 | Richard Gardiner - 1782 - 280 pages
...which extends from the center, felf-tove, in circles to univerfallity, fo finely defcribed by Pope : Friend, parent, neighbour, firft it will embrace, His country next, and next all human race. As every poifon carries with it an antidote, .fo may the people remedy that very evil, once in Jeven... | |
 | William Enfield - 1785 - 460 pages
...pebble ftirs the peaceful lake ; The centre mov'd, a circle ftrait fucceeds, Another ftill, and ftill another fpreads ; Friend, parent, neighbour, firft...o'erflowings of the mind Take ev'ry creature in of ev'ry kind ; Earth fmiles around, with boundlefs bounty bleft, And Heav'n beholds its image in his breaft. POPE.... | |
 | 1787 - 430 pages
...pebble ftirs the peaceful lake ; The centre mov'd, a circle ftrait fucceeds, Another ftill, and ftill another fpreads ; Friend, parent, neighbour, firft...will embrace, His country next, and next all human jra.ce. Wide and more wide, th' o'erflowings of the mind Take every creature in of every kind. Earth... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1787 - 396 pages
...centre mov'd, a circle ftrait fucceeds, 365 Another ftill, and ftill another fpreads ; Friend, partfnt, neighbour, firft it will embrace ; His country next ; and next all human race; fMfftfm j.»o)Miv ntfifta. In the fame manner Euripides fpeaks i" his Hercules furens : nin.tn «it*,... | |
 | English poets - 1790 - 398 pages
...ftirs the peaceful lake ; The The centre mov'd, a circle ftrait fucceeds, 365 Another flill, and ftill another fpreads; Friend, parent, neighbour, firft...next; and next all human race; Wide and more wide, th' o'erfiowings of the mind Take every creature in, of every kind; 370 Earth fmiles around, with boundlcfs... | |
 | Vicesimus Knox - 1791 - 966 pages
...peaceful lake ; The center mov'd, a circle ftraight fuccceds, Another ftill, and ftill another fprcads; Friend, parent, neighbour, firft it will embrace ;...next ; and next all human race : Wide and more wide, th'o'crflowings of the mind Take ev'ry creature in, of ev'ry kind ; Earth (miles around, with boundlefs... | |
 | Henry St. John Bolingbroke (Viscount) - 1791 - 326 pages
...pebble ftirs the peaceful lake. The centre mov't! , a circle ftrait fucceeds ; Another ftill. and ftill another fpreads: Friend, parent, neighbour, firft...will embrace, His country next, and next all human lace. So fings our friend POPE, my lord, and fo I believe. So I fhall prove too, if I miftake not,... | |
 | James Roach - 1793 - 274 pages
...circle flraight fucceeds, Another fl.ll, and flill another fpreads ; Friend, parent, neighbour, firll it will embrace ; His country next ; and next all...; 'Wide and more wide th' o'erflowings of the mind Takeev'ry creature in, ofev'ry kind ; Earth fmiles around, with boundlefs bounty blefl, And heav'n... | |
 | Henry St. John Bolingbroke (Viscount) - 1793 - 570 pages
...pebble ftirs the peaceful lake. The centre mov'd, a circle ftrait fucceeds ; Another ftill, and ftill another fpreads : Friend, parent, neighbour, firft...embrace, His country next, and next all human race. • So fings our friend Pope, my lord, and fo I believe. So I fhall prove too, if I miftake not, in... | |
 | Addison (pseud.) - 1794 - 564 pages
...the peaceful lake; The ( 27 ) The centre mov'd, a circle ftrait fucceeds, Another ftill, and ftill another fpreads; Friend, parent, neighbour, firft...of the mind Take ev'ry creature in, of ev'ry kind; Earth fmiles around, with boundlefs bounty bleft, And Heav'n beholds its image in hia breaft. DISCONTENT.... | |
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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 another spreads; Friend, parent, neighbour, first... 
