 | Alexander Pope - 1851 - عدد الصفحات: 328
...every age of life. 1 . KNOW then thyself, presume not God to scan ; The proper study of mankind is man. Plac'd on this isthmus of a middle state, A being darkly wise and rudely great ; C With too much knowledge for the sceptic side, With too much weakness for the stoic's pride, He... | |
 | George Frederick Graham - 1852 - عدد الصفحات: 570
...KPISTLE II. I. Know then thyself, presume not God to scan ; The proper study of mankind is man. Placed on this isthmus of a middle state, A being darkly...great : With too much knowledge for the sceptic side, 5 With too much weakness for the Stoic's1 pride, He hangs between ; in doubt to act or rest ; In doubt... | |
 | John Lord - 1852 - عدد الصفحات: 360
...Paschal and judson represent him : "Placed on this isthmus of a middle state, A being darkly Wise but rudely great, With too much knowledge for the sceptic side With too much weakness for the stoic s pride, He hangs between in doubt to act or iest, In doubt to deem himself a God or beast ;... | |
 | 1852 - عدد الصفحات: 710
...raison et devenir betes brutes." The same idea recurs in Pope again, speaking of man generally: — " He hangs between, in doubt to act or rest — In doubt to deem himself a yod or beast." The Second Epistle opens with the famous line : " The proper study of mankind is man;"... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1853 - عدد الصفحات: 342
...273, &c. T7~NOW then thyself, presume not God to scan, " The proper study of mankind is man.1 Placed on this isthmus of a middle state, A being darkly...great : With too much knowledge for the sceptic side, 5 With too much weakness for the stoic's pride, He hangs between ; in doubt to act, or rest ; In doubt... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1853 - عدد الصفحات: 336
...his curiosa felicitas as well as Pope. The poet tells us in a beautiful couplet that man is " Placed on this isthmus of a middle state, A being darkly wise and rudely great." St. John moralizes in a like strain. " This is the condition of humanity we are placed, as it were,... | |
 | Fisher Ames - 1854 - عدد الصفحات: 464
...his four years' political journey in this seemingly equivocal manner as a president, Placed on the isthmus of a middle state, A being darkly wise and rudely great. But if this would do for him it would not answer for his party; they will expect much and attempt every... | |
 | mrs. Henry H B. Paull - 1855 - عدد الصفحات: 70
...deformity can be distinguished. Bocter's Ffsfon. CHAPTER VII. A being darkly wise and rudely great. ***** He hangs between, in doubt to act or rest, In doubt to deem himself a god or beast : In doubt hie mind or body to prefer, Born but to die, and reasoning but to err. POPE. THE tower to which we... | |
 | Sarah Josepha Buell Hale - 1855 - عدد الصفحات: 610
...Essay on Man. Know then thyself, presume not God to sean : The proper study of mankind is man. Plae'd on this isthmus of a middle state, A being darkly wise and rudely great, With too mueh knowledge for the seeptie's side, With too mueh weakness for the stoie's pride, He hangs between,... | |
 | Geoffrey Chaucer - 1856 - عدد الصفحات: 134
...EPISTLE SECOND. KNOW then thyself, presume not God to scan ; The proper study of mankind is Man. Flac'd on this isthmus of a middle state, A being darkly...and rudely great ; "With too much knowledge for the sceptic's side, With too much weakness for the stoic's pride, He haiig.s between ; in doubt to act... | |
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Placed on this isthmus of a middle state, A being darkly wise, and rudely great ; With too much knowledge for the sceptic side, With too much weakness for the stoic's pride, He hangs between ; in doubt to act or rest ; In doubt to deem himself a god,... 
