 | Alexander Pope - 1893 - 566 Seiten
...skies, Saw Gods descend, and fiends infernal rise: Here fix'd the dreadful, there the blest abodes; 255 .Fear made her Devils, and weak Hope her Gods; Gods...conceive, And, form'd like tyrants, tyrants would believe. s6o Zeal then, not charity, became the guide; And hell was built on spite, and heav'n on pride, Then... | |
 | Alexander Pope, Sir Adolphus William Ward - 1893 - 588 Seiten
...skies, Saw Gods descend, and fiends infernal rise: Here fix'd the dreadful, there the blest abodes; 255 Fear made her Devils, and weak Hope her Gods; Gods...conceive, And, form'd like tyrants, tyrants would believe. 260 Zeal then, not charity, became the guide; And hell was built on spite, and heav'n on pride, Then... | |
 | Henry Coppée - 1894 - 544 Seiten
...was by a natural revulsion of the human mind that he turned from such gods as those of paganism — Gods partial, changeful, passionate, unjust, Whose attributes were rage, revenge or lust. As a didactic poet and reasoner in verse there is no writer, with the exception of Pope, who can be... | |
 | Charles Mackay - 1896 - 680 Seiten
...banting skies. Saw Gods descend, and fiends infenul rise: Here fixed the dreadful, there the blest abodes ; Fear made her Devils, and weak Hope her Gods...changeful, passionate, unjust, Whose attributes were Rage, P.eveDgc, oe Lust ; Such as the souls of cowards might COBceive, And, formed like tyrants, tyrants... | |
 | Charles Mackay - 1897 - 666 Seiten
...earth and bursting skies, Saw Gods descend, and fiends infemal Here fixed the dreadful, there the blest abodes; Fear made her Devils, and weak Hope her Gods;...Such as the souls of cowards might conceive, And, formed like tyrants, tyrant! would believe. Zeal, then, not Charity, became the guide; And Hell was... | |
 | Philip Hugh Dalbiac - 1897 - 526 Seiten
...is like to be, doth show ; We may our ends by our beginnings know." DENHAM. On Prudence, line 225. " Zeal then, not charity, became the guide, And hell was built on spite, and heav'n on pride." POPE. Essay on Man, Ep. III., line 261. " Zed I thou unnecessary letter ! " SHAKESPEARE.... | |
 | Leslie Stephen - 1898 - 234 Seiten
...Saw gods descend and fiends infernal rise; There fix'd the dreadful, there the blest abodes ; l''ear made her devils, and weak hope her gods ; Gods partial,...Such as the souls of cowards might conceive, And, framed like tyrants, tyrants would believe." If the test of poetry were the power of expressing a theory... | |
 | William Cowper Brann - 1898 - 478 Seiten
...Whose attributes were rage, revenge and lust ; Such as the souls of cowards might conceive, And, formed like tyrants, tyrants would believe. Zeal then, not...And hell was built on spite, and heaven on pride." — Pope. Kind reader, have a care! For aught I know this article may be the rankest blasphemy, and... | |
 | J.D. Shaw - 1898 - 474 Seiten
...bursting skies. Saw gods descend and fiends infernal rise; Here fixed the dreadful, there the blest abodes; Fear made her devils and weak hope her gods;...passionate, unjust, Whose attributes were rage, revenge and lust; Such as the souls of cowards might conceive, And, formed like tyrants, tyrants would believe.... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1898 - 120 Seiten
...bursting skies, Saw gods descend, and fiends infernal rise: Here fixed the dreadful, there the blessed abodes: Fear made her devils, and weak hope her gods; Gods partial, changeful, passionate, unjust, . 255 Whose attributes were rage, revenge, or lust; Such as the souls of cowards might conceive, And,... | |
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