 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
 | William Hazlitt - 1836 - 372 pages
...— and Pope long after summed up the merits of the whole mythologie tribe in a handsome distich — Gods partial, changeful, passionate, unjust, Whose attributes were rage, revenge, or lust." ,' * " Of whatsoe'r descent his Godhead be, Stock, stone, or other homely pedigree, In his defence... | |
 | William Warburton - Bible - 1837 - 720 pages
...of religious worship. In the words of the great poet, "Gods partial, changeful, passionate, imjust, Whose attributes were rage, revenge, or lust; Such as the souls of cowards might conceive, And, form'd like tyrant;, tyrants would believe."* But, 3. The mode of public worship was alone sufficient... | |
 | William Jones - Church history - 1838 - 568 pages
...Essay on Man:— "Gods partial, changeful, passionate, unjust, Whose attributes were rage, revenge, and lust; Such as the souls of cowards might conceive, And, formed like tyrants, tynmts would believe." The reader who has perused his version of Homer, which• no doubt, furnishes... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1839 - 510 pages
...Saw gods descend, and fiends infernal rise : Here fix'd the dreadful, there the blest abodes ; i Fear -G v . W ~ V t'orm'd like tyrants, tyrants would believe. Zeal then, not charity, became the guide ; And hell was... | |
 | Origen Bacheler, Robert Dale Owen - Bible - 1840 - 386 pages
...Fierce gods descend, and fiends infernal rise ; Here fixed the dreadful, there the blessed abodes; Fear made her devils, and weak hope her gods; Gods partial,...changeful, passionate, unjust, Whose attributes were rage, revenue, or lust; Such as the souls of cowards might conceive, And, formed like tyrants, tyrants might... | |
 | Free thought - 1842 - 1124 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,...Such as the souls of cowards might conceive, And, form'd like tyrants, tyrants would believe. Zeal then, not charity, became the guide, And hell was... | |
 | F. Francillon - English language - 1842 - 118 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,... | |
 | John Aikin - English poetry - 1843 - 826 pages
...; Fear made her devils, and weak Hope her gods j Gods partial, changeful, passionate, unjust, Whoso fair; And leaves the semblance of a lover fix'd In melancholy site, form'd like tyrants, tyrants would believe. Zeal, then, not charity, became the guide ; And Hell was... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1844 - 94 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 : 32 ESSATONMAN. Such as the souls of cowards might conceive, And, form'd like tyrants, tyrants would... | |
 | Atheism - 1844 - 94 pages
...hope her gods, Gods partial, changeful, vengeful and unjust, Whose attributes were rage, revenge and lust, Such as the souls of cowards might conceive, And formed like tyrants, tyrants might believe." Here gentlemen, we have compressed into eight lines "a whole history" of gods and devils.... | |
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