 | Alexander Pope, Thomas Park - 1808 - 328 pages
...comprehend the heav'n? Or touch, if tremblingly alive all o'er, To smart and agonize at every pore ? Or quick effluvia darting through the brain, Die of a rose in aromatic pain ? If nature thunder'd in his opening ears, And siuifd him with the music of the spheres, How would... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - English literature - 1832 - 644 pages
...comprehend the heaven ? Or touch, if tremblingly (dive nil o'er, . To smart nntl agonize at every pore ? Or quick effluvia darting through the brain, Die of a rose in aromatic pain ? If nature Ihumler'd in Ms opening ears, And stunn'd him with the music of the spheres ; How would... | |
 | William Mudford - 1812 - 348 pages
...comprehend the heav'n? Or touch, if tremblingly alive all o'er, To smart and agonize at every pore ? Or quick effluvia darting through the brain, Die of a rose in aromatic pain ; If nature thunder'd in his op'ning ears, And stunn'd him with the music of the spheres, How would... | |
 | William Mudford - Dramatists, English - 1812 - 666 pages
...comprehend the heav'n ? Or touch, if tremblingly alive all o'er, To smart and agonize at every pore ? Or quick effluvia darting through the brain, Die of a rose in aromatic pain ; If nature thunder'd in his op'ning ears, And stunn'd him with the music of the spheres, How would... | |
 | Alexander Pope - Human beings - 1820 - 80 pages
...comprehend the heavenOr touch, if tremblingly alive all o'er, To smart and agonize at ev'ry pore? Or quick effluvia darting through the brain, Die of a rose in aromatic pain? If nature thuader'd in his opening ears, And stunn'd him with the music of the spherei. Hew woHld he... | |
 | John Aikin - English poetry - 1821 - 402 pages
...comprehend the Heaven ? Or touch, if tremblingly alive all o'er, To smart and agonize at every pore ? Or quick effluvia darting through the brain, Die of a rose in aromatic pain ? If Nature thunder'd in his opening ears, And stunn'd him with the music of the spheres, How would... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1821 - 86 pages
...microscopic eye ? For this plain reason, man is not a fly. Say what the use, were finer optics given, 195 Or quick effluvia darting through the brain, Die of a rose, in aromatic pain ? 200 If Nature thunder'd in his opening ears, And stunn'd him with the music of the spheres, How would... | |
 | Classical poetry - 1822 - 284 pages
...comprehend the Heaven? Or touch, if tremblingly alive all o'er, To smart and agonize at every pore ? Or quick effluvia darting through the brain, Die of a rose in aromatic pain ? If Nature thunder'd in his opening ears, And stunn'd him with the music of the spheres, How would... | |
 | Thomas Brown - Philosophy - 1822 - 594 pages
...tbe heaven • Or touch, if tremblingly alive all o'er, To smart and agonize at every pore, — Or, quick effluvia darting through the brain, Die of a rose in aromatic pain ? If Nature thnnder'd in his opening ears, And stunn'd him with the music of the spheres, How would... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1822 - 370 pages
...comprehend the heav'n ? Or touch, if tremblingly alive all o'er, To smart and agonize at ev'ry pore ? Or quick effluvia darting through the brain, Die of a rose in aromatic pain ? 200 If Nature thunder'd in his op'ning ears, And stunn'd him with the music of the spheres, NOTES.... | |
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... share, But what his nature and his state can bear. Why has not man a microscopic eye? For this plain reason, man is not a fly. 
