 | 1847 - 782 pages
..." Glory to God in the highest" will accrue from it in some way, we have no doubt. " If plagues and earthquakes break not Heaven's design, Why then a Borgia or a Catiline V At the feeble malice of those who thus take counsel against the Lord and against his Anointed, he... | |
 | 1847 - 776 pages
...Glory to God in the highest" will accrue from it in some way, we have no doubt. ' " If plagues and earthquakes break not Heaven's design, Why then a Borgia or a Catiline 1" At the feeble malice of those who thus take counsel against the Lord and against his Anointed, he... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1847 - 524 pages
...other, and with his own avowed opinion ;" as a proof of which, he instances the lines, " If plagues and earthquakes break not heaven's design, Why then a Borgia or a Catiline?" Essay on Man, Ep. i. ver. 155. " This," says he, " approaches very nearly to the optimism of Leibnitz,... | |
 | English poetry - 1848 - 468 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... | |
 | Alexander Pope, William Charles Macready - 1849 - 646 pages
...Man's desires ; As much eternal springs and cloudless skies, As Man 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... | |
 | William Chauncey Fowler - 1851 - 1502 pages
...for a proper name ; or an office, or profession, or science instead of the true name of a person. 1. If plagues or earthquakes break not Heaven's design, Why then a Borgia or a Catiline ? — Poi'K. 2. Galileo, the Columbia of the heavens. 3. The Niobe of nations, there she stands, Childless... | |
 | 1852 - 874 pages
...man's desires; As much eternal springs and cloudless skies. As men for ever temperate, calm, and wise. = * = * ; Who knows, but he whose hand the lightning forms, Who heaves old Ocean, and who wings the storms;... | |
 | 1852 - 394 pages
...man's desires ? As much eternal spring and cloudless skies, As men forever temperate, calm, and wise. If plagues or earthquakes break not Heaven's design, Why then a Borgia, or a Cataline ? Who knows, but he whose hand the lightning forms, Who heaves old ocean, and who wings the... | |
 | Cornelius Tacitus - 1854 - 524 pages
...csetera forte accidentia." — Seneca, De Const. Sap. c. 9. Pope has said, in the same spirit, — " If plagues or earthquakes break not Heaven's design, Why then a Borgia or a Catiline ?" .faults. But even these are not unvaried ; but are compensated by the occasional display of better... | |
 | David Hume - 1854 - 586 pages
...the vices and imperfections of men arc also comprehended in the order of the universe. If plagues and earthquakes break not heaven's design, Why then a BORGIA or a CATILINE ? Let this be allowed, and my own vices will also be a part of the same order. * PLUT. Dc Jra cohibcnda.... | |
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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... 
