 Tis but to know how little can be known, To see all others' faults, and feel our own ; Condemn'd in business or in arts to drudge, Without a second, or without a judge. Truths would you teach, or save a sinking land ? All fear, none aid you, and few understand...  Essai sur l'homme - Seite 74von Alexander Pope - 1850 - 82 SeitenVollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | Alexander Pope, William Charles Macready - 1849 - 646 Seiten
...know how little can be known ; To see all others' faults, and feel our own : Condemn'd in business or in arts to drudge, Without a second, or without...judge : Truths would you teach, or save a sinking land 1 All fear, none aid you, and few understand. Painful pre-eminence ! yourself to view Above life's... | |
 | Elihu Goodwin Holland - 1849 - 420 Seiten
...not doomed at times to feel the force of that truth to which Pope has given poetic utterance ? — " Truths would you teach, or save a sinking land ? All fear, none aid you, and few understand." But he well endured the " painful preeminence" to which his wisdom had brought him. He mourned that... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1850 - 510 Seiten
...to know how little can be known, To sec all others' faults, and feel our own ; ^ondemn'd in business or in arts to drudge, Without a second, or without...save a sinking land ' All fear, none aid you, and frw understand fWul pre-eminence ! yourself !o view AboTe life's weakness, and its comforts too. Bring... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - 1896 - 794 Seiten
...'Tis not enough your counsel still be true : Blunt truths more mischief than nice falsehoods do. PorE. Truths would you teach, or save a sinking land ? All...view Above life's weakness, and its comforts too. POPE. Ask you what provocation I have had ? The strong antipathy of good to bad. When truth or virtue... | |
 | 1896 - 1224 Seiten
...the dawning, tongue and pen : Aid it, hopes of honest men ! j. CHARLES MACKAY — Clear the Way. i wake now for thee Was a siren of old who sung under the sea. o. MOORE k. POPE— Essay on Man. Ep. IV. L. 261. In man's most dark extremity Oft succour dawns from Heaven.... | |
 | William Mathews - 1896 - 364 Seiten
...themselves for future enjoyment, by approaching that condition which has been described as a state of — " Painful pre-eminence, yourself to view Above life's weakness, and its comforts too"? Fortunately, all men are not thus constituted. A few there are who, by a happy alchemy, are able to... | |
 | William Mathews - 1896 - 368 Seiten
...themselves for future enjoyment, by approaching that condition which has been described as a state of — " Painful pre-eminence, yourself to view Above life's weakness, and its comforts too " f Fortunately, all men are not thus constituted. A few there are who, by a happy alchemy, are able... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1898 - 120 Seiten
...been doubted. Marcellus was assassinated at Athens on his way home " (WARD). Condemned in business or in arts to drudge, Without a second, or without...judge: Truths would you teach, or save a sinking land? 255 All fear, none aid you, and few understand. Painful preeminence! yourself to view Above life's... | |
 | 1898 - 584 Seiten
...permitted it, to the root of the evil ; but remein' ber, dear child, ' " Truths would you teach, and save a sinking land, All fear, none aid you, and few understand." ' The prejudices of some, the interests of others, the fears of ' still more, and the indolence, indifference,... | |
 | Vere Foster - 1898 - 692 Seiten
...physician permitted it, to the root of the evil — but remember, dear child, " Truths would you teach and save a sinking land, All fear, none aid you, and few understand ". The prejudices of some, the interests of others, the fears of still more, and the indolence, indifference,... | |
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