 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 ... - Pagina 10di Alexander Pope - 1736 - 32 pagineVisualizzazione completa - Informazioni su questo libro
 | Alexander Pope - 1824 - 422 pagine
...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...peculiar spot, To draw nutrition, propagate, and rot ; COMMENTARY. Ver. 53. Two Principles, fyc.] The Poet having shewn the difficulty which attends the... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1824 - 424 pagine
...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...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 - 84 pagine
...Reason's comparing balance rules the whole. 30 Man. out for that, no action could attend, And, out tor this, were active to no end ; Fix'd like a plant on...nutrition, propagate and rot ; Or. meteor-like, flame lawless through the void, 65 Destroying oilier^, tv himself destroy'd. Most strength tne moving prmciple... | |
 | Charles M. Ingersoll - 1825 - 298 pagine
...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... | |
 | British anthology - 1825 - 460 pagine
...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 : Fix'd, like a plaut, on his peculiar spot, To draw nutrition, propagate, and rot; Or, meteor-like, flame lawless... | |
 | John Aikin - 1826 - 840 pagine
...comparing balance 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,... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1830 - 500 pagine
...motion, acts the soul ; Reason's comparing balance rules the whole. 60 Man, but for that, no action gods revere, The poor and stranger are their constant...He wanders with them, and he feels their wrongs. F lawless through the void, Destroying others, by himself destroy'd. Most etrengih the moving principle... | |
 | Jesse Torrey - 1830 - 336 pagine
...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 through the void, Destroying others, by himself destroy'd. 5 Most strength the moving principle... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1832 - 86 pagine
...whole. GO Man, but for that, no action could attend, And, but for this, were active to no end ; Kix'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... | |
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