 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 - 1824 - 430 pages
...by what rules the wand'ring planets stray, Correct old Time, and teach the Sun his way. ffarbwrton. Superior beings, when of late they saw A mortal Man unfold all Nature's law, COMMENTARY. Ver. 31. Superior beings, #c.] To give this second argument its full force,... | |
 | British anthology - 1825 - 460 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...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. Could... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1825 - 536 pages
...glory, jest, and riddle of the world ! Or tread the mazy round his followers trod, And quitting sense call imitating God ; As Eastern priests in giddy circles...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... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1825 - 600 pages
...imitating God ; As eastern priosts in giddy eireles run, And turn their heads to imitate the sun. Go, teaeh Eternal Wisdom how to rule — Then drop into thyself...beings, when of late they saw A mortal man unfold all nature's law, Admir'd sueh wisdom in an earthly shape, And show'da Newton as we show an ape. Could... | |
 | John Aikin - 1826 - 840 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...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 - 1828 - 222 pages
...good, first perfec', and first fair; Or tread the mazy round his followers trod ; And, quitting sense, call imitating God; As eastern priests in giddy circles...to rule— Then drop into thyself, and be a fool! guide?; Superior beings, when of late they saw A mortal man unfold all nature's law. Admir'd such wisdom... | |
 | Henry Dana Ward - 1828 - 428 pages
...wondrous Creature! mount where science guides. " Go, measure earth, weigh air, and state the tides;— " Go, teach eternal wisdom how to rule, - Then drop into thyself, and be a fool!" But the apostle's exclamation is to the point: " without controversy, great is the mystery of godliness:... | |
 | Thomas Curtis - 1829 - 878 pages
...crown, Just writes to make his barrenness appear. Pope. This beastly line quite turn« my stomach. Id. Eastern priests in giddy circles run, And turn their heads to imitate the sun. Thus a wise taylor is not pinching, But funis at even1 seam an inch in. Swift. The nymph will have... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1830 - 500 pages
...good, first perfect, and first fair ; Or tread the mazy round his followers trod, And quitting sense of Pope will be DO more disputed. Had he given the...writer of the ' Iliad' were to class his successors, ! 30 Superior beings, when of late they saw A mortal man unfold all nature's law, Admired such wisdom... | |
 | Samuel B. EMMONS - 1832 - 168 pages
...good, first perfect and first fair; Or tread the mazy round his follow'rs trod, And quitting sense, call imitating God ; As eastern priests in giddy circles...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... | |
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