 | Alexander Pope - 1856 - 512 sider
...individuals, in every state, and every age of life. I. KNOW then thyself, presume not God to scan, f The proper study of mankind is Man. Plac'd on this...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;... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1856 - 352 sider
...273, &0. I. 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...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... | |
 | Alexander Pope, George Gilfillan - 1856 - 356 sider
...273, &c. I. 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...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... | |
 | Robert Carruthers - 1857 - 554 sider
...curiosa felicitas as well as Pope. The poet tells us, in a beautiful couplet, that man is " Placed on this isthmus of a middle state, A being darkly wise and rudely great." St. John moralises in a like strain : " This is the condition of humanity : we are placed, as it were,... | |
 | Lucius Osgood - 1858 - 494 sider
...her ^ruiipel-horn. 4. How dear | to this heart ^ are the scenes | pf my childhood ! 5. Placed | on an isthmus [[ of a middle | state, A being | darkly wise || and rudely | great. 6. Warms | in the sun, || refreshes | in the breeze, Glows | in the stars, || and blossoms | in the... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1860 - 542 sider
...of life. I. 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...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... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1860 - 60 sider
...imperfections. ; NOW 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...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... | |
 | George Augustus Sala, Edmund Yates - 1874 - 588 sider
...settled : " 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...and rudely great ; With too much knowledge for the sceptic side, With two much weakness for the Stoic's pride, He hangs between ; in doubt to act, or... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1860 - 632 sider
...&c. EPISTLE II. K.vow then thyself, presume not God to scan ' oper study of mankind is man. Placed on this isthmus of a middle state, A being darkly...and rudely great : With too much knowledge for the sceptic side, With too much weakness for the Stoic's pride, lie hangs between ; in doubt to act, or... | |
 | Henry Southgate - 1862 - 774 sider
...Proper Study of. Know then thyself, presume not God to scan ; The proper study of mankind is man. Placed ߨ P sceptic side, With too much greatness for the stoic's pride ; He hangs between, in doubt to act or... | |
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Know then thyself, presume not God to scan; The proper study of Mankind is Man. Plac'd 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,... 
