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 | Alexander Pope - English poetry - 1836
...thought and passion, all confused ; Still by himself abused or disabused; Created half to rise, or half to fall ; Great lord of all things, yet a prey to all ; Sole judge of truth, in endless error hurl'd ; The glory, jest, and riddle of the world ! Go, wondrous creature! moun,t where science guides,... | |
 | Horace Binney Wallace - 1838
...majestic wisdom — as his description of the state of man : ' Born but to die, and reasoning but to err : Great lord of all things, yet a prey to all ; Sole judge of truth, in endless error hurl'd ; The glory, jest, and riddle of the world !' Think of these words amid the din of worldly business;... | |
 | Gerald A. Arbuckle - Religion - 1988 - 201 pages
...such. Whether he thinks too little, or too much; Chaos of Thought and Passion, all confus'd. . . . Great Lord of all things, yet a prey to all Sole judge of Truth, in endless Error hurl'd.3 1n our efforts to describe the need for congregational prophets, 1 have turned to the findings... | |
 | Margit Hacker - Utopias in literature - 1989 - 180 pages
...but to err; [...] Chaos of Thought and Passion, all confus'd; Still by himself abus'd, or disabus'd; Created half to rise, and half to fall; Great lord of all things, yet a prey to all;"110 Mit den Begriffspaaren "Mind" - "Body" und "Thought" - "Passion" werden die Pole einer dualistischen... | |
 | W. E. Butler - Body, Mind & Spirit - 1990 - 182 pages
...reas'ning but to err; Alike in ignorance, his reason such, Whether he thinks too little or too much; Chaos of thought and passion, all confused; Still...lord of all things, yet a prey to all; Sole judge oftnith, in endless error hurled; Tlie glory, jest, and riddle of the world! That comes from Pope's... | |
 | Misia Landau - Social Science - 1993 - 215 pages
...be anything to look back on. (14) At first glance, Johanson's dim view reflects an old image of man: Created half to rise, and half to fall; Great lord of all things, yet prey to all; Sole judge of Truth, in endless error hurl'd; The glory, jest and riddle of the world.... | |
 | Ruth Padel - Drama - 1994 - 230 pages
...act, or rest; In doubt to deem himself a God, or Beast; In doubt his Mind or Body to prefer. . . . Created half to rise, and half to fall; Great Lord of all things, yet a prey to all. . . .M Some seed of this vision of an essential distinction between human and nonhuman is certainly... | |
 | William Gerber - Philosophy - 1994 - 282 pages
...but to err; . . . Chaos of Thought and Passion, all confus'd; Still by himself abus'd, or disabus'd; Created half to rise, and half to fall; Great lord...prey to all: Sole judge of Truth, in endless Error hurl'd: The glory, jest, and riddle of the world! Go, teach Eternal Wisdom how to rule — Then drop... | |
 | Martha Woodmansee, Peter Jaszi - Literary Criticism - 1994 - 462 pages
...little, or too much: Chaos of Thought and Passion, all confus'd; Still by himself abus'd, or disabus'd; Created half to rise, and half to fall; Great lord...prey to all; Sole judge of Truth, in endless Error hurl'd: The glory, jest, and riddle of the world!14 By the end of Essay on Man, this mass of confusion... | |
 | Joseph Carroll - Literary Criticism - 1995 - 518 pages
...little, or too much; Chaos of Thought and Passion, all confus'd; Still by himself abus'd, or disabus'd; Created half to rise, and half to fall; Great lord...prey to all; Sole judge of Truth, in endless Error hurl'd: The glory, jest, and riddle of the world!33 One of the current ways in which man is by himself... | |
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