 In Pride, in reas'ning 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:...  Elegant poems. Pope's Essay on man, Blair's Grave, Gray's Elegy, Goldsmith's ... - الصفحة 14بواسطة Elegant poems - 1814عرض كامل - لمحة عن هذا الكتاب
 | Arthur O. Lovejoy - 1936 - عدد الصفحات: 404
...it is an attempt " to counterwork the Universal Cause," to disturb the very system of the universe. In pride, in reas'ning pride, our error lies; All...skies. Pride still is aiming at the blest abodes, Men would be angels, angels would be gods. Man should, accordingly, eschew all the vaster enterprises... | |
 | Alexander Hamilton - 1977 - عدد الصفحات: 678
...Friend (London: Printed for J. Wilford, 1733-34), Epistle I, lines 123-29. The entire quotation reads: "In pride, in reas'ning pride, our error lies; All...rush into the skies! Pride still is aiming at the bless'd abodes, Men would be angels, angels would be gods. Aspiring to be gods if angels fell, Aspiring... | |
 | Alexander Hamilton - 1961 - عدد الصفحات: 952
...is dated "April 12, 1804." 3. Letter not found. 4. Letter not found. 5. The exact quotation reads: "In pride, in reas'ning pride, our error lies; All quit their sphere, and rush into the skies! Pride is still aiming at the bless'd abodes. Men would be angels, angels would be gods" (Alexander Pope,... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1977 - عدد الصفحات: 772
...recalling a reproach from one of his favourite poets: 'In Pride, in reas'ning Pride, our error l1es; / All quit their Sphere, and rush into the skies. / Pride still is aiming at the blest abodes, . . .' Pope, An Essay on Man, ed. Maynard Mack (1950), I 123-8. 2, 7 widens } broadens ] slackens 5... | |
 | Edith P. Hazen - 1992 - عدد الصفحات: 1172
...Hope springs eternal in the human breast: Man never Is, but always To be blest: (Fr. Epistle I) 66 ee me thr Men would be Angels, Angels would be Gods. (Fr. Epistle I) 67 From pride, from pride, our very reas'ning... | |
 | Ed Jewinski, Andrew Stubbs - 1992 - عدد الصفحات: 180
...God's unjust; 1f Man alone ingross not Heav'n's high care, Alone made perfect here, immonal there: Snatch from his hand the balance and the rod, Re-judge his justice, be the God of God! (Pope, "An Essay on Man", Epistle 1, 113-122) "Capisco! 1 know my fate. Now for the firsi time 1 feel... | |
 | Daniel J. Boorstin - 1996 - عدد الصفحات: 289
...century was sometimes called the sin of pride. As Pope had written in his "Essay on Man": In pride, iii reas'ning pride, our error lies; All quit their sphere, and rush into the skies. . . . The bliss of man (could pride that blessing find) Is not to act or think beyond mankind.'6 Man... | |
 | Thomas P. Saine - 1997 - عدد الصفحات: 388
...sin, because it is a sin against the entire universe. As Alexander Pope put it in his Essay on Man: In Pride, in reas'ning Pride, our error lies; All...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,... | |
 | Nancy Dean - 2000 - عدد الصفحات: 164
...- to create the tone. Share your paragraph with the class. Apply: Consider: In Pride, in reasoning Pride, our error lies; All quit their sphere, and rush into the skies. Pride still is aiming at the best abodes, Men would be Angels, Angels would be Gods. Aspiring to be Gods, if Angels fell, Aspiring... | |
 | J. McLaverty - 2001 - عدد الصفحات: 286
...eighteenth-century commonplaces, are expressed in similar terms. Pope condemns the human propensity to Snaich from his hand the Balance and the Rod, Re-judge his Justice, Be the GOO of GOO! ( t . rai-ai Harte shows that in Eden No earth-horn Pride had snaich 'd th' Almighty's... | |
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