| Robert Carruthers - 1857 - 554 sivua
...curiosa felicitas as well as Pope. The poet tells us, in a beautiful couplet, that man is " Placed on this isthmus of a middle state, A being darkly wise and rudely great." St. John moralises in a like strain : " This is the condition of humanity : we are placed, as it were,... | |
| Lucius Osgood - 1858 - 494 sivua
...her ^ruiipel-horn. 4. How dear | to this heart ^ are the scenes | pf my childhood ! 5. Placed | on an isthmus [[ of a middle | state, A being | darkly wise || and rudely | great. 6. Warms | in the sun, || refreshes | in the breeze, Glows | in the stars, || and blossoms | in the... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1859 - 504 sivua
...a9e of life. L KNOW then thyself, presume not God to scan, The proper study of mankind is Man. Placed stoie's pride, He hangs betwcen ; in doubt to aet, or rest ; In doubt to dcem himself a god, or beast... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1860 - 632 sivua
...&c. EPISTLE II. K.vow then thyself, presume not God to scan ' oper study of mankind is man. Placed on this isthmus of a middle state, A being darkly...side, With too much weakness for the Stoic's pride, lie hangs between ; in doubt to act, or rest ; In doubt to deem himself a god, or beast ; In doubt... | |
| George Augustus Sala, Edmund Yates - 1874 - 588 sivua
...settled : " Know then thyself; presume not God to scan; The proper study of mankind is man. Placed on this isthmus of a middle state, A being darkly...With too much knowledge for the sceptic side, With two much weakness for the Stoic's pride, He hangs between ; in doubt to act, or rest ; In doubt to... | |
| Henry Southgate - 1862 - 774 sivua
...Proper Study of. Know then thyself, presume not God to scan ; The proper study of mankind is man. Placed on this isthmus of a middle state, A being darkly...much knowledge for the sceptic side, With too much greatness for the stoic's pride ; He hangs between, in doubt to act or rest ; In doubt to deem himself... | |
| John Antrobus (essayist.) - 1862 - 150 sivua
...The proper study of Mankind is Man ; Placed on this isthmus of a middle state, A being darkly ivue and rudely great, With too much knowledge for the...side, With too much weakness for the Stoic's pride, He stands aloof — in doubt to act or rest, In doubt to deem himself a God or beast, Doubting his mind... | |
| Hippolyte Taine - 1863 - 712 sivua
...state , A being darkly wise, and rudely great : With too much knowledge for the sceptic side, Wich too much weakness for the stoic's pride , He hangs...doubt to deem himself a God or beast, In doubt his mind'or body to prefer; Born but to die, and reas' ning but to err; Alike in ignorance, his reason... | |
| Hippolyte Taine - 1863 - 696 sivua
...veut les compter : Know thén thyself, presume not God to scan. Thé proper study of mankind is man. Plac'd on this isthmus of a middle state , A being...great : With too much knowledge for the sceptic side, Wich too much weakness for the stoic's pride , He hangs between ; in doubt to act or rest ; In doubt... | |
| Mark Hopkins - 1863 - 372 sivua
...and passion, conscience and desire, often. seem to be, and are, opposing forces, and man is left " In doubt to act or rest, ......•.•. In doubt to deem himself a god or beast, In doubt his soul or body to prefer." . * •* " The intestine war of reason against the passions," says Pascal,... | |
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