 | Alexander Pope - 1867 - عدد الصفحات: 626
...govern all ; And to their proper operation still Ascrihe all good, to their improper ill. Self-love, the spring of motion, acts the soul ; Reason's comparing balance rules the whole. 60 Man, b'ut for that, no action could attend ; And, but for this, were active to no end : Fix'd like... | |
 | Ezra Champion Seaman - 1868 - عدد الصفحات: 710
...wants, and the impulses of nature to gratify them. Pope says, — Self-love the spring of action moves the soul, Reason's comparing balance rules the whole....attend, And, but for this, were active to no end. All these capacities and propensities of his nature are given him to be employed, exercised, and gratified,... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1869 - عدد الصفحات: 570
...III. Self-love, the spring of motion, acts4 the soul; Reason's comparing balance rules the whole. 60 Man, but for that, no action 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, flame... | |
 | William Rushton - 1869 - عدد الصفحات: 352
...will ; I will not come. 5. To be contents his natural desire, He asks no angel's wing. 6. Self-love, the spring of motion, acts the soul ; Reason's comparing balance rules the whole. 7. Great Nature spoke ; observant man obeyed ; Cities were formed ; societies were made. 8. Antiquity... | |
 | George Payn Quackenbos - 1871 - عدد الصفحات: 468
...begin differently but end alike. It is exemplified at the close of the following lines:— " Self-love, the spring of motion, acts the soul; Reason's comparing balance rules the wltole." A Distich, or Couplet, consists of two verses rhyming together; the lines just given are an... | |
 | Ephraim Hunt - 1872 - عدد الصفحات: 658
...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...attend ; And, but for this, were active to no end : Fixed like a plant on his peculiar spot, To draw nutrition, propagate, and rot ; Or, meteor-like,... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1872 - عدد الصفحات: 744
...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. eo Man, but for that, no action could attend, And, but for this, were active to no end : Fix'd like... | |
 | Arthur Hoffmann - 1913 - عدد الصفحات: 112
...klar wie bei Voltaire ausgedrückt, aber sie schimmern oft recht d eutlich hindurch, z. B. „Seif love'), the spring of motion, acts the soul; Reason's...attend, And, but for this, were active to no end: Fixed like a plant on his peculiar spot, To draw nutrition, propagate, and rot;" Ep. II, v. 59-64.... | |
 | 1913 - عدد الصفحات: 264
...dust, from whence he sprung, Unwept, unhonored, and unsung. Scott: Lay of the Last Minstrel. Self-love, the spring of motion, acts the soul ; Reason's comparing...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, flame... | |
 | Edwin Greenlaw, James Holly Hanford - 1919 - عدد الصفحات: 714
...govern all : And to their proper operation still B Ascribe all good, to their improper, ill. Self-love, m May I expr eE/ : 10 Fix'd like a plant on his peculiar spot, To draw nutrition, propagate, and rot; Or meteor-like,... | |
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Each works its end, to move or 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. Man, but for that, no action could attend,... 
