 Pride, our error lies; All quit their sphere, and rush into the skies. Pride still is aiming at the blest abodes, Men would be Angels, Angels would be Gods. Aspiring to be Gods, if Angels fell, Aspiring to be Angels, Men rebel: And who but wishes to invert...  Murray's English Reader: Or, Pieces in Prose and Poetry, Selected from the ... - Σελίδα 281των Lindley Murray, Jeremiah Goodrich - 1825 - 302 σελίδεςΠλήρης προβολή - Σχετικά με αυτό το βιβλίο
 | Lindley Murray, Jeremiah Goodrich - 1829 - 318 σελίδες
...into the skies. I'nde still is aiming at the blest abodes ; Men would be angels, angels would be gods. Aspiring to be gods, if angels fell. Aspiring to be...the laws Of ORDER, sins against th' ETERNAL CAUSE. SECTION X. Selfishness reproved. 1. HAS God, thou fool! work'd solely for thy good Thy joy, thy pastime,... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1830 - 500 σελίδες
...the skies. Pride still is aiming at the bless'd abodes. Men would be angels, angels would be gods. the Eternal Cause. 130 V. Ask for what end the heavenly bodies shine, Earth for whose use ? Pride answers,... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1830 - 256 σελίδες
...Pride still is aiming at the blast adodes* ; Men would be angels', angels would be gods\ Aspirin); to be gods', if angels fell', Aspiring to be angels',...wishes to invert the laws Of ORDER', sins against th' ETERNAI. CAUSE\ — POPE. SECTION X. Selfishness reproved. HAS God', thou fool' 1 work'd solely for... | |
 | Jesse Torrey - 1830 - 336 σελίδες
...unjust. 14 In pride, in reas'ning pride, our error lies; All quit their sphere, and rush into the skies. And who but wishes to invert the laws Of order, sins against th' Eternal Cause. 15 Ask for what end the heavenly bodies shine, Earth for whose use ? Pride answers, "'Tis for mine:... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1830 - 244 σελίδες
...would be gods. Aspiring to be gods, if angels fell, Aspiring to be angols, men rebel: And wliorbut wishes to invert the laws Of ORDER, sins against th' ETERNAL CAUSE. POPB. SECTION X. StIJishncss reproved. . HAS God, thou fool ! work'd solely for thy good, Thy joy,... | |
 | Samuel B. EMMONS - 1832 - 168 σελίδες
...into the skies. Pride still is aiming at the blest abodes; Men would be angels, angels would be gods. Aspiring to be gods, if angels fell, Aspiring to be...but wishes to invert the laws Of order, sins against the Eternal Cause, V. Ask for what end the heavenly bodies shine, Earth for whose use? Pride answers,... | |
 | 1833 - 776 σελίδες
...irreversible decree of nature, to which providence placed its seal on the day that America was discovered — And who but wishes to invert the laws Of order, sins against th' Eternal cause.] BRINE, — A CURE FOR CANINE DISTEMPER. MR. EDITOR: Having observed that one of your correspondents... | |
 | Noah Webster - 1833 - 202 σελίδες
...err'd before ?" In the middle of the second foot, the pause may be used, but produces little melody. " And who but wishes to invert the laws Of order, sins against the eternal cause." Harmony is produced by a proportion between the members of the same verse, or between... | |
 | Lyman Cobb - 1834 - 238 σελίδες
...into the skies. Pride still is aiming at the blest abodes ; Men would be angels, angels would be gods. Aspiring to be gods, if angels fell, Aspiring to be...but wishes to invert the laws Of ORDER, sins against the ETERNAL CAUSE. — POPE. LESSON CXXXII. of a Creek Indian in a Council of his Nation, against the... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1835 - 350 σελίδες
...skies. Pride still is aiming at the bless'd abodes ; 125 Men would be angels, angels would be gods. Aspiring to be gods, if angels fell, Aspiring to be angels, men rebel : poetry. The illustrative passage, ' Lo, the poor Indian !' is one of the most celebrated of Pope,... | |
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