 | Alexander Pope - 1822 - 368 pagine
...the whole. 60 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, 65 Destroying others, by himself destroy 'd. Most strength the moving principle... | |
 | 1822 - 284 pagine
...rules the whole. 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. Most strength the moving principle... | |
 | Jesse Torrey - 1824 - 308 pagine
...rules the whole. 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. 5 Most strength the moving principle... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1824 - 1062 pagine
...rules the whole. 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. Most strength the moving principle... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1824 - 424 pagine
...the whole. 60 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 ; COMMENTARY. Ver. 53. Two Principles, #c.] The Poet having shewn the difficulty which attends the... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1824 - 422 pagine
...the whole. 60 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 ; COMMENTARY. Ver. 53. Two Principles, fyc.] The Poet having shewn the difficulty which attends the... | |
 | Charles M. Ingersoll - 1825 - 298 pagine
...rules the whole. 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 thro' the void. Destroying others, by himself destroy'd. Most strength the moving principle... | |
 | British anthology - 1825 - 460 pagine
...but for that, no action could attend, And but for this, were active to no end : Fix'd, like a plaut, on his peculiar spot, To draw nutrition, propagate, and rot; Or, meteor-like, flame lawless through the void, Destroying others, by himself destroy'd. Most strength the moving principle... | |
 | John Aikin - 1826 - 840 pagine
...rules the whole Man, but for that, no action could attend, And but for this, wore active to no end : Fix'd like a plant on his peculiar spot ; To draw nutrition, propagate, and rot. Or, meteor-likr, flame lawless through the void. Destroying others, by himself destroy'd. Most strength... | |
 | Thomas Curtis - 1829 - 824 pagine
...great animal, and to have nurtured up her young offspring with a conscious tenderness. Bentlri . Fixed like a plant on his peculiar spot, To draw nutrition, propagate and rot. Faff. Does not the body thrive and grow, By food of twenty years ago? And is not virtue in mankind,... | |
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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. 
