| 1857 - عدد الصفحات: 588
...Aird's " Poems," and he will not fail to please the receiver. N. SELF-LOVE AND KEASON. — Self-love, the spring of motion, acts the soul ; [Reason's comparing...balance rules the whole ; Man, but for that, no action would attend, And but for this, were active to no end. — Pope. AGE. — What is age, QUESTIONS REQUIRING... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1859 - عدد الصفحات: 330
...govern all ; And to their proper operation still Ascribe all good, to their improper — ilL Self-love, the spring of motion, acts the soul ; Reason's comparing...could attend, And but for this were active to no end ; Fix'd like a plant on his peculiar spot, To draw nutrition, propagate and rot ; Or, meteor-like,... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1860 - عدد الصفحات: 60
...proper operation still Ascribe all good, to their improper ill. Self-love, the spring of motion, aets the soul ; Reason's comparing balance rules the whole....attend ; And, but for this, were active to no end : Fix'd like a plant on his peculiar spot, To draw nutrition, propagate, and rot ; Or, meteor-like,... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1860 - عدد الصفحات: 632
...govern all; And to their proper operation still, Ascribe all good, to their improper, ill. Self-love, the spring of motion, acts the soul Reason's comparing balance rules the whole. 60 Man, but for that, no action could atlend, And. but for this, were active to no end: Fix'd like... | |
| Jacob Lowres - 1862 - عدد الصفحات: 192
...that is good, and to their improper, all that is evil. EXERCISE. Continuation of the above. Self-love, the spring of motion, acts the soul; Reason's comparing balance rules the whole; Man, but for that, could to no action tend, And but for this, were active to no end, Pix'd like a plant to his peculiar... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1863 - عدد الصفحات: 334
...govern all ; And to their proper operation still Ascribe all good, to their improper — ill. Self-love, the spring of motion, acts the soul ; Reason's comparing...could attend, And but for this were active to no end ; Fix'd like a plant on his peculiar spot, To draw nutrition, propagate, and rot ; VOL. II. 4 Or, meteor-like,... | |
| George Payn Quackenbos - 1865 - عدد الصفحات: 476
...differently but end alike. It is exemplified at the close' of the following lincs : — " Self-love, the spring of motion, acts the soul; Reason's comparing balance rules the whole." A Distich, or couplet, consists of two verses rhyming together ; the lincs just given are an example.... | |
| 1866 - عدد الصفحات: 328
...govern all ; And to then- proper operation still Ascribe all good, to their improper — ill. Self-love, the spring of motion, acts the soul ; Reason's comparing...could attend, And but for this were active to no end ; Fix'd like a plant on his peculiar spot, To draw nutrition, propagate, and rot ; VOL. n. 4 Or, meteor-like,... | |
| Henry George Bohn - 1867 - عدد الصفحات: 752
...Jonson, Cynthia' t Eev. Thou, who lov'st but what nothing loves, And that's thyself. Dryden. Self-love the spring of motion, acts the soul ; Reason's comparing...could attend, And, but for this, were active to no end : Fix'd like a plant on his peculiar spot, To draw nutrition, propagate, and rot ; Or, meteor-like,... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1867 - عدد الصفحات: 520
...Ascribe all good ; to their improper, ill. Self-love, the spring of motion, acts the soul; Season's comparing balance rules the whole. Man, but for that,...could attend, And but for this, were active to no end : Fix'd like a plant on his peculiar spot, To draw nutrition, propagate, and rot ; Or, meteor-like,... | |
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