 | Alexander Pope - 1821 - 86 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. 26fr l, then, not charity, became the guide, And hell was built on spite, and heaven on pride. Then... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1821 - 268 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...conceive, And, form'd like tyrants, tyrants would belicve. Zeal then, not charity, became the guide ; And Hell was built on spite, and Heav'n on pride.... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1821 - 254 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...changeful , passionate , unjust, Whose attributes werge Rae , Revenge , or Lust Such as the souls of cowards might conceive , And , form'd like tyrants,... | |
 | Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1821 - 94 Seiten
...effect, tracing the progress of superstition, says — " Fear made their devils, and weak hope their Gods ; " Gods partial, changeful, passionate, unjust, " Whose attributes were rage , revenge, or lust •' " Zeal then, not charity, became the guide, " And hell was built in spite, and heaven in pride."... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1822 - 370 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 ; NOT1S. Revenge and Lust ; in a word, the antitype of himself. But there was another and more substantial... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1822 - 372 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 ; NOTES. Revenge and Lust ; in a word, the antitype of himself. But there was another and more substantial... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1822 - 368 Seiten
...NOTIS. Such as the souls of cowards might 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 sacred seem'd th' ethereal vault no more ; Altars grew marble then, and reek'd... | |
 | 1822 - 628 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 imagination, the overflowings of our enthusiasm,... | |
 | William Enfield - 1823 - 412 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' ethereal vault no more ; Altars grew marble then, and reek'd... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1824 - 1062 Seiten
...bursting skies, Saw gods descend, qnd fiends infernal rise : Here fix'd the dreadful, there the blest th, and thund'rm; sound, Amaz'd the gazing rusties...he knew. But past is all his fame. The very spot seem'd the ethereal vault no more ; Altars grew marble then, and reek'd with gore : Then first the... | |
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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. 
