 | John Aikin - English poetry - 1843 - 826 pages
...'s unjust ; If man alone engross not Heaven's high care. Alone made perfect here, immortal there : blest abodes, Men would be angels, angels would be gods. Aspiring to be gods, if angels fell, Aspiring... | |
 | John Aikin - English poetry - 1843 - 830 pages
...'s unjust ; lf man alone engross not Heaven's high care, Alone made perfect here, immortal there : glouting hound refuse his wonted meal, blest abodes, Men would be angels, angels would be gods. Aspiring to be gods, if angels fell, Aspiring... | |
 | Alexander Pope - English language - 1843 - 50 pages
...Alone made perfect here, immortal there ; 120 Snatch from his hand the balance and the rod, Hejudge his justice, be the GOD of God. In pride, in reasoning pride, our error lies ; All quit the sphere, and rush into the skies. Pride still is aiming at the blest abodes, 125 /(ofii •PARTAAENT... | |
 | James Robert Boyd - English language - 1844 - 372 pages
...imperfection what thou fanciest such ; Say here he gives too little, there too much. In pride, in reas'ning pride, our error lies ; All quit their sphere, and...abodes ; Men would be angels, angels would be gods. Aspirine to be gods, if angels fell, •AsPirin| to be angels, men rebel : •And vvK>, but wishes... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1844 - 94 pages
...unjus! : If inan alone engross not heaven's high care, Alone made perfect here, immortal there ; 120 Snatch from his hand the balance and the rod, Re-judge...pride, in reasoning pride, our error lies ; All quit the sphere, and rush into the skies. Pride still is aiming at the blest abodes, 135 Men would be angels,... | |
 | Mary Milner - 1844 - 788 pages
...questioned whether their discussion from the pulpit do always tend to the edification of the hearers. To " Snatch from His hand the balance and the rod, Re-judge His justice — be the god of God," 111 becomes such a creature as man ; and a preacher, whatever may be his talents, should consider whether... | |
 | George Campbell - English language - 1845 - 444 pages
...differently. Such an antithesis on the words men, angels, and gods you have in the two following couplets: " Pride still is aiming at the bless'd abodes ; MEN...be GODS, || if ANGELS fell ; Aspiring to be ANGELS, 1! HEN rebd,"f The like varied opposition in the words principles, means, and ends may be observed... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1847 - 524 pages
...only is perfect, and hath immortality : to which sense the lines immediately following confine us : " Snatch from his hand the balance and the rod, Re-judge his justice, be the God of God." NOTES. Ver. 110. He asks no angefs wing, no seraph's fire;] The French translator, M. 1'Abbe Du Resnel,... | |
 | David Bates Tower - 1853 - 444 pages
...If man alone engross not Heaven's high care, Alone in.rle perfect here, immortal there; Snatch fr«m his hand the balance and the rod, Rejudge his justice,...rush into the skies. Pride still is aiming at the blest abodes; Men would be angels, angels would be God?. Aspiring to be Gods, if angels fell, Aspiring... | |
 | John [prose] Milton - 1848 - 590 pages
...can surpass. In the same spirit, but with far less vigour, Pope exclaims to the proud reasoner — " Snatch from His hand the balance and the rod, Rejudge his justice, be the god of God ! " (Essay on Man. Book IT 121, teq.) — ED. from their enemies the Gauls; Manlius for sedition afterward... | |
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In pride, in reasoning 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. 
