 Two urns by Jove's high throne have ever stood, The source of evil one, and one of good ; From thence the cup of mortal man he fills, Blessings to these, to those distributes ills ; To most, he mingles both : the wretch decreed To taste the bad, unmix'd,...  The British Essayists: Tatler - Seite 2051823Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | Ralph Griffiths, George Edward Griffiths - 1820 - 574 Seiten
...the latter, if we may judge from the quantity used, exceeded in all proportion that of the former. ' Two urns by Jove's high throne have ever stood, The...to those distributes ills, To most he mingles both. — Pope's Iliad, b. xxiv. v. 663. tion is as steady, and the principle as invisible, as that of the... | |
 | Plutarch - 1821 - 378 Seiten
...a passage in the speech of Achilles to Priam in the last Iliad, which is thus translated by Pope : Two urns by Jove's high throne have ever stood, The...fills, Blessings to these, to those distributes ills; most happy to whom fortune gives an equal share of good and evil. For A'imilius having four sons, two... | |
 | Homer - 1822 - 342 Seiten
...is born to bear. Such is, alas! the gods' severe decree: They, only they are bless'd, and only free. Two urns by Jove's high throne have ever stood, The...: the wretch decreed To taste the bad unmix'd, is curs'd indeed ; Pursued by wrongs, by meagre famine driven, He wanders, outcast both of earth and heaven.... | |
 | Plutarch - 1822 - 504 Seiten
...passage in the speech of Achilles to Priam in the bit Iliad, which is thus translated by Pope : — Two urns by Jove's high throne have ever stood, The...; the wretch decreed To taste the bad, unmix'd, is curs'd indeed. The happiest taste not happiness sincere, But find the cordial draught is dash'd with... | |
 | Ezekiel Sanford - 1822 - 344 Seiten
...is born to bear. Such is, alas! the gods' severe decree: They, only they are bless'd, and only free. Two urns by Jove's high throne have ever stood, The...: the wretch decreed To taste the bad unmix'd, is curs'd indeed ; Pursued by wrongs, by meagre famine driven, He wanders, outcast both of earth and heaven.... | |
 | British poets - 1822 - 348 Seiten
...born to bear. Such is, alas ! the gods' severe decree : They, only they are bless'd, and only free. Two urns by Jove's high throne have ever stood, The...: the wretch decreed To taste the bad, unmix'd, is cursed indeed; Pursued by wrongs, by meagre famine driven, He wanders, outcast both of earth and heaven.... | |
 | British essayists - 1823 - 862 Seiten
...with a mountain of winds, another with a magazine of hail, and a third with a pile of thunder-boltsThe Stars offered up their influences; the Ocean gave...ever stood, The source of evil one, and one of good ; J?rom thence the cup of mortal man he fills, Blessings to these, to those distributes ills : To most... | |
 | Lionel Thomas Berguer - 1823 - 334 Seiten
...calamities, of human life. Jupiter, in the beginning of his reign, finding the world much more • Two urns by Jove's high throne have ever stood, The...: the wretch decreed To taste the bad, unmix'd, is curs'd indeed ; Pursu'd by wrongs, by meagre famine driven, He wanders, outcast both of earth and Heaven.... | |
 | James Ferguson - 1823 - 414 Seiten
...plentifully out of the tun that stood at his right hand; but, as mankind degenerated, and became unworthy * Two urns by Jove's high throne have ever stood, The...: the wretch decreed To taste the bad, unmix'd, is curs'd indeed ; Pursu'd by wrongs, by meagre famine driven, He wanders, outcast both of earth and heaven.... | |
 | Plutarch - 1823 - 440 Seiten
...to a passage in the speech of Achilles to Priam in the last Iliad, which is thus translated by Pope: Two urns by Jove's high throne have ever stood, The...mingles both : the wretch decreed To taste the bad nnmix'd, is cu'rs'd indeed. The happiest taste not happiness sincere, But find the cordial draught... | |
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