 | Alexander Pope - 1832 - 86 sivua
...lies ; All quit their sphere, and rush into the skies. Pride still is aiming at the blest abodes, 125 Men would be angels, angels would be gods. Aspiring...but wishes to invert the laws Of order, sins against th' Eternal Cause. 130 V. Ask for what end the heavenly bodies shine, Earth for whose use ? Pride answers,... | |
 | Noah Webster - 1833 - 202 sivua
...err'd before ?" In the middle of the second foot, the pause may be used, but produces little melody. " And who but wishes to invert the laws Of order, sins against the eternal cause." Harmony is produced by a proportion between the members of the same verse, or between the members of... | |
 | 1833 - 776 sivua
...irreversible decree of nature, to which providence placed its seal on the day that America was discovered — And who but wishes to invert the laws Of order, sins against th' Eternal cause.] BRINE, — A CURE FOR CANINE DISTEMPER. MR. EDITOR: Having observed that one of... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1835 - 350 sivua
...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 at the bless'd abodes ; 125 Men would be angels, angels would be gods. Aspiring to be gods, if angels fell,... | |
 | Arthur O. Lovejoy - 1936 - 404 sivua
...Universal Cause," to disturb the very system of the universe. In pride, in reas'ning pride, our error lies; All quit their sphere and rush into the skies....abodes, Men would be angels, angels would be gods. Man should, accordingly, eschew all the vaster enterprises of the mind; he was not meant and is not... | |
 | Alexander Hamilton - 1977 - 678 sivua
...1733-34), Epistle I, lines 123-29. The entire quotation reads: "In pride, in reas'ning 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... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1977 - 772 sivua
...recalling a reproach from one of his favourite poets: 'In Pride, in reas'ning Pride, our error l1es; / All quit their Sphere, and rush into the skies. / Pride still is aiming at the blest abodes, . . .' Pope, An Essay on Man, ed. Maynard Mack (1950), I 123-8. 2, 7 widens } broadens ] slackens 5... | |
 | Maurizio Viroli - 1988 - 208 sivua
...contentée d'établir l'ordre; elle a pris des mesures certaines pour que rien ne pût le troubler".11 Pride still is aiming at the blest abodes, men would be angels, angels would be gods.1 56 Désordre et inégalité »i. plusieurs fois que il vaut mieux dans certains cas que les... | |
 | 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... | |
 | Edith P. Hazen - 1992 - 1172 sivua
...breast: Man never Is, but always To be blest: (Fr. Epistle I) 66 In Pride, in reas'ning Pride, our error lind, That, deaf and silent, read's! the eternal deep,...mind, — (1. 108 — 113) 78 Thou little Child, yet (Fr. Epistle I) 67 From pride, from pride, our very reas'ning springs; Account for moral, as for nat'ral... | |
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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... 
