Tis but to know how little can be known, To see all others' faults, and feel our own ; Condemn'd in business or in arts to drudge, Without a second, or without a judge. Truths would you teach, or save a sinking land ? All fear, none aid you, and few understand... Essai sur l'homme - Pagina 74door Alexander Pope - 1850 - 82 pagina’sVolledige weergave - Over dit boek
| John Close - 1833 - 182 pagina’s
...know, how little can be known, To see all other's faults, and feel our own ; Condemn'd in business, or in arts to drudge, Without a second, or without a Judge, Truths would yon teach, or save a sinking laud T All fear, none aid you, and few understand. Painful pre-eminence... | |
| 1834 - 498 pagina’s
...countenances. I felt the full force of the lamentation of the poet — " Truths would you teach to save a sinking land, All fear, none aid you, and few understand." As I had occasion to pass daily to and from the buildingyard, while my boat was in progress, I have... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1835 - 350 pagina’s
...know how little can be known ; To see all others' faults, and feel our own : Condemn'd in business or in arts to drudge, Without a second, or without...land ? All fear, none aid you, and few understand. 266 fortitude of mind : it may be combined with the most unintelligent habits, the most obscure conceptions,... | |
| Joseph Story - 1835 - 558 pagina’s
...cast of incredulity on their countenances. I felt the full force of the lamentation of the poet, " Truths would you teach, or save a sinking land ? All fear, none aid you, and few understand." As I had occasion to pass daily to and from the building-yard, while my boat was in progress, I have... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1836 - 332 pagina’s
...to know how little can be known, To see all others' faults, and feel our own ; Condemn'd in business or in arts to drudge, Without a second, or without...few understand. Painful pre-eminence ! yourself to viewi Above life's weakness, and its comforts too. Bring then these blessings to a strict account :... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1836 - 502 pagina’s
...little can he known, To see all others' faults, and feel our own ; ^ondemn'd in husiness or in arta to drudge, Without a second, or without a judge : Truths would you Ahove life's weakness, and its comforts too. Bring then these hlessings to a strict account : Make... | |
| 1836 - 378 pagina’s
...cast of incredulity on their countenances. I felt the full force of the lamentation of the poet, " Truths would you teach, or save a sinking land ? All fear, none aid you, and few understand." As I had occasion to pass daily to and from the building188 yard, while my boat was in progress, I... | |
| Original - 1836 - 456 pagina’s
...end. What Pope says, is still near the truth, though, perhaps, not quite so near as when he wrote : Truths would you teach, or save a sinking land, All fear, none aid you, and few understand. nn 2 The consequence is, reform advances with an unsteady step, upheld by party for party purposes,... | |
| Charles Bucke - 1837 - 364 pagina’s
...same day ; praying that the king of Prussia might, ere long, descend to the tomb of the Capulets. ' Truths would you teach, or save a sinking land ? All fear, none aid you, and few understand.'* An Armenian chief at Damascus seems to have understood this well. ' You should send your son to Eu'... | |
| Jesse Olney - 1838 - 346 pagina’s
...know how little can be known ; To see all others' faults, and feel our own ; Condemn'd in business or in arts to drudge, Without a second or without a judge. Truths would you teach, to save a sinking land T All fear, none aid you, and few understand. Painful pre-eminence ! yourself... | |
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