| 1871 - 848 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 - 1871 - 544 pages
...desires : As much eternal springs and cloudless skies, As men for ever temp'rate, calm, and wise.1 If plagues or earthquakes break not heaven's design, Why then a Borgia or a Catiline ?* Who knows hut He, whose hand the lightning forms, Who heaves old ocean, and who wings the storms... | |
| James Anthony Froude, John Tulloch - 1871 - 866 pages
...man's deeires, 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 - 1889 - 574 pages
...own plans. Yet how specious seems the argument when advanced in such a couplet as " If plagues and earthquakes break not heaven's design, Why then a Borgia or a Catiline t " No one ever, perhaps, seriously believed that men learnt the arts of life by imitating animals,... | |
| 1872 - 660 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 - 1872 - 744 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 lie, whose hand the lightning forms, Who heaves old Ocean, and who wings the storms,... | |
| William Chauncey Fowler - 1873 - 814 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 f — POPE. 3. Galileo, the Columbus of the heavens. 3. The Niobe of nations, there she stands, Childless... | |
| Thomas Arnold - 1873 - 590 pages
...orthodox.' But what sense but one is it possible to attach to such passages as the following ? — If plagues or earthquakes break not Heaven's design. Why then a Borgia or a Catiline ? Who knows, but He, whoso baud the lightning forms, Who hpaves old Ocean, and who wings the storms,... | |
| Dawn - 1874 - 340 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, Pours... | |
| Edwin David Sanborn - 1875 - 436 pages
...in power ? " The philosophic poet answers the question by another equally puzzling: "If storms and earthquakes break not heaven's design, Why then a Borgia or a Catiline ?" The Indians had, for some time previous to the English Revolution, shown signs of hostility. Some... | |
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