 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
 | Alexander Pope - 1856 - 352 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 hurl'd : The glory, jest, and riddle of the world ! l 1 ' Glory, jest, and riddle of... | |
 | Horace Binney Wallace - American literature - 1856 - 478 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 endletz error KurVd ; The glory, jest, and riddle of the world !' Think of these words amid the din... | |
 | Geoffrey Chaucer - 1856 - 134 pages
...confusM, Still by himself abus'd or disabus'd; Created half to rise, and half to fall ; Great lord^>f 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... | |
 | Henry Hegart Breen - English language - 1857 - 336 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 hurl'd, The glory, jest, and riddle of the world." The passage in Pascal is as follows... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1859 - 330 pages
...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 ; Sole judge of truth, in endless error hurl'd ; The glory, jest, and riddle of the world ! Go, wondrous creature ! mount where... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1860 - 60 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 hurl'd : The glory, jest, and riddle of the world ! Go, wondrous creature ! mount where... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1860 - 632 pages
...passion, all confused; Nill 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 T'.ie glory, jest, and riddle of the world ! Go, woiulrouscreatu re! mount where... | |
 | George Augustus Sala, Edmund Yates - English periodicals - 1874 - 588 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 hurled, The glory, jest, and riddle of the world." It is in this way, if by no means... | |
 | William Gresley - Apologetics - 1861 - 424 pages
...presume not GOD to scan, The proper study of mankind is man ; 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, pest, and riddle of the world." POPE. MEN'S minds are turned just... | |
 | Henry Southgate - 1862 - 774 pages
...passions 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 hurl'd ; The glory, jest, and riddle of the world, fop«. MAN— Superiority of. While... | |
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