 | Johann Georg Hamann - 1842 - 438 Seiten
...St. John Lord Bolingbroke, by Alex. Pope. Epistle II: Know tben thyself, presume not to God to scan, The proper study of Mankind is Man. Plac'd on this...isthmus of a middle state, A Being darkly wise, and ruJely great .... Go, wond'rous creature! mount where Science guides, Go, measure earth, weigh air,... | |
 | John Aikin - 1843 - 826 Seiten
...individu* als, in every state, and every age of life. f I. KNOW then thyself, presume not God to scan, V a brother's eye, His weakness prompt to shade, to...finer movements of the mind, And with the moral beauty Sceptic side, With too much weakness for the Stoic's pride, Ho hangs between ; in doubt to act, or... | |
 | John Aikin - 1843 - 830 Seiten
...age of life. L KNOW then thyself, presume not God to scan, The proper study of mankind is man. Plsc'd the rose : Another side, umbrageous grots and caves...cool recess, o'er which the mantling vine Lays fo Sceptic side, With too much weakness for the Stoic's pride, He hangs between ; in doubt to act, or... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1843 - 50 Seiten
...263, &c. 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 wise, and richly great : With too much knowledge for the sceptic side, 5 With to much weakness for the Stoic's... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1844 - 94 Seiten
...263, &c. f 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...and rudely 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... | |
 | 1844 - 398 Seiten
...designed. Man alone they saw restless and unsatisfied : — " Placed on this isthmus of a middle Elate, A being darkly wise and rudely great ; With too much knowledge for the seeptic's side. With too much weakness for the stoic's pride, He hangs between in doubt to act or rest,... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1846 - 328 Seiten
...EPISTLE 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 wise, and rudely groat : With too much knowledge for the sceptic side, With too much weakness for the Stoic's pride,... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1847 - 524 Seiten
...Society, Ver. 251. And to Individuals, Ver. 263. In every state, and every age of life, Ver. 273, &c. EPISTLE II. I. KNOW then thyself, presume not God...middle state, A Being darkly wise, and rudely great : COMMENTARY. Ver. 2. The proper study, $c.] The Poet having shown, in the first epistle, that the... | |
 | Samuel Shuckford - 1848 - 564 Seiten
...scale of life and sense, 'tis plain, There must be, somewhere, such a rank as man. — Plac'd on the isthmus of a middle state, A being darkly wise and rudely great'. There must be somewhere, in the ascents up from sense to the heights of reason, a rank of creatures... | |
 | Alexander Pope, William Charles Macready - 1849 - 646 Seiten
...of life. 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...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... | |
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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: With too much knowledge for the Sceptic side, With too much weakness for the Stoic's pride,... 
