 | Dugald Stewart - 1854 - 660 oldal
...expressions, equally inconsistent with each other and with his own avowed opinions : If plagues and earthquakes break not Heaven's design, Why then a Borgia or a Catiline '•— Who knows but He whose hand the lightning forms. * World (it inn-i be remembered) is here synonymous... | |
 | William Chauncey Fowler - 1855 - 786 oldal
...for a proper name ; or an office, or profession, or science instead of the true name of a person. 1. If plagues or earthquakes break not Heaven's design, Why then a Borgia or a Catiline f — POPE. 9. Galileo, the Columbus of the heavens. 3. The Ninbe of nations, there she stands, Childless... | |
 | Alonzo Potter - 1855 - 436 oldal
...apostles, as missionaries of the Most High—preadjusted parts in nature's universal plan. If plagues and earthquakes break not Heaven's design, Why then a Borgia, or a Catiline ? This may be the philosophy of a rationalizing poet, but it is surely not the philosophy of the Bible;... | |
 | 1855 - 436 oldal
...apostles, as missionaries of the Most High — preadjusted parts in nature's universal plan. If plagues and earthquakes break not Heaven's design, Why then a Borgia, or a Catiline ? This may be the philosophy of a rationalizing poet, but it is surely not the philosophy of the Bible... | |
 | Alexander Pope, George Gilfillan - 1856 - 356 oldal
...Man's desires ; As much eternal springs and cloudless skies, As men for ever temperate, calm, and wise. If plagues or earthquakes break not Heaven's design, Why then a Borgia, or a Catiline ? Who knows but He, whose hand the lightning forms, Who heaves old Ocean, and who wings the storms,... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1856 - 352 oldal
...Man's desires ; As much eternal springs and cloudless skies, As men for ever temperate, calm, and wise. If plagues or earthquakes break not Heaven's design, Why then a Borgia, or a Catiline 1 Who knows but He, whose hand the lightning forms, Who heaves old Ocean, and who wings the storms,... | |
 | Geoffrey Chaucer - 1856 - 134 oldal
...Man's desires ; As much eternal springs and cloudless skies, As men forever temperate, calm, and wise. If plagues or earthquakes break not Heaven's design, Why then a Borgia or a Cataline t Who knows but he whose hand the lightning forms, Who heaves old Ocean, and who wings the... | |
 | Ernest Adams - 1858 - 200 oldal
...by the conjunction if (OE ffif). This word is in reality the imperative present of the verb give : If plagues or earthquakes break not Heaven's design, Why then a Borgia or a Catiline ? — Pope. ie give or grant that plagues or earthquakes, &c. 506. The conjunction is sometimes omitted,... | |
 | William Chauncey Fowler - 1858 - 424 oldal
...for a proper name ; or an office, or profession, or science instead of the true name of a person. 1. If plagues or earthquakes break not Heaven's design, Why then a Borgia or a Catiline ? — POPE. i. Galileo, the Columbus of the heavens. 3. The Niobe of nations, there she stands, Childless... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1859 - 330 oldal
...man's desires ; As much eternal springs and cloudless skies, As men for ever temperate, calm, and wise. If plagues or earthquakes break not Heaven's design, Why then a Borgia or a Catiline ! Who knows but He, whose hand the lightning forms, From pride, from pride, our very reasoning springs... | |
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Who knows but He whose hand the lightning forms, Who heaves old ocean, and who wings the storms, Pours fierce ambition in a Caesar's mind... 
