 Man, but for that, no action could attend, And, but for this, were active to no end: Fix'd like a plant on his peculiar spot, To draw nutrition, propagate, and rot: Or, meteor-like, flame lawless through the void, Destroying others, by himself destroy'd.  An essay on man [by A. Pope]. With some humourous verses on the death of ... - الصفحة 10بواسطة Alexander Pope - 1736 - عدد الصفحات: 32عرض كامل - لمحة عن هذا الكتاب
 | Alexander Pope - 1824 - عدد الصفحات: 422
...motion, acts the soul ; Reason's comparing balance rules the whole. 60 Man, but for that, no action could attend, And, but for this, were active to no...peculiar spot, To draw nutrition, propagate, and rot ; COMMENTARY. Ver. 53. Two Principles, fyc.] The Poet having shewn the difficulty which attends the... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1824 - عدد الصفحات: 424
...motion, acts the soul ; Reason's comparing balance rules the whole. 60 Man, but for that, no action could attend, And, but for this, were active to no...peculiar spot, To draw nutrition, propagate, and rot ; COMMENTARY. Ver. 53. Two Principles, #c.] The Poet having shewn the difficulty which attends the... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1824 - عدد الصفحات: 84
...Reason's comparing balance rules the whole. 30 Man. out for that, no action could attend, And, out tor this, were active to no end ; Fix'd like a plant on...nutrition, propagate and rot ; Or. meteor-like, flame lawless through the void, 65 Destroying oilier^, tv himself destroy'd. Most strength tne moving prmciple... | |
 | Charles M. Ingersoll - 1825 - عدد الصفحات: 298
...of motion, acts the soul ; Reason's comparing balance rules the whole. Man but for* that, no action could attend, And, but for this, were active to no...nutrition, propagate, and rot : Or, meteor-like, flame lawless thro' the void. Destroying others, by himself destroy'd. Most strength the moving principle... | |
 | British anthology - 1825 - عدد الصفحات: 460
...of motion, acts the soul ; Reason's comparing balance rules the whole. Man, but for that, no action could attend, And but for this, were active to no end : Fix'd, like a plaut, on his peculiar spot, To draw nutrition, propagate, and rot; Or, meteor-like, flame lawless... | |
 | John Aikin - 1826 - عدد الصفحات: 840
...comparing balance rules the whole Man, but for that, no action could attend, And but for this, wore active to no end : Fix'd like a plant on his peculiar...spot ; To draw nutrition, propagate, and rot. Or, meteor-likr, flame lawless through the void. Destroying others, by himself destroy'd. Most strength... | |
 | Thomas Curtis - 1829 - عدد الصفحات: 824
...great animal, and to have nurtured up her young offspring with a conscious tenderness. Bentlri . Fixed like a plant on his peculiar spot, To draw nutrition, propagate and rot. Faff. Does not the body thrive and grow, By food of twenty years ago? And is not virtue in mankind,... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1830 - عدد الصفحات: 500
...motion, acts the soul ; Reason's comparing balance rules the whole. 60 Man, but for that, no action gods revere, The poor and stranger are their constant...He wanders with them, and he feels their wrongs. F lawless through the void, Destroying others, by himself destroy'd. Most etrengih the moving principle... | |
 | Jesse Torrey - 1830 - عدد الصفحات: 336
...of motion, acts the soul; Reason's comparing balance rules the whole. Man, but for that, no action could attend, And, but for this, were active to no...nutrition, propagate and rot; Or, meteor-like, flame lawless through the void, Destroying others, by himself destroy'd. 5 Most strength the moving principle... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1832 - عدد الصفحات: 86
...whole. GO Man, but for that, no action could attend, And, but for this, were active to no end ; Kix'd like a plant on his peculiar spot, To draw nutrition, propagate and rot ; Or, meteor-like, flame lawless through the void, 65 Destroying others, by himself destroy'd. Most strength the moving principle... | |
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