 | Alexander Pope - 1860 - 60 Seiten
...immortal there ; Snatch from his hand the balance and the rod, Rejudge his justice, be the God of God. In pride, in reasoning pride, our error lies ; All...rush into the skies. 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... | |
 | 1864 - 1164 Seiten
...from the Protairean axiom, that "Man is the measure of all things;'" or, as Pope has exessed it,— " In pride, in reasoning pride, our error lies. All quit their sphere, aud rush into the skies." n Pope expresses it, we agree with him ; but this is not the only interpretation... | |
 | 1861 - 356 Seiten
...mind, What the weak head with strongest bias rules, Is pride, the never-failing vice of fools. POPE. In pride, in reasoning pride, our error lies; All...rush into the skies. Pride still is aiming at the bleat abodes, Men would be angels, angels would be gods. Aspiring to be gods, if angels fell, Aspiring... | |
 | 1862 - 942 Seiten
...intellect, strut about in every form and shape. The words of the Poet might have been written for us, — " In pride, in reasoning pride, our error lies, All quit their sphere, and rush into the skies." Let the Christian beware of this stealthy foe ; though he be a wise Christian, yet let him not glory... | |
 | 1862 - 582 Seiten
...which he has ordained, make merchandise of souls with all " the deceiveableness of unrighteusness." " In pride, in reasoning pride our error lies, All quit their sphere and rush into-the skies." By this means was sin brought into the world, and the worship of the golden calves... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1863 - 334 Seiten
...immortal there, Snatch from his hand the balance and the rod, Rejudge his justice, be the god of God. In pride, in reasoning pride our error lies ; All...rush into the skies. Pride still is aiming at the bless'd abodes, Men would be angels, angels would be gods. Aspiring to bo gods if angels fell, Aspiring... | |
 | John Cooper Grocott - 1863 - 562 Seiten
...9. Here beggar pride defrauds her daily cheer, To boast one splendid banquet once a year. PRIDE. — In pride, in reasoning pride, our error lies ; All...rush into the skies. Pride still is aiming at the biest abodes, Men would be angels, angels would be gods. POPE. — Essay on Man, Epi. I. Line 128.... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1963 - 884 Seiten
...his hand the balance and the rod, Re-judge his justice, be the GOD of GOD ! In Pride, in reas'ning Pride, our error lies; All quit their sphere, and...skies. Pride still is aiming at the blest abodes, 125 Men would be Angels, Angels would be Gods. Aspiring to be Gods, if Angels fell, Aspiring to be... | |
 | Arthur O. Lovejoy - 1936 - 404 Seiten
...counterwork the Universal Cause," to disturb the very system of the universe. In pride, in reas'ning pride, our error lies; All quit their sphere and rush...abodes, Men would be angels, angels would be gods. Man should, accordingly, eschew all the vaster enterprises of the mind; he was not meant and is not... | |
 | Alexander Hamilton - 1977 - 678 Seiten
...J. Wilford, 1733-34), Epistle I, lines 123-29. The entire quotation reads: "In pride, in reas'ning pride, our error lies; All quit their sphere and rush into the skies! 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... | |
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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 the laws Of Order, sins against the Eternal Cause. 
