 Ask for what end the heavenly bodies shine, Earth for whose use? Pride answers, " 'Tis for mine: For me kind nature wakes her genial power, Suckles each herb, and spreads out every flower; Annual for me, the grape, the rose renew The juice nectareous,...  Scientific Dialogues - Page 312by Jeremiah Joyce - 1815 - 260 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Noah Webster - Elocution - 1804 - 254 pages
...well won thrift, Which he calls usury. Cursed be my tribe If I forgive him. Merck, of Venice, fXIDg. Ask for what end the heavenly bodies shine, Earth for whose use — Pride answers, " 'Tis for mine. For me kind natnre wakes her genial pow'r, Suckles each herb, and spreads out every flower ; Annual,... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1807 - 474 pages
...angels men rebel : And who but wishes to invert the laws Of order, sins against the' Eternal cause. 3. Ask for what end the heavenly bodies shine, Earth for whose use ?— Pride answers, " Tis for mine : " For me kind Nature wakes her genial power, " Suckles each herh, and spreads out every flower ;... | |
 | Alexander Pope, Thomas Park - 1808 - 328 pages
...angels, men rebel : And who but wishes to invert the laws Of order, sins against the' Eternal canse. 5. Ask for what end the heavenly bodies shine, Earth for whose use ?— Pride answers, "Tis for mine : For me kind Nature wakes her genial power, Suckles each herb and spreads out every flower; Annual... | |
 | Oratory - 1808 - 540 pages
...expressive of the ostentation of the speaker, and the riches and grandeur of the objects introduced. " Ask for what end the heavenly bodies shine, " Earth for whose use:" Pride answers, " 'Tis for mine, " For me kind Nature wakes her genial power, « Suckles each herb, and spreads out every flower; "... | |
 | 1808 - 408 pages
...And who hut wishes to invert the Ian s Of order, sins against tb" Internal Cause. Ask for « liât end the heavenly bodies shine, Earth for whose use? Pride answers, " 'Tis for mine : " For me kind Nature n alces her »cnial pow'r, " Suckles each herb, and spreads out er'ry flow'r,... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1808 - 334 pages
...angels, men rebel : And who but wishes to invert the laws Of order, sins against the' Eternal cause. 5. Ask for what end the heavenly bodies shine, Earth for whose use r— Pride answers, ' 'Tis for mine : For me kind Nature wakes her genial power, Suckles each herb... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - English poetry - 1810 - 536 pages
...men rebel : And who but wishes to invert the law* Of order, sins against th' Eternal Cause. 139 V. Ask for what end the heavenly bodies shine, Earth for whose use? Pride apswers, " Tisfor iiiiuci For me kind Nature wakes her genial power ; Suckles each herb, and spreads... | |
 | William Warburton - 1811 - 444 pages
...every thing made solely for the use of Man ; without the least regard to any other of God's creatures. Ask for what end the heavenly Bodies shine, Earth for whose use ? PRIDE answers, 'Tis for mine: For me, kind Nature wakes, her genial power, •'-.•• Suckles each herb, and spreads out ev'ry... | |
 | William Warburton (Bp. of Gloucester), Richard Hurd - Theology - 1811 - 446 pages
...every thing made solely for the use of Man ; without the least regard to any other of God's creatures. Ask for what end the heavenly Bodies shine, Earth for whose use ? PRIDE answers, Tis for mine', For me, kind Nature wakes her genial power, Suckles each herb, and spreads out ev'ry flower j ~- •... | |
 | Richard Lobb - Nature study - 1817 - 430 pages
...disproportions, with superfluous hand So many nobler bodies to create. MILTON. Ask for what end the heav'nly bodies shine ? Earth for whose use ? Pride answers,...me rise, My footstool earth, my canopy the skies.' POPB. But do these worlds display their beams, or guide Their orbs to serve thy use, to please thy... | |
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