 | Lindley Murray - 1837 - 276 Seiten
...lies ; All quit their sphere, and rush into the skies. Pride still is aiming at the blest abodes ; Men would be angels, angels would be gods. Aspiring...invert the laws Of ORDER, sins against th' ETERNAL CAUSE.—POPE. But thinks, admitted to that equal sky, His faithful dog shall bear him company. f SECTION... | |
 | Samuel Carter Hall - 1837 - 448 Seiten
...error lies; All quit their sphere, and rush into the skies. Pride still is aiming at the blest abodes, Men would be angels, angels would be gods. Aspiring...men rebel : And who but wishes to invert the laws s Of order, sins against th' Eternal Caus.e. ELEGY TO THE MEMORY OP AN UNFORTUNATE LADY. WHAT beckoning... | |
 | Jesse Olney - 1838 - 346 Seiten
...error lies; All quit their sphere, and rush into the skies. Pride still is aiming at the blest abodes ; Men would be angels, angels would be gods. Aspiring...the laws Of ORDER, sins against th' ETERNAL CAUSE. 22 LESSON CXXV. The Nature of True Eloquence. — D. WEBSTER. 1. WHEN public bodies are to be addressed... | |
 | Alexander Jamieson - 1838 - 338 Seiten
...Thus Pope, in the Essay on Man: " Pride still is aiming at the blest abodes, MEN would be ANGELS, II ANGELS would be gods ; Aspiring to be GODS, || if ANGELS FELL, Aspiring to be ANGELS, || MEN rebel." Scholium. No figure has, perhaps, been so anxiously sought, and with so little success, as antithesis.... | |
 | Alexander Hamilton - 1977 - 678 Seiten
...error lies; All quit their sphere and rush into the skies! Pride still is aiming at the bless'd abodes, Men would be angels, angels would be gods. Aspiring...if angels fell, Aspiring to be angels men rebel." 4. George Cabot. To Oliver Wolcott, Junior l [New York, December, 1800] Your last letter,2 My Dear... | |
 | Steadman Upham - 1990 - 344 Seiten
...UPHAM 1 Decoupling the processes of political evolution STEADMAN UPHAM New Mexico State University Men would be Angels, Angels would be Gods. Aspiring...Gods if Angels fell, Aspiring to be Angels men rebel. Alexander Pope, An Essay on Man How many angels can sit on the head of a pin? For archaeologists and... | |
 | Thomas P. Saine - 1997 - 388 Seiten
...error lies; All quit their sphere, and rush into the skies. Pride still is aiming at the blest abodes, Men would be Angels, Angels would be Gods. Aspiring...but wishes to invert the laws Of ORDER, sins against th'Eternal Cause.33 The first epistle of the Essay on Man culminates in the well-known proclamation,... | |
 | Nancy Dean - 2000 - 164 Seiten
...pride of angels with the intent of stressing the dangers of perverting the "natural order" of things: Aspiring to be Gods, if Angels fell,/ Aspiring to be Angels, Men rebel. Pope furthers his argument by comparing Satan's fall from grace (when he rebelled against God) to man's... | |
 | John Adams - 2004 - 580 Seiten
...error lies, All quit their sphere, and rush into the skies; Pride still is aiming at the blest abodes, Men would be angels, angels would be gods, Aspiring...if angels fell, Aspiring to be angels, men rebel. The modern improvers of society, — ameliorators of the condition of mankind, instructors of the human... | |
 | Giuseppe Antonio Camerino - 2006 - 280 Seiten
...Tentar di farsi al Creatore eguale?». Cinque versi contro i lapidari due di Pope (I, vv. 129-130): «And who but wishes to invert the laws / Of order, sins against the Eternal Cause». Essi seguono di poco altri (vv. 118-122) non meno vibranti contro lo stupido orgoglio... | |
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Pride, our error lies; All quit their sphere, and rush into the skies. Pride still is aiming at the blest abodes, Men would be Angels, Angels would be Gods. Aspiring to be Gods, if Angels fell, Aspiring to be Angels, Men rebel: And who but wishes to invert... 
