 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
 | British anthology - 1825
...the skies. c Pride still is aiming at the bless'd abodes, Men would be angels, angels would be gods. Aspiring to be gods, if angels fell, Aspiring to be...but wishes to invert the laws Of order, sins against the Eternal Cause. 5. Ask for what end the heavenly bodies shine, Earth for whose use ? —Pride answers,... | |
 | George Wilkins - 1825 - 472 páginas
...angels, angels would be gods; Aspiring to be gods, the angels fell, Aspiring to be angels, men rebel. He who but wishes to invert the laws Of Order, sins against th' Eternal Cause." Equality was not designed by God, nor can it be established by man; for, supposing, for rtroys the... | |
 | Augustus Toplady - 1825
...condescended to reveal. " With trembling pinions soar : Wait the great teacher, death : and God adore, Aspiring to be gods, if angels fell ; Aspiring to be angels, men rebel." 3. If the faith of the devils is a faith without works ; it follows, that such faith is unprofitable... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1826 - 286 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...wishes to invert the laws Of ORDER, sins against th' ETERNAJ, CATJS^. — POPE. SECTION X. Selfishness reproved. 1 Has God, thou fool ! work'd solely for... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1826
...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 Of ORUKR, sins against th' ETERXAI. CAUSE. f ort SECTION X. Selfishness reproved. \. HAS God, thou fool... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1826 - 252 páginas
...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 Of OHBER, sins against th' ETERNAL CAUSE. — FOPS. SECTION X. Selfishness reproved. HAS God, thou fool... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1826 - 209 páginas
...angels, angels would be god* R Aspiring to be angels, men rebel: Aspiring to be gods, if angels fell, And who but wishes to invert the laws Of ORDER, sins against th' ETERNAL CAUSE.—POPK> SECTION X.—Selfishness reflravfd. 1. HAS God, thou fool! work'd solely for thy good,... | |
 | Robert Waln, Demi-Quaker - 1826 - 67 páginas
...ministers to others, when his own light is extinguished. These are they who are described by the poet — " Aspiring to be Gods, if angels fell, " Aspiring to be angels, men rebel." But, notwithstanding the discouraging prospects which surround this people, I trust that all is not... | |
 | George Crabb - 1826 - 688 páginas
...grace now to be happy is before thee laid. SPENSSB. It is the lot of but few to aspire to a throne ; Aspiring- to be gods, if angels fell, Aspiring to be angels, men rebel. POPE. We aim, at what is attainable by ordinary efforts ; we aspire after what is great and unusual.... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1826
...the individual, and less advantageous to society, than the grossest and most unblushing vanity — Aspiring to be Gods, if angels fell, Aspiring to be angels, men rebel. If a celebrated artist in our own day had staid to do justice to his principal figure in a generally... | |
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