| Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1800 - 496 pages
...bear. <16o Such is, alas! the Gods' ieyerc decree; They, only they, are bleft, and only free. Two urn* by Jove's high throne have ever flood, The fource of evil one, and one of good ; from thence the cup of mortal man he fills, 665 Bleflings to thcfe, to thofe diflributes ills; To... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1804 - 496 pages
...to bear. 660 Such is, alas ! the Gods' fevcre decree • They, only they, are bleft, and only free. Two urns by Jove's high throne have ever flood, The fource of evil one, and one of good ; From thence the cup of mortal man he (ills, 665 Blcffings to thcfe, to thofe diftributes ills ; To... | |
| Plutarch - Greece - 1804 - 412 pages
...to a paffage in the fpeech of Achilles toSriam in the laft Iliad, which is thus tranflated by Pope : Two urns by Jove's high throne have ever flood, The fource of evil one, and ona of good. From thence the cup of mortal man he fills, Bleffings to tbefe, to thofe distributes ills;... | |
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