 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
 | Martin MACDERMOT, Martin M'Dermot - 1823 - 434 pages
...sun ; Go, soar with Plato to th" empyreal sphere, To the first good, first perfect, and first fair ; Go, teach eternal wisdom how to rule, Then drop into thyself, and be a fool ! A French poet, M. Millevoye, availing himself of this doctrine, at present so popular and so fashionable... | |
 | Lionel Thomas Berguer - 1823 - 650 pages
...FLATMAN. 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 sbew'da Newton, as we shew an ape. —... | |
 | John Hawkesworth - 1823 - 302 pages
...FLATMAN. 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, Admired such wisdom in an earthly shape, And show'da Newton, as we sllow an ape. POPE.... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1824 - 1062 pages
...good, first perfect, and first fair; Or tread the mazy round his followers trod, And quitting sense v ]g . <zx $ {J 傃 nature's law, Admir'd such wisdom in an earthly shape, And shew'da Nuwtou as we shew an ape. Could... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1824 - 422 pages
...good, first perfect, and first fair ; Or tread the mazy round his followers trod, 25 And quitting sense call imitating God ; As Eastern priests in giddy circles...to rule — Then drop into thyself, and be a fool ! 30 NOTES. Ver. 22. Correct old Time, #c.] This alludes to Newton's Grecian Chronology, which he reformed... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1824 - 424 pages
...good, first perfect, and first fair ; Or tread the mazy round his followers trod, 25 And quitting sense call imitating God ; As Eastern priests in giddy circles...to rule — Then drop into thyself, and be a fool ! 30 NOTES. Ver. 23. Correct old Time, #c.] This alludes to Newton's Grecian Chronology, which he reformed... | |
 | 1824 - 456 pages
...air, and state the tides ; Instruct the planets in what orbs to run, Correct old Time, and regulate the Sun :-— ***** Go, teach Eternal Wisdom how to...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. Pope's... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1824 - 84 pages
...first perfect, and first fair ; Or tread the mazy round his foll'wers trod, • And quitting sense, call imitating God ; As eastern priests in giddy circles...run, And turn their heads to imitate the sun. Go, tench Eternal Wisdom hoTr to rule— r Then drop into thyself, and be a fool ! 31 Superior beings,... | |
 | Tobias Merton (pseud) - 1824 - 476 pages
...air, and state the tides ; Instruct the planets in what orbs to rnn; Correct old lime, and regulate the sun ; Go, teach Eternal Wisdom how to rule, Then drop into thyself, and be a fool ! Could he, whose rules the rapid comet bind, Describe or fix one movement of his mind ? Good sense,... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1824 - 80 pages
...good, first perfect, and first fair ; Or tread the mazy round his foll'wers trod, And quitting sense, call imitating God ; As eastern priests in giddy circles run, And turn their hcaA* to imitate the sun. Go, teach Eternal Wisdom how to rulp — Then drop into thyself, and be a... | |
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