 | Alexander Pope - 1859 - 330 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...could 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,... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1860 - 60 pages
...proper operation still Ascribe all good, to their improper ill. Self-love, the spring of motion, aets the soul ; Reason's comparing balance rules the whole....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,... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1860 - 632 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 atlend, And. but for this, were active to no end: Fix'd like... | |
 | Jacob Lowres - 1862 - 192 pages
...attribute all that is good, and to their improper, all that is evil. EXERCISE. Continuation of the above. Self-love, the spring of motion, acts the soul; Reason's...comparing balance rules the whole; Man, but for that, could to no action tend, And but for this, were active to no end, Pix'd like a plant to his peculiar... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1863 - 334 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...could 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 ; VOL. II. 4 Or, meteor-like,... | |
 | George Payn Quackenbos - English language - 1865 - 476 pages
...which begin differently but end alike. It is exemplified at the close' of the following lincs : — " Self-love, the spring of motion, acts the soul; Reason's comparing balance rules the whole." A Distich, or couplet, consists of two verses rhyming together ; the lincs just given are an example.... | |
 | 1866 - 328 pages
...move or govern all ; And to then- proper operation still Ascribe all good, to their improper — ill. Self-love, the spring of motion, acts the soul ; Reason's...could 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 ; VOL. n. 4 Or, meteor-like,... | |
 | Henry George Bohn - Quotations - 1867 - 752 pages
...dies. B. Jonson, Cynthia' t Eev. Thou, who lov'st but what nothing loves, And that's thyself. Dryden. Self-love the spring of motion, acts the soul ; Reason's...could 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,... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1867 - 520 pages
...Ascribe all good ; to their improper, ill. Self-love, the spring of motion, acts the soul; Season'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 spot, To draw nutrition, propagate, and rot ; Or, meteor-like,... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1867 - 626 pages
...to move or govern all ; And to their proper operation still Ascrihe all good, to their improper ill. Self-love, the spring of motion, acts the soul ; Reason's comparing balance rules the whole. 60 Man, b'ut for that, no action could attend ; And, but for this, were active to no end : Fix'd 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,... 
