| Louis Malesherbes Goldsborough - 1845 - 36 sivua
...As much eternal springs and cloudless skies, As men forever temperate, calm, and wise. If plagues or earthquakes break not Heaven's design, Why then a Borgia, or a Catiline ; Who knows, but he whose hand the lightning forms, Who heaves old Ocean, and who wings the storms... | |
| 1847 - 776 sivua
...anticipates. That " Glory to God in the highest" will accrue from it in some way, we have no doubt. ' " If plagues and earthquakes break not Heaven's design, Why then a Borgia or a Catiline 1" At the feeble malice of those who thus take counsel against the Lord and against his Anointed, he... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1847 - 524 sivua
...with each other, and with his own avowed opinion ;" as a proof of which, he instances the lines, " If plagues and earthquakes break not heaven's design, Why then a Borgia or a Catiline?" Essay on Man, Ep. i. ver. 155. " This," says he, " approaches very nearly to the optimism of Leibnitz,... | |
| 1847 - 782 sivua
...anticipates. That " Glory to God in the highest" will accrue from it in some way, we have no doubt. " If plagues and earthquakes break not Heaven's design, Why then a Borgia or a Catiline V At the feeble malice of those who thus take counsel against the Lord and against his Anointed, he... | |
| Elizabeth Fries Ellet - 1848 - 362 sivua
...think of Napoleon ? If you had asked Mrs. Adams, she would have -replied to you in the words of Pope, ' If plagues and earthquakes break not heaven's design, Why then a Borgia or a Napoline ?' "* * Manuscript letter. Her health was much impaired ; and from this time she remained... | |
| English poetry - 1848 - 468 sivua
...much eternal springs and cloudless skies, As men for ever temperate, calm, and wise, If plagues or earthquakes break not Heaven's design, Why, then, a Borgia or a Catiline ? Who knows, but he whose hand the lightning forms, Who heaves old Ocean, and who wings the storms... | |
| Alexander Pope, William Charles Macready - 1849 - 646 sivua
...much eternal springs and cloudless skies, As Man for ever temperate, calm, and wise. If plagues or earthquakes break not Heaven's design, Why then a Borgia, or a Catiline ? Who knows but He, whose hand the lightning forms, Who heaves old ocean, and who wings the storms... | |
| William Henry Channing - 1850 - 706 sivua
...it in any way ? Is not He more properly the Reformer ? Is it not perfectly plain, that, "If storms and earthquakes break not Heaven's design, Why then a Borgia, or a Cataline ? Who knows, but He whose hand the lightning forme, Who heaves old ocean, and who wings the... | |
| William Chauncey Fowler - 1851 - 1502 sivua
...name ; or an office, or profession, or science instead of the true name of a person. 1. If plagues or d autumn ot ? — Poi'K. 2. Galileo, the Columbia of the heavens. 3. The Niobe of nations, there she stands, Childless... | |
| James Bryce - 1852 - 630 sivua
...after such sort that, in one of his essays, Mr. Hume writes. Founding on this couplet of Pope — " If plagues and earthquakes break not heaven's design, Why then a Borgia or a Cataline?" he makes his SCEPTIC to reply: "then my own vices will be a part of the same order." This... | |
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