 | William Cowper - 1836 - 402 pages
...lives 200 Be strangers to etlch other"? Pierce my vein, Take of the crimson stream meandering there 9 Go, teach eternal Wisdom how to rule, Then drop into thyself, and be a fool. Pope. Essay on Man, ii. 29. 10 Nor vainly buys what Gildon sells, Poetic buckets for dry wells. Spleen.... | |
 | Charles Bucke - 1837 - 422 pages
...wond'rous creature ! mount where Science guides ; Go, measure earth, weigh air, and state the tides; Go, teach Eternal Wisdom how to rule ; Then drop into thyself, and be—a fool * ! Nume non v. e ? de' tiumi i puri argenti, L' aer che spiri, il suolo ove risiedi, Le... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1839 - 510 pages
...empyreal sphere, To the first good, first perfect, and first fair ; Or tread the mazy round his followers trod, And quitting sense call imitating God ; As Eastern...late they saw A mortal man unfold all nature's law, Admired such wisdom in an earthly shape, And show'da NEWTON as we show an ape. But when his own great... | |
 | Martyn Paine - 1840 - 830 pages
...and is allied to that Great First Cause who established the laws upon which the particulars depend. u Superior beings, when of late they saw A mortal man unfold all nature's law, Admired such wisdom in an earthly shape, Aod show'da Newton as wo show an ape." — Pope. Pascal created... | |
 | Johann Georg Hamann - 1842 - 438 pages
...Sun; Go, soar with Plato to th' empyreal sphere, To the first good, first perfect, and first fair .... Go, teach Eternal Wisdom how to rule — Then drop...late they saw A mortal Man unfold all Nature's law, Admired such wisdom in an eartbly shape, And sbew'da Newton as we shew an Ape. Я3з1. IV, 14. @.91.... | |
 | Alan J. Friedman, Carol C. Donley - 1989 - 244 pages
...air, and state the tides; Instruct the planets in what orbs to run, Correct old Time, and regulate the Sun . . . Go, teach Eternal Wisdom how to rule Then drop into thyself, and be a fool!15 Pope's satire belongs to the Age of Reason, and it was a rational protest against unbalanced... | |
 | Charles Darwin - 1993 - 836 pages
...Letter of CL to Darwin'. It is printed in Wilson ed. 1970, pp. 382-3. 2 Pope 1733 4, Epistle II: 31-4: Superior Beings, when of late they saw A mortal Man unfold all Nature's Law, Adinir'd such Wisdom in an earthy Shape, And show'da Newton as we show an Ape See letter to Charles... | |
 | Stephen Jay Gould - 1985 - 484 pages
...from his Essay on Man (while praising Isaac Newton as a paragon of earthly wisdom at the same time): Superior beings, when of late they saw, A mortal man unfold all nature's law, Admired such wisdom in an earthly shape And show'da Newton as we show an ape. Pope only indulged in... | |
 | Detmar Doering - 1990 - 330 pages
...dieser Aufgabe sehr bewußt, als er in seinem 1734 erschienenen Essay on Man diese Zeilen schrieb: "Superior beings, when of late they saw A mortal man unfold all nature's law, Admired such wisdom in an earthly shape, And showed a Newton äs we show an ape. Could he, whose rules... | |
 | Otfried Schütz - 1993 - 512 pages
...dieser Aufgabe sehr bewußt, als er in seinem 1734 erschienenen Essay on Man diese Zeilen schrieb: "Superior beings, when of late they saw A mortal man unfold all nature's law, Admired such wisdom in an earthly shape, And showed a Newton äs we show an ape. Could he, whose rules... | |
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And quitting sense call imitating God; As Eastern priests in giddy circles run, And turn their heads to imitate the sun. Go, teach Eternal Wisdom how to rule — Then drop into thyself, and be a fool! 
