| John Gillies - 1820 - 544 sider
...! Ecce Syracusii ludimur arte scnis. Pope, if he did not borrow, has hit on, the same thought, — Admired such wisdom in an earthly shape, And showed a Newton as we show an ape. Essay on Man, Epist. nv SS, .14. CHAP, discord thus raged more widely: cities were taken, lost, and... | |
| British poets - 1822 - 276 sider
...Eternal Wisdom how to rule— Then drop into thyself, and be a fool! Superior beings, when of late they saw A mortal man unfold all Nature's law, Admired such wisdom in an earthly shape, And show'da Newton, as we show an ape. Could He, whose rules the rapid comet bind, Describe or fix one... | |
| John Hawkesworth - 1823 - 302 sider
...furnished. him with the two following thoughts in the Essay on Man : Superior beings, when of late they saw A mortal man unfold all nature's law, Admired such wisdom in an earthly shape, And show'da Newton, as we sllow an ape. POPE. Ufque movet nobis imitatrix simia riswn, Sic nos cfelicolis,... | |
| British essayists - 1823 - 686 sider
...Charron furnished him with the two following thoughts in the Essay on Man : Superior beings, when of late they saw A mortal man unfold all nature's law; Admired such wisdom in an earthly shape, And show'da Newton, as we show an ape. TOO, Utque movet nobii imtiatrix simia risum, Sie nos ciclicolis,... | |
| 1824 - 456 sider
...Eternal Wisdom how to rule — Then drop into thyself, and be a fool ! Superior beings, when of late they saw A mortal man unfold all Nature's law, Admired such wisdom in an earthly shape, And show'da Newton as we show an ape. Pope's Essay on Man, Ep. ii. 19. 4. Scared at thy frown terrific,... | |
| 1824 - 678 sider
...expressed this feeling, by a fine comparison and striking contrast ! Superior beings, whin of late they saw, A mortal man unfold all nature's law, Admired such wisdom in earthly shape, And shewed a .rWwrcin, as we shew an Apt t Your's, &c., JOHN MACDONALO, Putnty, JuneS,... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1825 - 536 sider
...Eternal Wisdom how to rule — Then drop into thyself, and be a fool ! 30 Superior beings, when of late they saw A mortal man unfold all nature's law, Admired such wisdom in an earthly shape, And shew'da Newton as we shew an ape. Could he, whose rules the rapid comet bind, Describe or fix one movement... | |
| British anthology - 1825 - 460 sider
...Eternal Wisdom how to rule — Then drop into thyself, and be a fool ! Superior beings, when of late they saw A mortal man unfold all Nature's law, Admired such wisdom in an earthly shape, And show'da Newton as we show an ape. Could He, whose rules the rapid comet bind, Describe or fix one movement... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1828 - 264 sider
...Eternal Wisdom how to rule — Then drop into thyself, and be a fool ! Superior beings, when of late they saw A mortal man unfold all nature's law, Admired such wisdom in an earthly shape, ,\nd show'da Newton as we show an ape. Could he, whose rules the rapid comet bind. Describe or fix... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1830 - 500 sider
...Eternal Wisdom how to rule — Then drop into thyself, and be a fool ! 30 Superior beings, when of late o bis show'da Newton as we show an ape. Could he, whose rules the rapid comet bind, Describe or fix one movement... | |
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