 | Jesse Torrey - Ethics - 1830 - 336 pages
...move or govern all: And to their proper operation still, Ascribe all good; to their improper, ill. 4 Self-love, the spring of motion, acts the soul; Reason's...attend, And, but for this, were active to no end; Fix'd like a plant on his peculiar spot, To draw nutrition, propagate and rot; Or, meteor-like, flame... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1830 - 500 pages
...aU : And to their proper operation still, Ascribe all good, to their improper, ill. Self-love, Uie she anchor'd ? near or off" the shore ? Thus he. His meditated 60 Man, but for that, no action could attend, And, but for this, were active to no end : Fix'd like... | |
 | David Booth - English language - 1831 - 366 pages
...this referring to the noun,orto the phrase, last spoken, and that to what was first mentioned Thus, " Self-love, the spring of motion, acts the soul; Reason's...but for that, no action could attend, And, but for thii, were active to no end." " Some place the bliss in action, some in ease ; Thote call it pleasure,... | |
 | Samuel B. EMMONS - English language - 1832 - 168 pages
...move or 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...attend, And, but for this, were active to no end: ^.Fix'cLJike a plant on his peculiar spot, To draw nutrition, propagate and rot: Or, meteor-like, flame... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1835 - 350 pages
...to move or 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 that Pope's idea was not clear to himself: his ear was caught by the epigram, while he was poetically... | |
 | Alexander Pope - English poetry - 1836 - 332 pages
...move or 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, hut for this, were active to no end : Fix'd like... | |
 | David Booth - 1837 - 360 pages
...this referring to the noun, or to the phrase, last spoken, and that to the first mentioned : thus, " Self-love, the spring of motion, acts the soul ; Reason's...attend, And, but for this, were active to no end." POPE. " Some place the bliss in action, some in ease ; Those call it pleasure, and contentment these." Ibid.... | |
 | Samuel Drew - Immortality - 1837 - 336 pages
...improper ill. " Self-love, the spring of motion, acts the soul : Reason's comparing balance weighs the whole. Man but for that no action could attend, And but for this were active to no end : Fixed like a plant to his peculiar spot, To draw nutrition, propagate, and rot: Or, meteor -like,... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1839 - 510 pages
...move or govern all : And to their proper operation still, Ascribe all good ; to their improper, ill. ander hut for that, no action could attend, And, hut for this, were active to no end: Fix'd like a plant... | |
 | John Aikin - English poetry - 1841 - 840 pages
...proper operation still, Ascribe all good, to their improper, ill. Self-love, the spring of million, + 4 : Fix'd like a plant on his peculiar spol ; To draw nutrition, propagate, and rot. Or, meteor-like,... | |
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Each works its end, to move or 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. Man, but for that, no action could attend,... 
