Created half to rise, and 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! An Essay on Man - Page 32by Alexander Pope - 1763 - 124 pagesFull view - About this book
| Thomas Ewing - 1832 - 428 pages
...passion, all confused ; Still by himself abused or disabused ; Created half to rise, and half to fall ; Great lord of all things, yet a prey to all ; Sole judge of truth, in endless error hurled ; The glory, jest, and riddle of the world ! Go, wondcrous creature ! mount where... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1835 - 350 pages
...passion, all confused ; Still by himself abused or disabused ; Created half to rise and half to fall ; 15 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 ! mount where... | |
| Alexander Pope - English poetry - 1836 - 332 pages
...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... | |
| Horace Binney Wallace - 1838 - 264 pages
...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... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1839 - 510 pages
...passion, all confused ; Still by himself abused, or disabused ; Created half to rise, and half to fall ; endless error hurl'd : The glory, jest, and riddle of the world ! Go, wondrous creature ! mount where... | |
| John Aikin - English poetry - 1841 - 840 pages
...passion, all confus'd ; Still by himself ahus'd, or disahus'd ; Created half to rise, and 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! mount where... | |
| John Aikin - English poetry - 1843 - 826 pages
...passion, all confus'd ; Still by himself abus'd, or disabus'd ; Created half to rise, and half to fall ; distemper'd dreams? Who would in such n gloomy state remain Longer t endless error hurl'd : The glory, jest, and riddle of the world! Go, wondrous creature ! mount where... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1844 - 94 pages
...passion, all confused ; Still by himself abused, or disabused; Created half to rise, and half to fall ; 15 Great lord of all things, yet a prey to all ; Sole judge of truth, in endle.se error hurl'd; The glory, jest, and riddle of the world ! Go, wondrous creature ! mount where... | |
| Quotations, English - 1847 - 540 pages
...active flame, The love of glory, or the dread of shame. POPE. 17. 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. 18. Behold the child, by nature's kindly... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1847 - 524 pages
...all confus'd ; Still by himself abus'd, or disabus'd ; Created half to rise, and half to fall ; 15 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 ! NOTES. Ver. 10. Born but to die,... | |
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