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" Created half to rise, and half to fall; Great lord of all things, yet a prey to all; Sole judge of truth, in endless error hurl'd; The glory, jest, and riddle of the world! "
The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope: With His Last Corrections, Additions ... - Page 36
by Alexander Pope - 1804 - 754 pages
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An Essay on Man: In Four Epistles to Henry St. John, Lord Bolingbroke

Alexander Pope - 1844 - 94 pages
...passion, all confused ; Still by himself abused, or disabused; Created half to rise, and half to fall ; 15 Great lord of all things, yet a prey to all ; Sole judge of truth, in endle.se error hurl'd; The glory, jest, and riddle of the world ! Go, wondrous creature ! mount where...
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Dictionary of Poetical Quotations: Consisting of Elegant Extracts ..., Volume 1

1847 - 526 pages
...active flame, The love of glory, or the dread of shame. POPE. 17. Created half to rise, or half to fall, Great lord of all things, yet a prey to all ; Sole...hurl'd, The glory, jest, and riddle of the world. 18. Behold the child, by nature's kindly law, Pleas'd with a rattle, tickled with a straw ; Some livelier...
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A Century of Psychology: Progress, Paradigms, and Prospects for the New ...

Ray Fuller, Patricia Noonan Walsh, Patrick McGinley - 1997 - 354 pages
...passion, all confused; Still by himself abused, or disabused; Created half to rise and half to fall; Great lord of all things, yet a prey to all; Sole judge of truth, in endless error hurled: The glory, jest, and riddle of the world! Alexander Pope (1688-1744) Contents List of figures...
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The Wordsworth Dictionary of Quotations

Connie Robertson - 1998 - 686 pages
...truth is clear. 'Whatever IS, IS RIGHT'. 8898 An Essay on Man Created half to rise, and half to fall; Lu > ^? D1K @ȒVӯ @ eJ! F 峦 j g \Qn O2 !}ԧ d ޙ $o5 ! #Z<Qr hurled; The glory, jest, and riddle of the world! 8899 An Essay on Man Go, teach Eternal Wisdom how...
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Philosophy and the Good Life: Reason and the Passions in Greek, Cartesian ...

John Cottingham - 1998 - 250 pages
...Passion, all confused; Still by himself abus'd or disabus'd; Created half to rise and half to fall; Great lord of all things, yet a prey to all, Sole judge of Truth, in endless Error hurled: The glory, jest and riddle of the world! Alexander Pope1 I . THE FRUITS OF PHILOSOPHY [Philosophia]...
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Dissonante Harmonie: zur kulturanthropologischen Bedeutung symbolischer Formen

Thorsten Paprotny - 1999 - 254 pages
...Passion, all confus'd; Still by himself abus'd, ordisabus'd; Created half to rise, and half to fall; Great lord of all things, yet a prey to all; Sole...hurl'd: The glory, jest, and riddle of the world!" (Alexander Pope, Essay on Man) „Ich glaube der Mensch ist am Ende ein so freies Wesen, daß ihm das...
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Second Simplicity: The Inner Shape of Christianity

Bruno Barnhart - 1999 - 292 pages
...too little or too much; Still by himself abused or disabus'd Created half to rise, and half to fall; Great lord of all things, yet a prey to all; Sole...hurl'd: The glory, jest, and riddle of the world! ' The Pauline expression of this human duality is a moral conflict. So I find it to be a law that when...
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The Politics of Truth and Other Untimely Essays: The Crisis of Civic ...

Ellis Sandoz - 1999 - 253 pages
...Passion all confus'd. Still by himself abus'd, or disabus'd; Created half to rise, and half to fall, Great lord of all things, yet a prey to all; Sole...endless error hurl'd; The glory, jest and riddle of the world.2 Government under such conditions was pronounced (by James Madison in Federalist No. 51) as...
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Social Science Quotations: Who Said What, When, and Where

David L. Sills, Robert King Merton - 2000 - 466 pages
...Passion, all confus'd; Still by himself abus'd, or disabus'd; Created half to rise, and half to fall; Great lord of all things, yet a prey to all; Sole...hurl'd: The glory, jest, and riddle of the world! An Essay on Man (1733) 1950: Epistle 2, 53-56. 2 For Forms of Government let fools contest; Whate'er...
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The Creation of the Modern World: The Untold Story of the British Enlightenment

Roy Porter - 2000 - 776 pages
...Passion, all confus'd; Still by himself abus'd, or disabus'd; Created half to rise, and half to fall; Great lord of all things, yet a prey to all; Sole...Error hurl'd The glory, jest, and riddle of the world! 16 In his exposure of human pretensions, Pope held a fine line. While humbling pride, he was nevertheless...
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