 Fear made her devils, and weak hope her gods ; Gods partial, changeful, passionate, unjust, Whose attributes were rage, revenge, or lust ; Such as the souls of cowards might conceive, And, form'd like tyrants, tyrants would believe.  Translations in English verse from Ovid, Horace, Tacitus, etc., by W. Lee - Page 79by Publius Ovidius Naso, William Lee - 1860Full view - About this book
 | Alexander Pope, Thomas Park - 1808 - 328 pages
...fix'd the dreadful, there the bless'd abodes ., Fear made her devils, and weak hope her gods ; Oods partial, changeful, passionate, unjust, Whose attributes were rage, revenge, or lust : Such as the souk of cowards might conceive, And, form'd like tyrants, tyrants would believe. Zeal then, not charity,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1810 - 546 pages
...Saw gods descend, and fiends infernal rise : Here fix'd the dreadful, there the blest abodes; Fear made her devils, and weak Hope her gods; Gods partial,...changeful, passionate, unjust, Whose attributes were rag-?, revenge, or lust; Such as the rouls of cowards miiiht conceive, And, form'd like tyrants, tyrants... | |
 | John Dougall - 1810 - 734 pages
...and tears, prayers and broken hearts, are the offerings which are paid to them— Addison, ibid. " Gods partial, changeful, passionate, unjust ; Whose attributes were rage, revenge, or lust." — Pope. " What is sweeter than honey ? and what is stronger than a lion?" A circumstance of importance,... | |
 | William Warburton (Bp. of Gloucester), Richard Hurd - Theology - 1811 - 380 pages
...lustrations, and bloody sacrifices, composed the system of religious worship. Jn the words of the great Poet, Gods partial, changeful, passionate, unjust, Whose...Such as the souls of cowards might conceive, And, form'd like tyrants, tyrants would believe *. But, 3. The mode of public worship was alone sufficient... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1812 - 348 pages
...gods descend, and fiends infernal rise : Here fix'd the dreadful, there the blest abodes ; 255 Fear made her Devils, and weak hope her Gods ; Gods partial,...unjust, Whose attributes were rage, revenge, or lust ; 12 Such Such as the souls of cowards might conceive, And, form' J like tyrants, tyrants would believe.... | |
 | Elegant poems - 1814 - 132 pages
...gods descend, and fiends infernal rise : Here fix'd the dreadful, there the blest abodes ; 255 Fear made her devils, and weak hope her gods; Gods partial,...Such as the souls of cowards might conceive, And, form'd like tyrants, tyrants would believe. 260 Zeal then, not charity, became the guide, And hell... | |
 | Specimens - 1814 - 424 pages
...sense: and it was by a natural revulsion of the human mind, that from such gods as those of Paganism, Gods partial, changeful, passionate, unjust, Whose attributes were rage, revenge, or lust, Lucretius should have passed to the blank vacuity of a world independent of Deity. It was a clcr.rsighted... | |
 | Sir Charles Abraham Elton - English poetry - 1814 - 422 pages
...sense: and it was by a natural revulsion of the human mind, that from such gods as those of Paganism, Gods partial, changeful, passionate, unjust, Whose attributes were rage, revenge, or lust, Lucretius should have passed to the blank vacuity of a world independent of Deity. It was a clearsighted... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1849 - 638 pages
...her devils, and weak hope her gods l Gods iiartial, changeful, passionate, unjust, Whuse attrihntes were rage, revenge, or lust ; Such as the souls of cowards might conceive, And, form'd like tyrants, tyrants would helieve. 260 Zeal, then, nut charity, hecame the guide ; And hell... | |
 | John Aikin - English poetry - 1820 - 832 pages
...Saw gods descend, and fiends infernal rise : Here fix'd the dreadful, there the blest abodes; Fear Urania, by that name If rightly thou art call'd,...Olympian hill I soar, Above the flight of Pegasean tlu> souls of cowards might conceive, And, form'd like tyrants, tyrants would believe. Zeal, then,... | |
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