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" Gods partial, changeful, passionate, unjust, Whose attributes were rage, revenge, or lust; Such as the souls of cowards might conceive, And, form'd like tyrants, tyrants would believe. "
The Grammatical Instructer; Containing an Exposition of All the Essential ... - Seite 149
von Samuel B. Emmons - 1832 - 160 Seiten
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The Collected Works of William Hazlitt: Fugitive writings

William Hazlitt - 1904 - 538 Seiten
...and Pope long after summed up the merits of the whole mythologic tribe in a handsome distich — ' Gods partial, changeful, passionate, unjust, Whose attributes were rage, revenge, or lust.' It was thought a bold stride to divert the course of our imaginations, the overflowings of our enthusiasm,...
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The Meaning of Rationalism: And Other Essays

Charles Watts - 1905 - 224 Seiten
...burning 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:...Such as the souls of cowards might conceive, And, formed like tyrants, tyrants would believe. Zeal, then, not charity, became the guide, And hell was...
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The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope

Alexander Pope - 1907 - 568 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...Such as the souls of cowards might conceive, And, forin'd like tyrants, tyrants would believe. 260 Zeal then, not charity, became the guide; And hell...
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English Poetry..: With Introduction, Notes and Illustrations, Band 40

1910 - 508 Seiten
...bursting skies, Saw gods descend, and fiends infernal rise: Here fix'd the dreadful, there the blest abodes; Fear made her devils, and weak hope her gods;...became the guide; And hell was built on spite, and heav'n on pride. Then sacred seem'd th' etherial vault no more; Altars grew marble then, and reek'd...
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A Disciple of Chance: An Eighteenth Century Love Story

Sara Dean - 1910 - 428 Seiten
...the world might see. After that, for the rest of the night he slept quietly. CHAPTER XVII THE COUP Zeal, then, not charity became the guide; And Hell was built on spite, and Heaven on pride. — ALEXANDER POPE. A CHAISE was being driven toward Oxholme Castle; it was a claret-coloured, prosperous-looking...
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The Expositor's Dictionary of Poetical Quotations

James Moffatt - 1913 - 252 Seiten
...vi. 7. Shall I give my first-bom for my transgression, the fruit of my body for the sin of my soul? " Gods partial, changeful, passionate, unjust, Whose...was built on spite, and heaven on pride. Then sacred seem'd the ethereal vault no more ; Altars grew marble then, and reek'd with gore : Then first the...
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Yale Studies in English, Band 58

Caroline Mabel Goad - 1918 - 662 Seiten
...there is no likeness to anv lines of Horace in the passage in which it occurs. I (2. 421) 3. 257-258. Gods partial, changeful, passionate, unjust, Whose attributes were rage, revenge, or lust. Elwin cites Addison's translation of Horace's Ode 3. 3. 19-20. An umpire, partial, and unjust, And...
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Horace in the English Literature of the Eighteenth Century

Caroline Mabel Goad - 1918 - 654 Seiten
...but there is no likeness to any lines of Horace in the passage in which it occurs. (2.421) 3.257-258. Gods partial, changeful, passionate, unjust, Whose attributes were rage, revenge, or lust. Elwin cites Addison's translation of Horace's Ode 8. 3. 19-20. An umpire, partial, and unjust, And...
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The Great Tradition: A Book of Selections from English and American Prose ...

Edwin Greenlaw, James Holly Hanford - 1919 - 712 Seiten
...bursting skies, Saw Gods descend, and Fiends infernal rise: Here fix'd the dreadful, there the bless'd ooner broke through the cloud but many of them fell...the end of the arches that were entire. "There were formed like tyrants, tyrants would believe. Zeal then, not Charity, became the guide, And Hell was...
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The Complete Works of Brann, the Iconoclast ...

William Cowper Brann - 1919 - 334 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....
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