 God loves from whole to parts : but human soul Must rise from individual to the whole. Self-love but serves the virtuous mind to wake, As the small pebble stirs the peaceful lake ; The centre mov'd, a circle straight succeeds, Another still, and still...  La Belle Assemblée - Page 401808Full view - About this book
 | British anthology - 1825 - 460 pages
...: Happier as kinder, in whate'er degree, And height of bliss but height of charity. God loves from whole to parts : but human soul Must rise from individual...small pebble stirs the peaceful lake ; The centre moved, a circle straight succeeds, Another still, and still another spreads ; Friend, parent, neighbour,... | |
 | John Ireland - 1825 - 478 pages
...humani. De Fin. lib. vc 23. — Mr. Pope expresses the Academic sentiment in some pleasing lines : — Self-love but serves the virtuous mind to wake, As...Another still, and still another spreads : Friend, parent, neighbour, first it will embrace ; His country next; and next, all human race. itself in all... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1825 - 600 pages
...: Happier as kinder, in whate'er degree, And height of bliss but height of eharity. God loves from elish— a taste — sieken'd over by learning ; At...That you think very slightly of all that's your own peaeeful lake ; The eentre mov'd, a eirele straight sueeeeds, Another still, and still another spreads;... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1825 - 536 pages
...degree, And height of bliss but height of charity. 360 God loves from whole to parts : but human son i Must rise from individual to the whole. Self-love...small pebble stirs the peaceful lake ; The centre moved, a circle straight succeeds, Another still, and still another spreads ; Friend, parent, neighbour,... | |
 | James Hervey - 1825 - 460 pages
...much more efficacious, in Aspasio's mamier of stating the affair, titan in the following famous Hues: Self-love but serves the virtuous mind to wake, As...stirs the peaceful lake : The centre mov'd, a circle strait succeeds, Another still, and still another spreads. Friend, parent, neighbour, first it will... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1826 - 396 pages
...degree, And height of bliss but height of chanty. 360 God loves from whole to parts : bat human eoul little fragments moved, a circle straight succeeds, Another still, and still another spreads; Friend, parent, neighbour,... | |
 | Thomas Brown - 1826 - 522 pages
...moral affections ; it is not any self-love, reflecting on the enjoyments that are thus to be obtained. Self-love but serves the virtuous mind to wake, As...small pebble stirs the peaceful lake ; The centre moved, a circle straight succeeds ; Another st,ll, and still another spreads : Friend, parent, neighbour,... | |
 | John Minter Morgan - 1826 - 294 pages
...delusive theories of education and social improvement. — Our great moral poet has justly observed, " ' Self-love but serves the virtuous mind to wake, As...small pebble stirs the peaceful lake ; The centre moved, a circle straight succeeds, Another still, and still another spreads ; Friend, parent, neighbour,... | |
 | Richard Carlile - 1826 - 878 pages
...citation of the passage will form a complete illustration of my subject — " Self-love but series the virtuous mind to wake, As the small pebble stirs the peaceful lake ; The centra moved, a circle first succeeds, Another still, and still another breeds; Parent, friend, neighbour,... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1826 - 184 pages
...these w lien others most remote And all ere long shall be remote but Ihese Benevolence. God loves from whole to parts but human soul .Must rise from individual to the whole Self love but serves the virtuous mind lo wake As the small pebble stirs the peaceful lake . The centre... | |
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