| Alexander Pope - Human beings - 1736 - 64 pages
...A1! this dread ORDER break---For whom ? For thee ! Vile Worm !— O Madnefs ! Pride ! Impiety ! 250 What if the Foot, ordain'd the Duft to tread, Or Hand to toil, afpir'd to be the Head ? What if the Head, the Eye, or Ear, repin'd To ferve mere Engines to the ruling Mind ? Juft as abfurd,... | |
| Jean-Pierre de Crousaz - 1739 - 248 pages
...fly, Planets and Suns ru/h lawlefs through the Sfy. Let ruling Angels from their Spheres be hurl'd, Being on Being wreck'd, and World on World, Heav'n's whole Foundations to their Centre nod, And Nature tremble, to the Throne of God. the Poet fuffers himfelf to be carried away by his Fire,... | |
| Alexander Pope - English literature - 1751 - 274 pages
...orbit fly, Planets and Suns run lawlefs thro' the fky ; Let ruling Angels from their fpheres be hurl'd, Being on Being wreck'd, and world on world ; Heav'n's...to tread, Or hand, to toil, afpir'd to be the head ? 260 , NOTE s. verb alludes to the motion of the planetary bodies of each fyftem j and to the figures... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1751 - 272 pages
...orbit fly, Planets and Suns run lawlefs thro' the fky ; Let ruling Angels from their fpheres be hurl'd, Being on Being wreck'd, and world on world ; Heav'n's...to tread, Or hand, to toil, afpir'd to be the head ? 260 NOTEs. verb alludes to the motion of the planetary bodies of each fyftem ; and to the figures... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1751 - 374 pages
...orbit fly, Planets and Suns run lawlefs thro' the iky ; Let ruling Angels from their fpheres be hurl'd, Being on Being wreck'd, and world on world ; Heav'n's whole foundations to their centre nod,255 And Nature trembles to the throne of God. All this dread ORDER break — for whom ? for thee... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1752 - 378 pages
...Let ruling Angels from their fpheres be hurl'd, Being on Being wreck'd, and world on world j Heav'ns whole foundations to their centre nod, 255 And Nature...throne of God. All this dread ORDER break — for whom f for thee ? Vile worm ! — oh Madnefs ! Pride ! Impiety ! IX. What if the foot, ordain'd the duft... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1754 - 238 pages
...The poet, throughout VARIATIONS. VER. 238. Ed. ift. Ethereal eflence, fpirit, fubftance, man. Heav'ns whole foundations to their centre nod, 255 And Nature...trembles to the throne of God. All this dread ORDER break—for whom ? for thee ? Vile worm !—oh Madnefs! Pride! Impiety ! IX. What if the foot, ordain'd... | |
| Alexander Pope - English literature - 1757 - 234 pages
...icafoning. VARIATIONS. VER. 238. Ed. ift. Ethereal efihnce, f;,irit, fubftance, man. ET. I. ESSAY ON MAN. 15 Heav'n's whole foundations to their centre nod, 255...to tread, Or hand, to toil, afpir'd to be the head ? 260 What if the head, the eye, or ear repin'd To fcrve mere engines to the ruling Mind ? Juft as... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1762 - 370 pages
...wreck'd , and world on world ; Heav'ns whole foundations to their centre nod , 255 And Nature tremble to the throne of God. All this dread ORDER break —...to tread, Or hand, to toil, afpir'd to be the head? 26» Juft as abfurd, to mourn the tasks or pains, 26$ The great directing MIND of all ordains. All... | |
| Art - 1762 - 290 pages
...beautifully reprefents the extravagance, madnefs, and pride, of man's defuing to be other than what he is. What if the foot, ordain'd the duft to tread, Or hand to toil, afpir'd to be the head ? What if the head, the eye, or ear repin'd To ferve mere engines to the ruling mind ? Juft as abfurd... | |
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