Pride, our error lies; All quit their sphere, and rush into the skies. Pride still is aiming at the blest abodes, Men would be Angels, Angels would be Gods. Aspiring to be Gods, if Angels fell, Aspiring to be Angels, Men rebel: And who but wishes to invert... Murray's English Reader: Or, Pieces in Prose and Poetry, Selected from the ... - Página 281por Lindley Murray, Jeremiah Goodrich - 1825 - 302 páginasVista completa - Acerca de este libro
| Samuel Carter Hall - 1837 - 448 páginas
...into the skies. Pride still is aiming at the blest abodes, Men would be angels, angels would be gods. Aspiring to be gods, if angels fell, Aspiring to be...men rebel : And who but wishes to invert the laws s Of order, sins against th' Eternal Caus.e. ELEGY TO THE MEMORY OP AN UNFORTUNATE LADY. WHAT beckoning... | |
| Jesse Olney - 1838 - 346 páginas
...into the skies. Pride still is aiming at the blest abodes ; Men would be angels, angels would be gods. Aspiring to be gods, if angels fell, Aspiring to be...the laws Of ORDER, sins against th' ETERNAL CAUSE. 22 LESSON CXXV. The Nature of True Eloquence. — D. WEBSTER. 1. WHEN public bodies are to be addressed... | |
| Alexander Jamieson - 1838 - 338 páginas
...on Man: " Pride still is aiming at the blest abodes, MEN would be ANGELS, II ANGELS would be gods ; Aspiring to be GODS, || if ANGELS FELL, Aspiring to be ANGELS, || MEN rebel." Scholium. No figure has, perhaps, been so anxiously sought, and with so little success, as antithesis.... | |
| Lindley Murray - 1839 - 276 páginas
...into the skies. Pride still is aiming at the blest abodes ; Men would be angels, angels would be gods. Aspiring to be gods, if angels fell, Aspiring to be...the laws Of ORDER, sins against th' ETERNAL CAUSE. — POK. SECTION X. Stlfiihneis reproved. HAS God, thou fool ! work'd solely for thy good, Thy joy,... | |
| Noah Webster - 1839 - 262 páginas
...before ?" In the middle of the second foot, the pause may be used, but it produces little melody. " And who but wishes to invert the laws Of order, sins against the eternal cause." Harmony is produced by a proportion between the members of the same verse, or between... | |
| George Campbell - 1840 - 450 páginas
...couplets : Pride still is aiming at the blest abodes ; MEN would be ANGELS, |j ANGELS would be GODS. Aspiring to be GODS, || if ANGELS fell ;— Aspiring to be ANGELS, || MEN rebel7. The like varied opposition in the words principles, means, and ends, may be observed in the... | |
| John Aikin - 1841 - 840 páginas
...the skie«. Pride still is aiming at the blest abode«, Men would be angels, angels would be god«. ly taint the female soul, Instruct the eyes of young...roll, Teach infant cheeks a bidden blush to know. V. Ask for what end the heavenly bodies shin*, Earth for whose use ? Pride answers, " Tu iff mine:... | |
| John Aikin - 1843 - 826 páginas
...into the skies. Pride still is aiming at the blest abodes, Men would be angels, angels would be gods. V. Ask for what end the heavenly bodies shine, Earth for whose use? Pride answers, "Tis for mine: For... | |
| Sarah Stickney Ellis - 1843 - 554 páginas
...importance to be made instrumental in conveying the following severe, yet just reproof to man. " Ни God, thou fool ! work'd solely for thy good ! Thy joy, thy pastime, thy nuire, thy food ! Who for thy table feeds the wanton tawn, For him as kindly spreads tlie flow'ry lawn.... | |
| 1937 - 330 páginas
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