 | 1842 - 882 Seiten
...divine, Gives thee to make thy neighbour's blessing thine. Seif-!ove but serves the virtuous mind towake, As the small pebble stirs the peaceful lake, The centre...succeeds, Another still, and still another spreads. Frien(l, parent,neighbour tlrst it will embrace; ills country next, and next all human race. Wide,... | |
 | John Monck Mason - 1798 - 494 Seiten
...loves from whole to parts; but human soul Must rise from individuals to the whole. Self-love but serves the virtuous mind to wake, As the small pebble stirs...still, and still another spreads: Friend, parent, neighbour, first it will embrace, His country next, and next all human race; Wide, and more wide, th'... | |
 | Edward Young - 1798 - 432 Seiten
...distinguished from that sordid principle which not only begins but ends in self. ' Self-love but serves the virtuous mind to wake, •As the small pebble...succeeds, * Another still, and still another spreads: ' Krientl, parent, neighbour, first it will embrace, ' His country next; and next all human race.'... | |
 | 1800 - 574 Seiten
...from whole to parts ; but human soul Mtist rise from individuals to the whole. Self-love but serves the virtuous mind to wake, As the small pebble stirs...still, and still another spreads; Friend, parent, neighbour, first it will embrace, His country next, and next all human race ; Wide, and more wide,... | |
 | Ralph Griffiths, George Edward Griffiths - 1800 - 572 Seiten
...loves from whole to parts; but human soul Must rise from individuals to the whole. Self-love but serves the virtuous mind to wake, As the small pebble stirs...succeeds, . Another still, and still another spreads: Fiiend, parent, neighbour, first it will embrace, His country next, and next all human race; Wide,... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1802 - 170 Seiten
...loves from whole to parts but human soul Must rise from individual to the whole Self lore but serves the virtuous mind to wake As the small pebble stirs the peaceful lake The centre mov da circle strait succeeds Another still and still another spreads Friend parent neighbour first... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1804 - 218 Seiten
...loves from whole to parts: but human soul Must rise from individual to the whole. Self-love but serves the virtuous mind to wake, As the small pebble stirs...still, and still another spreads; Friend, parent, neighbour, first it will embrace; His country next, and next all human race; Wide and more wide, th'... | |
 | James Wilson - 1804 - 494 Seiten
...vigorous zeal: we feel delight in the agreeable conception of the improvement and happiness of mankind. The centre mov'd, a circle straight succeeds, Another...still, and still another spreads. Friend, parent, neighbour first it will embrace, His country next, and next all human race ; Wide and more wide, th'... | |
 | 1805 - 420 Seiten
...from whole to parts ; but human soul " Must rise from individual to the whole. " Self love but serves the virtuous mind to wake, " As the small pebble stirs...« Friend, parent, neighbor, first it will embrace ; " His country next, and next, all human race." Pope. In vain we endeavour to think otherwise. In... | |
 | Joseph Warton - 1806 - 536 Seiten
...Johnson. knowledge of men and things, expressed with vigour and conciseness. 51. Self-love but serves the virtuous mind to wake. As the small pebble stirs the peaceful lake.* It is observahle that this similitude, which is to be found in Silius Italicus, 1. xiii. v. 24, and... | |
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the virtuous mind to wake, As the small pebble stirs the peaceful lake ; The centre mov'd, a circle straight succeeds ; Another still, and still another spreads. Friend, parent, neighbor, first it will embrace 
