Man, but for that, no action could attend, And, but for this, were active to no end: Fix'd like a plant on his peculiar spot, To draw nutrition, propagate, and rot: Or, meteor-like, flame lawless through the void, Destroying others, by himself destroy'd. An essay on man [by A. Pope]. With some humourous verses on the death of ... - 10. oldalszerző: Alexander Pope - 1736 - 32 oldalTeljes nézet - Információ erről a könyvről
| Eduard Adolf Ferdinand Maetzner - 1874 - 598 oldal
...noticed. I hardly yet have learn'd To insinuate, flatter, bow and bend my knee (SHAKSP., Rich. II. 4, 1.). Fix'd like a plant on his peculiar spot, To draw nutrition, propagate, and rot (POPE, Essay on M. 2, 63.). I've sent our trustiest friend To see and sift him (BuL\v., Richel 5, 2.).... | |
| Otto Duchâteau, Theodor Ludwig Duchâteau - 1875 - 62 oldal
...motion, acts the soûl : ,,Reason's comparing balance rules the whole. ,,Man, but for that, no action could attend, ,,And, but for this, were active to...spot, ,,To draw nutrition, propagate. and rot."*) (Ép. II, v. 59-0;? ,,The rising tempest**) puts in act the soul, ,,Parts it may ravage, but preserves... | |
| John Bartlett - 1875 - 890 oldal
...truth, in endless error hurl'd ; The glory, jest, and riddle of the world ! J Epistle ii. Line 13. Fix'd like a plant on his peculiar spot, To draw nutrition, propagate, and rot. Epistle ii. Line 63. On life's vast ocean diversely we sail, Reason the card, but passion is the gale.... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1878 - 138 oldal
...motion, acts the soul; Reason's comparing balance rules the whole. 60 Man, but for that, no action could attend, And, but for this, were active to no...nutrition, propagate, and rot: Or, meteor-like, flame lawless thro' the void, Destroying others, by himself destroy'd. Most strength the moving principle... | |
| William Dodge Herrick - 1878 - 612 oldal
...not fail of being honored. But the man who has no other ambition, than to be, as Pope says, " Fixed like a plant, on his peculiar spot, To draw nutrition, propagate and rot," will have little to comfort himself or others, while he lives, and dying will not be regretted. Gardner... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1879 - 130 oldal
...whole. 60 Man, but for that, no action could attend, And, but for this, were active to no end : Fixed like a plant on his peculiar spot, To draw nutrition, propagate, and rot ; Or, meteor-like, flame lawless through the void, 65 Destroying others, by himself destroyed. Most strength the moving principle... | |
| Lady Elizabeth Vassall Fox Holland - 1908 - 324 oldal
...my taste, is too uneven. The columns are squat and clumsy. The inhabitants are savage and ignorant. Fix'd like a plant on his peculiar spot, To draw nutrition, propagate, and rot, seems exactly their state. The cicerone assured us that in one of the temples there was a prodigious... | |
| 1910 - 492 oldal
...of motion, acts the soul; Reason's comparing balance rules the whole. Man, but for that, no action could attend, And, but for this, were active to no...nutrition, propagate, and rot : Or, meteor-like, flame lawless thro' the void, Destroying others, by himself destroy'd. Most strength the moving principle... | |
| Alphonso Gerald Newcomer, Alice Ebba Andrews - 1910 - 778 oldal
...whole. 60 Man, but for that, no action could attend, And, but for this, were active to no end: Fixed ronts me, and God is seen God In the star, in the stone, in the flesh, in the soul and the clod. lawless thro ' the void, i Alluding to tlin reformation of the calendar, which bad fallen some twelve... | |
| Henry George Bohn, Anna Lydia Ward - 1911 - 784 oldal
...Man is practis'd in disguise. He cheats the most discerning eyes. 3053 (fay: Fables. Introduction. Fix'd like a plant on his peculiar spot, To draw nutrition, propagate, and rot. Know then thyself, presume not God to scan, The proper study of mankind is Man. Plac'd on this isthmus... | |
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