| Alexander Pope - 1751 - 272 pages
...111. Self-love, the fpring of motion, a<5ls the foul ; Reafon's comparing balance rules the whole, 60 Man, but for that, no action could attend, And, but for this, were active to no end : NOTES. VER. 47. Or tricks to Janv the ftretch of human brain,] Such as the mathematical demonilrations... | |
| Alexander Pope - English literature - 1757 - 234 pages
...Afcribe all Good, to their improper, 111. Self-love, the fpring of motion, acts the foul ; Reafon's comparing balance rules the whole. Man, but for that,...could attend, And, but for this, were active to no end : Fix'd like a plant on his peculiar fpot, To draw nutrition, propagate, and rot : Or, meteor-like,... | |
| John Newbery - English poetry - 1762 - 292 pages
...Afcrihe all Good ; to their Improper, ill. Self-love, the fpring of motion, afts the foul ; Reafon's comparing balance rules the whole. Man, but for that, no action could attend, And, but for this, were aftive to no end ; Fix'd like a plant on his peculiar (pot, To draw nutrition, propagate, and rot :... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1763 - 150 pages
...III. Self-love, the fpring of motion, a£ts the foul; Reafon's comparing balance rules the whole. 60 Man, but for that, no action could attend, And but for this, were active to no end : Fix'd like a plant on his peculiar fpot, To draw nutrition, propagate, and rot; Or, meteor-like,... | |
| Robert Lowth - English language - 1763 - 226 pages
...of motion, ads the foul ; Reafon's comparing balance rules the whole : Man, but for that, no a&ion could attend ; \ And, but for this, were active to no end." ' Pope, Effsuy on Man. « Some place the blifs in action, fome in eafe : Tbofe call it pleafure, and contentment... | |
| Laurence Nihell - Ethics - 1773 - 198 pages
...full idea of man. "——Self-love, the fpring of motion, aRs the foul, Reafon's comparing ballance rules the whole, Man, but for that, no action could attend, And, but for this, were adtive to no end : Fix'd like a plant on his peculiar fpot, To draw nutrition, propagate, and rot ;... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1777 - 262 pages
...Self-love, the fpring of motion, aas the foul ; Reifon's comparing'baUnte rules the whole. Man butfor that, no action could attend, And, but for this, were active to no end : Fix'd like a plant on his peculiar fpot, To draw nutrition, propagate, and rot : Or, meteor-like,... | |
| John Bell - English poetry - 1796 - 524 pages
...govern all; And to their proper operation still Ascribe all good ; to their improper, ill. Self-love, the spring of motion, acts the soul; Reason's comparing balance rules the whole. 60 Man, but for that, no action could attend, And, but for this, were active to no end; Fix'd like... | |
| Robert Lowth - English language - 1791 - 192 pages
...vocal hill !" Pope, Iliad, xvi. 284. G «• Nor .-' *' Self-love, the fpring of motion, acts the foul; Reason's comparing balance rules the whole ; Man,...that, no action could attend ; And, but for this, were a&ive to no end." Pope, Eflay on Man. " Some place the blifs in aftion, fame in eafe : Thofe call it... | |
| James Roach - English poetry - 1793 - 274 pages
...flill, Afcnbe all good, to tlieir improper, ill. Self-love, the fprmg of monon, a£h the foul ; Rcafon's comparing balance rules the whole. Man, but for that, no action could attend, And, hut for ihi*, were aftive to no end : yix'd like a plant on his peculiar fpot, To draw nutrition, propagate,... | |
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