 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
 | Thomas Ewing - 1832 - 428 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 rule — Then drop into thyself, and be a fool ! POPE. 45. VICE AND VIRTUE. FOOLS but too oft into the notion fall, That Vice or Virtue there is none... | |
 | Charles Bucke - 1832 - 328 pages
...should not those fine lines, in the Essay on Man, be applied to your demi-god, as well as Newton ? ' Superior beings, when of late they saw A mortal man unfold all nature's law,' &c. " I am, my dear sir, very affectionately yours, Among the friends of Akenside may... | |
 | Thomas Brown - 1833 - 800 pages
...| Go, soar with Plato to th empyreal sphere. To the first good, first perfect, and first fair ; On, teach eternal wisdom how to rule — Then drop into thyself, and be a fool !"• That man should know BO much of the universe, and so very little of himself, is, indeed, one... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1835 - 350 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...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... | |
 | William Leo-Wolf - 1835 - 284 pages
...nonsense to stipulate any condition for a power said to act always absolutely and unconditionally ?* "Go teach eternal wisdom how to rule, " Then drop into thyself and be a fool." — Pope. * As a specimen of the many revolting expressions in regard to the infallibility of their... | |
 | Arend Fokke - 1835 - 310 pages
...follow'rs trod, And quitting sense call imitating God; As eastern priests in giddy circles run , And thuru their heads to imitate the Sun. Go, teach Eternal Wisdom how to rule... Theu drop into thyself , and he a fooi l 1'ufB, Ett. on Man , Ep. II. Dat is: » Ga j verwonderlijk... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1836 - 502 pages
...good, first perfect, and first fair ; Or tread the mazy round his followers trod, And quitting sense u w w waH#w9r:r;r w v v v(n f/u)r n v t p t t6r hDw v ulwzH{H|H*r/w0w1w H H H hbwcwdw d|Z}ZP]"a w P P h;wK he a fool ! 30 Superior heings, when of late they saw A mortal man unfold all nature's law, Admired... | |
 | William Cowper - 1836 - 402 pages
...groves Of golden fruitage and her myrtle bowers. 215 To shake thy senate, and from heights sublime 11 Go, teach eternal wisdom how to rule, Then drop into thyself and be a fool. Pope, Essay on Munt ii. 29. Of patriot eloquence to flash down fire Upon thy foes, was never meant... | |
 | William Cowper - 1836 - 416 pages
...groves Of golden fruitage and her myrtle bowers. 215 To shake thy senate, and from heights sublime " Go, teach eternal wisdom how to rule, Then drop into thyself and be a fool. Of patriot eloquence to flash down fire Upon thy foes, was never meant my task ; But I can feel thy... | |
 | Charles Bucke - 1837 - 422 pages
...wond'rous 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 * ! * Pope, Epist. ii. v. 30. 7. 2 Nume non v. e ? de' tiumi i puri argenti, L' aer che spiri, il suolo... | |
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