 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
 | Thomas Jefferson Sawyer - Future punishment - 1845 - 262 pages
...superstition, which was equally powerless to good, perhaps, but more mischievous in its tendencies. • " Fear made her Devils, and weak hope her Gods, Gods partial,...unjust, Whose attributes were rage, revenge or lust." Among the children of Israel, there was of course a far more consistent Theology. They enjoyed the... | |
 | William Hazlitt - Great Britain - 1845 - 432 pages
...and Pope long after summed up the merits of the whole mythologic tribe in a handsome distich — " Gods partial, changeful, passionate, unjust, Whose attributes were rage, revenge, or lust." It was thought a bold stride to divert the course of our imaginations, the overflowings of our enthusiasm,... | |
 | Lydia Howard Sigourney - Gift books - 1845 - 338 pages
...was said to have been " easier to find a god than a man." Her purity revolted from the rights of " Gods partial, changeful, passionate, unjust, Whose attributes were rage, revenge, or lust" Plato led her to the gate of truth, and taught her to breathe the pure atmosphere that surrounded it;... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1846 - 328 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,...passionate, unjust, Whose attributes were rage, revenge, or lifet ; Such as the souls of cowards might conceive, And, form'd like tyrants, tyrants would believe.... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1847 - 524 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... | |
 | John Gideon Millingen - Emotions - 1848 - 496 pages
...Polytheism ; when man must have believed in the plurality of the gods, or have been an atheist. " Fear made her devils, and weak Hope her gods ; Gods partial,...passionate, unjust, Whose attributes were rage, revenge, and lust. Such as the souls of cowards might conceive, And, form'd like tyrants, tyrants would believe."*... | |
 | Alexander Pope, William Charles Macready - 1849 - 646 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... | |
 | DeWitt Clinton, William W. Campbell - Biography & Autobiography - 1849 - 436 pages
...Deity had no agency in the concerns of this world, or adopted the system of polytheism, and believed in Gods partial, changeful, passionate, unjust ; Whose attributes were rage, revenge, or lust. In this state of moral darkness, Jesus Christ appeared, pointing out the way to heaven, and shedding... | |
 | 124 pages
...and Pope long after summed up the merits of the whole mythologic tribe in a handsome distich : — Gods, partial, changeful, passionate, unjust, Whose attributes were rage, revenge, or lust. It was thought a bold stride to divert the course of our imaginations, the overflowings of our enthusiasm,... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1850 - 94 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... | |
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