 | Edward Newenham Hoare - 1863 - 272 sivua
...latter words, and we find them frequently made to rhyme with " great." The poet describes man as " Plac'd on this isthmus of a middle state, A being darkly wise, and rudely great." And he points out the true nobility of race, — " But by your fathers' Worth if your's yon rate, Count... | |
 | Hippolyte Taine - 1866 - 500 sivua
...veut les compter : Know then thyself, presume not God to scan. The proper study of mankind is man. Plac'd on this isthmus of a middle state, A being...doubt to act or rest ; In doubt to deem himself a God er beast, In doubt his mind or body to prefer ; Born butto die, and reas'ning but to err; Alike in... | |
 | Rev. Henry Greene - 1866 - 558 sivua
...darkly wise and rudely great, With too much knowledge for the sceptic's side, With too much greatness for the stoic's pride, He hangs between in doubt to...or rest, In doubt to deem himself a god or beast. AT a period in comparison with whose vast antiquity the dust of Egyptian monuments is but of yesterday,... | |
 | Rev. Henry Greene - 1866 - 496 sivua
...worth considering. Whence this tendency or this education 1 ANOTHER STORY OF THE DARKNESS.* Placed on this isthmus of a middle state, A being darkly...and rudely great, With too much knowledge for the sceptic's side, With too much greatness for the stoic's pride, He hangs between in doubt to act or... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1867 - 626 sivua
...EPISTLE II. r. 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...rest ; In doubt to deem himself a god or beast ; In uoubt his mind or body to prefer ; Born but to die, and reasoning but to err ; 10 Alike in ignorance,... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1867 - 520 sivua
...of life. I. 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...or rest ; In doubt to deem himself a god, or beast ; [n doubt his mind or body to prefer ; Born but to die, and reasoning but to err; Alike in ignorance,... | |
 | Henry George Bohn - 1867 - 752 sivua
...Somerinlle, Field Sports. Know then thyself, presume not God to scan, The proper study of mankind is man. Plac'd on this isthmus of a middle state, A being...for the sceptic side. With too much weakness for the stoic s pride, He hangs between ; in doubt to act, or rest ; In doubt to deem himself a god or beast... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1867 - 72 sivua
...of life. I. 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...and rudely great; With too much knowledge for the skeptic side, With too much weakness for the Stoie's pride, He hangs between; in doubt to act or rest;... | |
 | Elizabeth Missing Sewell - 1867 - 386 sivua
...les compter. Know then thyself, presume not God to seau. . The proper study of mankind is man. Placed on this isthmus of a middle state, A being darkly wise, and rndely great : With too much knowledge for the Sceptie side, With too much weaknees for the Stoic's... | |
 | Robert J. Fogelin - 1992 - 270 sivua
...skepticism, for it reflects the same sentiment as the following lines from his "An Essay on Man": Placed on this isthmus of a middle state, A being darkly...side, With too much weakness for the Stoic's pride. . . . A similar sentiment is expressed in Paradise Lost, where Milton has Raphael warn Adam not to... | |
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Placed on this isthmus of a middle state, A being darkly wise, and rudely great ; With too much knowledge for the sceptic side, With too much weakness for the stoic's pride, He hangs between ; in doubt to act or rest ; In doubt to deem himself a god,... 
