 | Entries - 1853 - 320 páginas
...made ? Is all that was intended by his intellectual and moral attributes accomplished, when he is ' Fix'd like a plant on his peculiar spot, To draw nutrition, propagate, and rot ? ' If so, to what purpose are these powers ? Is there not waste on the part of the Giver, and burdensome... | |
 | House of Refuge (Philadelphia, Pa.) - 1855 - 176 páginas
...perseverance, and an unfaltering faith in their power, in order to produce the desired effect. SECTION I. Reason's comparing balance rules the whole, Man, but...draw nutrition, propagate, and rot; Or, meteor-like, name lawless through the void, Destroying others, by himself destroy'd. — POPE. Ignorance is a cause... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1856 - 512 páginas
...Self-love, to urge, and Reason, to restrain ; Nor this a good, nor that a bad we call, Each works it's end, to move or govern all • And to their proper...attend, And, but for this, were active to no end: F ix d like a plant on his peculiar spot, To draw nutrition, propagate, and rot; Or, meteor-like, flame... | |
 | Geoffrey Chaucer - 1856 - 134 páginas
...move or govern all : And to their proper operation still Ascribe all good, to their improper, ill. Self-love, the spring of motion, acts the soul ; Reason's...whole. Man, but for that, no action could attend ; And, hut for this, were active to no end : Fix'd like a plant on his peculiar spot, To draw nutrition, propagate,... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1856 - 352 páginas
...move or govern all : And to their proper operation still, Ascribe all good ; to their improper, ill. Self-love, the spring of motion, acts the soul ; Reason's comparing balance rules the whole. eo Man, but for that, no action could attend, And, but for this, were active to no end : Fix'd like... | |
 | Alexander Pope, George Gilfillan - 1856 - 356 páginas
...move or govern all : And to their proper operation still, Ascribe all good ; to their improper, ill. Self-love, the spring of motion, acts the soul ; Reason's comparing balance rules the whole. eo Man, but for that, no action could attend, And, but for this, were active to no end : Fix'd like... | |
 | 1857 - 588 páginas
...should try Aird's " Poems," and he will not fail to please the receiver. N. SELF-LOVE AND KEASON. — Self-love, the spring of motion, acts the soul ; [Reason's...balance rules the whole ; Man, but for that, no action would attend, And but for this, were active to no end. — Pope. AGE. — What is age, QUESTIONS REQUIRING... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1859 - 504 páginas
...move or govern all : And to their proper operation still, Ascribe all good ; to their improper, ill. 5 hia peculiar spot, To draw nutrition, propagate, and rot ; Or, meteor-like, flame lawless through the... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1860 - 632 páginas
...move or govern all; And to their proper operation still, Ascribe all good, to their improper, ill. Self-love, the spring of motion, acts the soul Reason's comparing balance rules the whole. 60 Man, but for that, no action could atlend, And. but for this, were active to no end: Fix'd like... | |
 | Jacob Lowres - 1862 - 192 páginas
...attribute all that is good, and to their improper, all that is evil. EXERCISE. Continuation of the above. Self-love, the spring of motion, acts the soul; Reason's...comparing balance rules the whole; Man, but for that, could to no action tend, And but for this, were active to no end, Pix'd like a plant to his peculiar... | |
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Self-love, the spring 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 end : Fixed like a plant on his peculiar spot, To draw nutrition, propagate, and... 
