 | William Warburton, Richard Hurd - 1811 - 386 Seiten
...of the great Poet, Gods partial, changeful, passionate, unjust, Whose attributes were rage, revenue, or lust; Such as the souls of cowards might conceive, And, form'd like tyrants, tyrants would believe *. But, 3. The mode of public worship was alone sufficient to betray the Mover of the whole machine.... | |
 | William Warburton, Richard Hurd - 1811 - 446 Seiten
...its objects : Gods partial, changeful, passionate, unjust, Whose attributes were rage, revenge, and lust: Such as the souls of cowards might conceive,..., And, form'd like tyrants, tyrants would believe. The ancient Pagan gods are here very exactly described. This fact is a convincing evidence of the truth... | |
 | William Warburton - 1811 - 444 Seiten
...objects : t , . Gods partial, changeful, passionate, unjust, Whose attributes were rage, revenge, and lust: Such as the souls of cowards might conceive, And, form'd like tyrants, tyrants would believe. The ancient Pagan gods are here very exactly described. This fact is a convincing evidence of the truth... | |
 | William Warburton - 1811 - 376 Seiten
...great Poet, Gods partial, changeful, passionate, unjust, Whose attributes were rage, revenge, or lost; Such as the souls of cowards might conceive, And, form'd like tyrants, tyrants would believe *. But, 3. The mode of public worship was alone sufficient to betray the Mover of the whole machine.... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1812 - 348 Seiten
...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...unjust, Whose attributes were rage, revenge, or lust ; 12 Such Such as the souls of cowards might conceive, And, form' J like tyrants, tyrants would believe.... | |
 | Elegant poems - 1814 - 132 Seiten
...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 uu spite, and heav'n on pride. Then... | |
 | Specimens - 1814 - 424 Seiten
...sense: and it was by a natural revulsion of the human mind, that from such gods as those of Paganism, Gods partial, changeful, passionate, unjust, Whose attributes were rage, revenge, or lust, Lucretius should have passed to the blank vacuity of a world independent of Deity. It was a clcr.rsighted... | |
 | Sir Charles Abraham Elton - 1814 - 422 Seiten
...sense: and it was by a natural revulsion of the human mind, that from such gods as those of Paganism, Gods partial, changeful, passionate, unjust, Whose attributes were rage, revenge, or lust, Lucretius should have passed to the blank vacuity of a world independent of Deity. It was a clearsighted... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1817 - 118 Seiten
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 | 1819 - 652 Seiten
...weak hope hergW* ; Gods partial, changeful, passionate, unjust, Whose attributes were rage, rer.enge, or lust ; Such as the souls of cowards might conceive,...believe. Zeal, then, not charity, became the guide, And Itfll was built on spite, and heav'tt on pride. Then sacred seenfdth' ethereal vault no more; Altars... | |
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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. 
