 Placed on this isthmus of a middle state, A being darkly wise, and rudely great ; With too much knowledge for the sceptic side, With too much weakness for the stoic's pride, He hangs between ; in doubt to act or rest ; In doubt to deem himself a god,...  History of English Literature - Página 20por Hippolyte Taine - 1900Vista completa - Acerca de este libro
 | Sarah Josepha Buell Hale - 1855 - 610 páginas
...Essay on Man. Know then thyself, presume not God to sean : The proper study of mankind is man. Plae'd on this isthmus of a middle state, A being darkly wise and rudely great, With too mueh knowledge for the seeptie's side, With too mueh weakness for the stoie's pride, He hangs between,... | |
 | Geoffrey Chaucer - 1856 - 134 páginas
...EPISTLE SECOND. KNOW then thyself, presume not God to scan ; The proper study of mankind is Man. Flac'd on this isthmus of a middle state, A being darkly...and rudely great ; "With too much knowledge for the sceptic's side, With too much weakness for the stoic's pride, He haiig.s between ; in doubt to act... | |
 | Robert Carruthers - 1857 - 554 páginas
...has his curiosa felicitas as well as Pope. The poet tells us, in a beautiful couplet, that man is " Placed on this isthmus of a middle state, A being darkly wise and rudely great." St. John moralises in a like strain : " This is the condition of humanity : we are placed, as it were,... | |
 | Lucius Osgood - 1858 - 494 páginas
...her ^ruiipel-horn. 4. How dear | to this heart ^ are the scenes | pf my childhood ! 5. Placed | on an isthmus [[ of a middle | state, A being | darkly wise || and rudely | great. 6. Warms | in the sun, || refreshes | in the breeze, Glows | in the stars, || and blossoms | in the... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1859 - 504 páginas
...indi vidualt. In every slate, and every a9e of life. L KNOW then thyself, presume not God to scan, <n, stoie's pride, He hangs betwcen ; in doubt to aet, or rest ; In doubt to dcem himself a god, or beast... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1860 - 632 páginas
...and every age of life, ver. 273, &c. EPISTLE II. K.vow then thyself, presume not God to scan ' oper study of mankind is man. Placed on this isthmus of...side, With too much weakness for the Stoic's pride, lie hangs between ; in doubt to act, or rest ; In doubt to deem himself a god, or beast ; In doubt... | |
 | George Augustus Sala, Edmund Yates - 1874 - 588 páginas
...quote from him at random, and the thing is settled : " Know then thyself; presume not God to scan; The proper study of mankind is man. Placed on this...With too much knowledge for the sceptic side, With two much weakness for the Stoic's pride, He hangs between ; in doubt to act, or rest ; In doubt to... | |
 | Henry Southgate - 1862 - 774 páginas
...sections of mankind. /. A. Si. Jo/41. MAN— Proper Study of. Know then thyself, presume not God to scan ; + հ 0 p ߨ P greatness for the stoic's pride ; He hangs between, in doubt to act or rest ; In doubt to deem himself... | |
 | John Antrobus (essayist.) - 1862 - 150 páginas
...friendless master of a World. SELF-KNOWLEDGE.— POPE. Know then Thyself, presume not God to scan, The proper study of Mankind is Man ; Placed on this isthmus of a middle state, A being darkly ivue and rudely great, With too much knowledge for the Sceptic side, With too much weakness for the... | |
 | Hippolyte Taine - 1863 - 712 páginas
...state , A being darkly wise, and rudely great : With too much knowledge for the sceptic side, Wich too much weakness for the stoic's pride , He hangs...doubt to deem himself a God or beast, In doubt his mind'or body to prefer; Born but to die, and reas' ning but to err; Alike in ignorance, his reason... | |
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