 Parts it may ravage, but preserves the whole. On life's vast ocean diversely we sail, Reason the card, but Passion is the gale ; Nor God alone in the still calm we find, He mounts the storm, and walks upon the wind.  Essai sur l'homme - Pagina 26door Alexander Pope - 1850 - 82 pagina’sVolledige weergave - Over dit boek
 | Alexander Pope - 1828 - 222 pagina’s
...of our life. The rising tempest, puts in act the soul, Parts it may ravage, but preserves the whole. On life's vast ocean diversely we sail, Reason the card, but passion ia the gale , Nor God alone in the still calm we find, He mounts the storm, and walks upon the wind.... | |
 | Thomas Curtis - 1829 - 820 pagina’s
...avail, however famed in war ; Nor armies leagued, and diversely assayed To curb his power. Philips. e. Daubery and daubing are both used in the sense of the substantive daub ; and da Pope. The most common diversity of human constitutions arises from the solid parts, as to their different... | |
 | Henry Kirke White - 1829 - 436 pagina’s
...imitated, as well as most of the following, not from Sternhold, but the original. Thus Pope, ' Not God alone in the still calm we find, He mounts the storm and rides upon the wind.' And.Addison — 'Rides in the whirlwind and directs the storm.' The unfortunate... | |
 | Jesse Torrey - 1830 - 336 pagina’s
...exercise, not rest: The rising tempest puts in act the soul, Parts it may ravage, but preserves the whole. On life's vast ocean diversely we sail, Reason the...find, He mounts the storm, and walks upon the wind. 1 1 Passions, like elements, though born to fight, Yet, mix'd and soften'd, in his work unite: These... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1830 - 500 pagina’s
...exercise, not rest : The rising tempest puts in act the soul ; Parts it may ravage, but preserve the whole. s worst room, with mat half hung. The floors of plaster,...with straw. With tape-tied curtains, never meant to 110 Passions, like elements, though born to fight, Yet mix'd and soflen'd, in his work unite : These... | |
 | William Thomas Petty- Fitzmaurice (earl of Kerry.) - 1830 - 102 pagina’s
...from the same passage in the Psalms (Ps. xviii.) as the lines of Dryden, which are cited above. Not God alone in the still calm we find, He mounts the storm and rides upon the wind. And in the Iliad, book ii. — But various iris, Jove's commands to bear, Speeds... | |
 | Robert Blakey - 1831 - 240 pagina’s
...of character, which is always an object of admiration and esteem. " Passions, like elements, though born to fight, Yet, mix'd and soften'd, in his work...enough to temper and employ ; But what composes man, cau man destroy ? Suflice that reason keeps to nature's road, Subject, compound them, follow her and... | |
 | Samuel B. EMMONS - 1832 - 168 pagina’s
...exercise, not rest: The rising tempest puts in act the soul, Parts it may ravage, but preserves the whole. On life's vast ocean diversely we sail, Reason the...find, He mounts the storm, and walks upon the wind, f _ Passions, -like elements, though born to fight, Yet, mix'd and soften'd, in his works unite; These... | |
 | Charles Feist - 1833 - 304 pagina’s
...whirlwind's wing Riding sublime ! " In the writings of Pope, too, we meet with a similar passage : — " Not God alone in the still calm we find, He mounts the storm and rides upon the wind." And again, Addison : — •" Rides in the whirlwind and directs the storm."... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1835 - 350 pagina’s
...rest : The rising tempest puts in act the soul ; 1 05 Parts it may ravage, but preserves the whole. On life's vast ocean diversely we sail, Reason the...the gale ; Nor God alone in the still calm we find, 109 He mounts the storm, and walks upon the wind. i01 Their virtue fix'd; 'tis fix'd as in a frost.... | |
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