 | Alexander Pope - English poetry - 1824 - 80 pages
...darkly wise, and rudely great : With too much knowledge for the sceptic's aide, i With too much weakness for the stoic's pride, He hangs between : in doubt to act or rest ; In doubts to deem himself a god or beast ; In doubt his mind or body to prefer, Born but to... | |
 | Alexander Pope - English poetry - 1824 - 84 pages
...darkly wise, and rudely great : With too much knowledge for the sceptic's side, With too much weakness for the stoic's pride, He hangs between : in doubt to act or rest ; In doubts to deem himself i> god or b«F.st ; In doubt his mind or body to prefer, Born but... | |
 | William Hazlitt - English poetry - 1824 - 1062 pages
...darkly wise, and rudely great: With too much knowledge for the sceptic side, With too much weakness 'd From Chaos, and th' inroad of darkness old, Satan alighted rest ; In doubt to deem himself a god, or beast; In doubt his mind or body to prefer; Born but to die,... | |
 | Readers - 1824 - 348 pages
...darkly wise, and rudely great : With too much knowledge for the sceptic's side. , With too much weakness for the stoic's pride, He hangs between : in doubt to act or rest : In doubt to deem himself a God or beast ; In doubt his mind or body to prefer : Eorn, but to... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1825 - 536 pages
...darkly wise and rudely great : With too much knowledge for the sceptic side, With too much weakness for the Stoic's pride, He hangs between ; in doubt to act, or rest ; In doubt to deem himself a god, or beast ; In doubt his mind or body to prefer ; Born but to... | |
 | British anthology - 1825 - 460 pages
...darkly wise, and rudely great; With too much knowledge for the sceptic side, With too much weakness for the stoic's pride, He hangs between, in doubt to act or rest ; In doubt to deem himself a god or beast ; In doubt his mind or body to prefer ; Born but to... | |
 | Extracts - 1828 - 786 pages
...darkly wise and rudely great; With too much knowledge for the sceptic side, With loo much weakness for the stoic's pride, He hangs between, in doubt to act or rest, In doubt to deem himself a god or beast; In doubt his mind or body to prefer; Born but to die,... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1830 - 500 pages
...darkly wise, and rudely great : With too much knowledge for the sceptic side, With too much weakness ain'd, To the pure skies these horrid hands to raise, Or offe rest ; 1л doubt to deem himself a god, or beast \ In doubt his mind or body to prefer; Born but to... | |
 | Thomas Ewing - 1832 - 428 pages
...darkly wise, and rudely great ; With too much knowledge for the Sceptic side, With too much weakness for the Stoic's pride, He hangs between ; in doubt to act, or rest ; In doubt to deem himself a God, or beast ; In doubt his mind or body to prefer ; Bom but to... | |
 | Samuel B. EMMONS - English language - 1832 - 168 pages
...darkly wise, and rudely great: With too much knowledge for the sceptic's side, With too much weakness for the stoic's pride, He hangs between; in doubt to act or rest; In doubt to deem himself a god or beast; In doubt his mind or body to prefer, Born but to die,... | |
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KNOW then thyself, presume not God to scan; The proper study of mankind is man. Placed on this isthmus of a middle state, A being darkly wise, and rudely great : With too much knowledge for the sceptic side, With too much weakness for the stoic's pride,... 
