : To which sense the lines immediately following confine us : Snatch from his hand the balance and the rod, Rejudge his justice, be the God of God. From these men, the Poet turns to his Friend, and [from 1. 118 to 137.] remarks that the ground of... | |
 | Samuel Davies, Samuel Finley - 1811 - 550 sivua
...punishment he ought to inflict upon them ? Sinners ! dare you usurp this high province ? Dare you " Snatch from his hand the balance and the rod, " Rejudge his justice, be the god of God !"* Rather stand at the bar, ye criminals ! that is your place. Do not dare to ascend the throne ;... | |
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