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" Who knows but He whose hand the lightning forms, Who heaves old ocean, and who wings the storms, Pours fierce ambition in a Caesar's mind... "
Biographical and Critical Essays: Reprinted from Reviews - Page 235
by Abraham Hayward - 1874 - 411 pages
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The British anthology; or, Poetical library, Volumes 3-4

British anthology - 1825 - 460 pages
...man's desires ; As much eternal springs and cloudless skies, As men for ever temperate, calm, and wise. If plagues or earthquakes break not Heaven's design , Why then a Borgia or a Catiline ? Who knows but He, whose hand the lightning forms, Who heaves old Ocean, and who wings the storms,...
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Select Poets of Great Britain: To which are Prefixed, Criticial Notices of ...

William Hazlitt - 1825 - 600 pages
...desires ; (Ys mueh eternal springs and eloudless skies, As man for ever temperate, ealm, and wise. M N O U V W ] ^ _ Who knows, but he whose hand the lightning forms, Who heaves old oeean, and who wings the storms. Pours...
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The Poetical Works of Alex. Pope: With a Sketch of the Author's Life

Alexander Pope - 1825 - 536 pages
...man's desiree ; As much eternal springe and cloudless skies, As men for ever temperate, calm, and wise. If plagues or earthquakes break not Heaven's design, Why then a Borgia, or a Catiline 1 Who knows, but he whose hand the lightning forms. Who heaves old Ocean, and who wings the storms;...
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Tremaine: Or, The Man of Refinement, Volume 3

Robert Plumer Ward - 1825 - 396 pages
...Pope, now indeed grown trite, but which still emphatically express what I mean : — * If plagues and earthquakes break not Heaven's design, Why then a Borgia or a Catiline ?' " In one sense, virtually, all may be said to be the work of the Deity, because he originally created...
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Tremaine: Or, The Man of Refinement, Volume 3

Robert Plumer Ward - 1825 - 398 pages
...Pope, now indeed grown trite, but which still emphatically express what I mean i — ' If plagues and earthquakes break not Heaven's design, Why then a Borgia or a Catiline ?' " In one sense, virtually, all may be said to be the work of the Deity, because he originally created...
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The Book of Nature, Volume 1

John Mason Good - 1826 - 536 pages
...evil, and made to flow from it, and, consequently, that whatever is, is right : — If plagues and earthquakes break not heaven's design, Why then a Borgia or a Catiline? The THIRD HYPOTHESIS to which I have referred, is that of the idealists, or those who maintain that...
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History of Roman Literature from Its Earliest Period to the Augustan Age ...

John Colin Dunlop - 1827 - 368 pages
...Nature is, and God the soul ;" — and for an apparent justification of crime, — " If plagues and earthquakes break not Heaven's design, Why, then, a Borgia or a Catiline. * * * * In spite of pride, in erring reason's spite, One truth is clear, — Whatever is, is right."...
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The Works of Dugald Stewart: The philosophy of the active and moral powers ...

Dugald Stewart - 1829 - 654 pages
...who has fallen into various unguarded expressions that appear favorable to fatalism. " If plagues and earthquakes break not Heaven's design, Why then a Borgia or a Catiline ? " &.c. &c. &.c. With respect to these unguarded expressions, there is an anecdote mentioned by Dr....
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Southern Review, Volume 4

1829 - 550 pages
...complicated harmony, while all its ceaseless vicissitudes eventuate in order and uniformity. If plagues and earthquakes break not heaven's design, Why then a Borgia or a Catiline ? Our test of excellence in politics, is the same as Paley's in morals — utility in the long run....
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The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope, Esq: To which is Prefixed the Life of ...

Alexander Pope - 1830 - 500 pages
...man's desires ? As much eternal springs and cloudless skies, As men for ever temperate, calm, and wise. ard ? Who knows, but he whose hand the lightning forms, Who heaves old Ocean, and who wings the storms....
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