 | 1844 - 398 páginas
...designed. Man alone they saw restless and unsatisfied : — " Placed on this isthmus of a middle Elate, A being darkly wise and rudely great ; With too much knowledge for the seeptic's side. With too much weakness for the stoic's pride, He hangs between in doubt to act or rest,... | |
 | Mark Hopkins - 1846 - 396 páginas
...reason and passion, conscience and desire, often seem to be, and are, opposing forces, and man is left "In doubt to act or rest, In doubt to deem himself a god or beast, In doubt his soul or body to prefer." " The intestine war of reason against the passions," says Pascal, " has given... | |
 | Mark Hopkins - 1846 - 530 páginas
...reason and passion, conscience and desire, often seem to be, and are, opposing forces, and man is left " In doubt to act or rest, In doubt to deem himself a god or beast, In doubt his soul or body to prefer." " The intestine war of reason against the passions," says Pascal, " has given... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1846 - 328 páginas
...EPISTLE II. I. KNOW then thyself, presume not God to scan The proper study of mankind is man. Placed on this isthmus of a middle state, A being darkly wise, and rudely groat : With too much knowledge for the sceptic side, With too much weakness for the Stoic's pride,... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1847 - 524 páginas
...&c. EPISTLE II. I. KNOW then thyself, presume not God to scan ; The proper study of Mankind is Man. Plac'd on this isthmus of a middle state, A Being darkly wise, and rudely great : COMMENTARY. Ver. 2. The proper study, $c.] The Poet having shown, in the first epistle, that the... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1848 - 642 páginas
...and every age of life, ver. 273, &c. EPISTLE II. Placed on this isthmus of a middle state, A heing darkly wise, and rudely great : With too much knowledge...too much weakness for the Stoic's pride, He hangs hetween ; in douht to act, or rest ; In douht to deem himself a god, or heast ; In douht his mind or... | |
 | Samuel Shuckford - 1848 - 564 páginas
...scale of life and sense, 'tis plain, There must be, somewhere, such a rank as man. — Plac'd on the isthmus of a middle state, A being darkly wise and rudely great'. There must be somewhere, in the ascents up from sense to the heights of reason, a rank of creatures... | |
 | Alexander Pope, William Charles Macready - 1849 - 646 páginas
...of life. I. KNOW then thyself, presume not God to scan, The proper study of mankind is Man. Placed on this isthmus of a middle state, A being darkly...doubt to deem himself a god, or beast ; In doubt his mind or body to prefer ; Born but to die, and reasoning but to err ; Alike in ignorance, his reason... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1850 - 94 páginas
...•• EPISTLE II. I. Know then thyself, presume not God to scan; The proper study of Mankind is man. Plac'd on this Isthmus of a middle state, • A being...doubt to deem himself a God; or Beast; In doubt, his Mind or Body to prefer; Born but to die, and reas'ning but to err; Alike in ignorance, his reason such,... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1850 - 510 páginas
...&cEPISTLE II. I. KNOW then thyself, presume not God to scauj The proper study of mankind is man. Placed on this isthmus of a middle state, A being darkly...side, With too much weakness for the Stoic's pride, lie hangs between ; in doubt to act, or rest; In doubt to deem himself a god, or beast ; In doubt his... | |
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Placed on this isthmus of a middle state, A being darkly wise, and rudely great : With too much knowledge for the sceptic side, With too much weakness for the stoic's pride, He hangs between; in doubt to act, or rest; In doubt to deem himself a god, or... 
