 As Eastern priests in giddy circles run, And turn their heads to imitate the sun. Go, teach Eternal Wisdom how to rule — Then drop into thyself, and be a fool!  La Belle Assemblée - Page 301808Full view - About this book
 | Alexander Pope, Thomas Park - 1808 - 328 pages
...good, first perfect, and first fair ; Or tread the mazy round his followers trod, And quitting sense call, imitating God ; As eastern priests in giddy...beings, when of late they saw 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... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1808 - 702 pages
...first perfect, and first fair; Or tread the mazy round his followers trod, .And quitting sense cull imitating God ; As eastern priests in giddy circles...to imitate the sun. Go teach Eternal Wisdom how to ruleThen drop into thyself, and be a fool ! Superior beings, when of late they saw A mortal man unfold... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1808 - 334 pages
...FLATM AN. Palingenius and Charron furnished him with the two following thoughts in the Essay on Man : 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 Newten, as we shew an ape. POPE.... | |
 | Vicesimus Knox - 1809 - 604 pages
...good, first perfect, and first fair ; Qr tread the mazy round his followers trod, And quitting sense heart, still open is thine eye ; Why such magnificence...it — Tho' that immensely great, still g-cntor he, saSv A mortal Man unfold all Nature's law, Admir'd such wisdom in an earthly sh;ipe, And show'da Newton... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 536 pages
...good, first perfect, and first fair; Or tread the mazy round his followers trod, .And quitting sense call imitating God; As eastern priests in giddy circles...to imitate the Sun. Go teach Eternal Wisdom how to ruler-- Then drop jntp thyself, and be a fool I J5$ Superior beings, when of late they saw A mortal... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 546 pages
...good, fitst perfect, and first fair; Or tread the maey round his followers trod, And quitting sense call imitating God ; As eastern priests in giddy circles run, And turn their heads to imitate the Sun. Oo teach Eternal Wisdom how to rule: — • Then drpp into thyself, and be a foul ! 30 Superior beings,... | |
 | William Warburton, Richard Hurd - 1811 - 454 pages
...first fair ; III. Or tread the mazy round his followers trod, And quitting sense call imitating God. Go teach Eternal Wisdom how to rule, Then drop into thyself, and be a fool. Mr. Pope says, Go, wondrous creature ; and he never speaks at random. The reason of his giving Man... | |
 | William Warburton - 1811 - 444 pages
...; i IIL Or III. Or tread the mazy round his followers trodi And quitting sense call imitating God. Go teach Eternal Wisdom how to rule, Then drop into thyself, and be a fool. Mr. Pope says, Go, wondrous creature ; and he never speaks at random; The reason of his giving Man... | |
 | Thomas Keith - 1811 - 388 pages
...spouting water. CHAPTER VIII. Hypothesis of the Antediluvian World, and the Cause of Noah's flood. " Go teach eternal Wisdom how to rule, Then drop into thyself, and be a fool." POPE. THERE have been various opinions, conjectures, and hypotheses, respecting the original formation... | |
 | William Warburton (Bp. of Gloucester), Richard Hurd - 1811 - 446 pages
...force, and sublimity of the Poet's reasoning consist in a right apprehension of them, Mr. Pope — G o teach Eternal Wisdom how to rule, Then drop into thyself, and be a fooL These two lines have only contributed to keep the Translator in his error ; for he took the first of... | |
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