 | Alexander Pope - 1856 - 352 pages
...darkly wise, and rudely great : With too much knowledge for the sceptic side, With too much weakness for the stoic's pride, He hangs between ; in doubt to act, or rest ; In doubt to deem himself a god, or beast ; In doubt his mind or body to prefer ; Born but to... | |
 | Alexander Pope, George Gilfillan - 1856 - 356 pages
...darkly wise, and rudely great : With too much knowledge for the sceptic side, With too much weakness for the stoic's pride, He hangs between ; in doubt to act, or rest ; In doubt to deem himself a god, or beast ; In doubt his mind or body to prefer ; Born but to... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1859 - 330 pages
...state, and every age of life. With too much knowledge for the sceptic side, With too much weakness for the stoic's pride, He hangs between, in doubt to act or rest ; In doubt to deem himself a god or beast ; In doubt his mind or body to prefer ; Born but to... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1860 - 60 pages
...darkly wise and rudely great ; With too much knowledge for the sceptic side, With too much weakness for the stoic's pride, He hangs between ; in doubt to act or rest ; In doubt to deem himself a god or beast ; In doubt his mind or body to prefer ; Born but to... | |
 | George Augustus Sala, Edmund Yates - English periodicals - 1874 - 588 pages
...darkly wise, and rudely great ; With too much knowledge for the sceptic side, With two much weakness for the Stoic's pride, He hangs between ; in doubt to act, or rest ; In doubt to deem himself a god or beast; In doubt his mind or body to prefer ; Bom but to die,... | |
 | Henry Southgate - 1862 - 774 pages
...darkly wise and rudely great ; With too much knowledge for the sceptic side, With too much greatness for the stoic's pride ; He hangs between, in doubt to act or rest ; In doubt to deem himself a god or beast ; In doubt bis mind or body to prefer ; Born but to... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1863 - 334 pages
...darkly wise and rudely great ; With too much knowledge for the sceptic side, With too much weakness for the stoic's pride, He hangs between, in doubt to act or rest ; In doubt to deem himself a god or beast ; In doubt his mind or body to prefer ; Born but to... | |
 | Hippolyte Taine - English literature - 1863 - 696 pages
...darkly wise, and rudely great : With too much knowledge for the sceptic side, Wich too much weakness for the stoic's pride , He hangs between ; in doubt to act or rest ; In doubt to deem himself a God or beast, In doubt his mind or body to prefer ; Born but to die,... | |
 | 1866 - 328 pages
...darkly wise and rudely great ; With too much knowledge for the sceptic side, With too much weakness for the stoic's pride, He hangs between, in doubt to act or rest ; In doubt to deem himself a god or beast ; In doubt his mind or body to prefer ; Born but to... | |
 | Rev. Henry Greene - 1866 - 558 pages
...darkly wise and rudely great, With too much knowledge for the sceptic's side, With too much greatness for the stoic's pride, He hangs between in doubt to act or rest, In doubt to deem himself a god or beast. AT a period in comparison with whose vast antiquity... | |
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Know then thyself, presume not God to scan, The proper study of mankind is man. Placed on this isthmus of a middle state, A being darkly wise, and rudely great: With too much knowledge for the sceptic side, With too much weakness for the Stoic's pride,... 
