 Why form'd no weaker, blinder, and no less? Ask of thy mother earth, why oaks are made Taller or stronger than the weeds they shade? Or ask of yonder argent fields above, Why JOVE'S Satellites are less than JOVE?  Essai sur l'homme - Seite 4von Alexander Pope - 1850 - 82 SeitenVollansicht - Über dieses Buch
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...query, according to the Scottish mode of reply, and ask 1 What can we reason but from what we know ? • Ask of thy mother earth, why oaks are made ' Taller or stronger than the weeds they shade ? * Or ask of yonder argent fields above, ' Why Jove's satellites are less than Jove ?" Till these... | |
 | Laconics - 1829 - 358 Seiten
...learn no ill at their weapons ?—Fuller. DCXCH. First, if thou canst, the harder reason guesi 1Why form'd no weaker, blinder, and no less! Ask of thy...made Taller or stronger than the weeds they shade! Or ask of yonder argent fields above Why Jove's satellites are less than Jove. Pope. DCXCIH. Ridicule,... | |
 | John Timbs - 1829 - 354 Seiten
...weak so little and so blind! VoL. II. P % First, if thou canst, the harder reason guess "Why fornVd no weaker, blinder, and no less! Ask of thy mother...made Taller or stronger than the weeds they shade I Or ask of yonder argent fields above Why Jove's satellites are less than Jove. Pope. DCXCII1. Ridicule,... | |
 | Robert Smith - 1829 - 432 Seiten
...England, and 150 in France. A NEAR OBSERVER, No. 3. "Presumptuous man! the reason wouldst thou find, Why form'd so weak, so little, and so blind ? First, if thou canst, the Hbrder reason guess, Why form'd no weaker, blinder, and no less?" When a Boyle and a Newton, treading... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1830 - 500 Seiten
...agree, And drawn supports, upheld by God, or thee II. Presumptuous man! the reason wouldstthou find, nly power) Thy injured honour has its fated hour,...a boundless store. Then let revenge no longer bear ? 40 Or ask of yonder argent fields above, Why Jove's satellites are less than Jove. Of systems possible,... | |
 | John Galt - 1831 - 324 Seiten
...work the metre must be observed. " These lines are in Pope's Essay on Man, ' Ask of thy mother-earth why oaks are made, Taller or stronger than the weeds they shade ! Or ask of yonder argent fields above, Why Jove's satellites are less than Jove." " The word satellites... | |
 | Samuel B. EMMONS - 1832 - 168 Seiten
...agree, And drawn supports, upheld by God, or thee? II. Presumptuous man ; the reason wouldst thou find, Why form'd so weak, so little, and so blind? First,...blinder, and no less! Ask of thy mother earth, why oaks were made Taller or stronger than the weeds they shade? Or ask of yonder argent fields above, Why Jove's... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1832 - 86 Seiten
...form'd so weak, so little, and 30 blind ? First if thou canst, the harder reason guess, Why torm'd no weaker, blinder, and no less ! Ask of thy mother...made Taller or stronger than the weeds they shade ? 40 Or ask of yonder argent fields above, Why Jove's satellites are less than Jove ? Of systems possible,... | |
 | Thomas Ewing - 1832 - 428 Seiten
...drawn supports, upheld by God, or thee ? Presumptuous Man ! the reason wouldst thou find, Why formed so weak, so little, and so blind ? First, if thou canst, the harder reason guess, Why formed no weaker, blinder, and no less. Ask of thy mother Earth, why oaks are made Taller and stronger... | |
 | Robert Blakey - 1833 - 408 Seiten
...with a seasonable portion of sarcasm. " Presumptuous man ! the reason would'st thou find, Why formed so weak, so little, and so blind ! First, if thou...earth why oaks are made, Taller or stronger than the woods they shade ? Or ask of yonder argent fields above, Why Jove's satellites are less than Jove!".... | |
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