 | John Sartain, Caroline Matilda Kirkland, John Seely Hart - 1851 - 504 páginas
...approved thy exile, than when the commonwealth approved thy consulship !" In the Essay, Pope says : "Superior beings, when of late they saw A mortal man unfold all Nature's law, Admired such wisdom in an earthly shape, And showed a Newton, as we show an ape." This nearly approaches... | |
 | 1852 - 874 páginas
...to imitate the Sun. Go, teach Eternal Wisdom how to rule — Then drop into thyself, and be a fool ! be less Car'd not to be at all ; with that care lost Went all his fear : of show'da Newton as we show an ape. Could he, whose rules the rapid comet bind, Describe or fix one movement... | |
 | Robert Charles Winthrop - 1852 - 804 páginas
...benevolence ; nor had he postponed the more serious preparations for death to the scanty and precarious * " Superior Beings, when of late they saw A mortal man...law, Admir'd such wisdom in an earthly shape, And show'da Newton as we show an ape." opportunities of a last illness. He had embraced the religion of... | |
 | Robert Charles Winthrop - 1852 - 876 páginas
...benevolence ; nor had he postponed the more serious preparations for death to the scanty and precarious * " Superior Beings, when of late they saw A mortal man...law, Admir'd such wisdom in an earthly shape, And show'da Newton as we show'an ape." opportunities of a last illness. He had embraced the religion of... | |
 | Robert Charles Winthrop - 1852 - 402 páginas
...benevolence; nor had he postponed the more serious preparations for death to the scanty and precarious * " Superior Beings, when of late they saw A mortal man unfold all nature's law, Admir'd such wisdom la an earthly shape, And show'da Newton as wo show an ape." opportunities of a last illness. He had... | |
 | George Frederick Graham - 1852 - 570 páginas
...imitate the sun. Go, teach Eternal Wisdom how to rule, — Then drop into thyself, and be a fool ! 30 Superior beings, when of late they saw A mortal man unfold all nature's law, Admired such wisdom in an earthly shape, And showed a Newton2 as we show an ape. Could he whose rules... | |
 | Robert Charles Winthrop - 1852 - 802 páginas
...benevolence; nor had he postponed the more serious preparations for death to the scanty and precarious * " Superior Beings, when of late they saw A mortal man unfold all nature's fasv, Admit' d such wisdom in an earthly shape, And show'da Newton as we show an ape." opportunities... | |
 | Cyclopaedia - 1853 - 772 páginas
...wise? 'Tis but to know how little can be known, To see all others' faults, and feel our own. Pope. Superior beings, when of late they saw A mortal man...law, Admir'd such wisdom in an earthly shape, And show'da Newton, as we show an ape. Pope. Ah! when did wisdom covet length of days? Or seek its bliss... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1853 - 332 páginas
...Wisdom how to rule — Then drop into thyself, and be a fool ! Superior beings, when of late they saw J A mortal man unfold all Nature's law, Admir'd such wisdom in an earthly shape, And show'da Newton as we show an ape. Could He, whose rules the rapid comet bind, Describe or fix one movement... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1853 - 336 páginas
...imitate the sun. Go, teach Eternal Wisdom how to rule — Then drop into thyself, and be a fool ! 30 Superior beings, when of late they saw A mortal man unfold all Nature's law, Admired such wisdom in an earthly shape, And show'da Newton as we show an ape.4 4 [An unhappy illustration.... | |
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Superior beings, when of late they saw A mortal man unfold all nature's law, Admir'd such wisdom in an earthly shape, And shew'da Newton as we shew an ape. 
