 | Craufurd Tait Ramage - 1884 - 694 pàgines
...Pope (" Essay on Man," Ep. ii. 1. 101) thus speaks:— " Rut strength of mind is exercise, not rest; The rising tempest puts in act the soul, Parts it...we sail, Reason the card, but passion is the gale." A PLEASING COUNTENANCE. A pleasing countenance is no slight advantage to man. THE MISERARLE. Believe... | |
 | 1916 - 608 pàgines
...ever born anew Shall gain at every birth. Old Andover! THE STUDY OF GERMAN IN AMERICA BY HW CHURCH " On life's vast ocean diversely we sail. Reason the card, but passion is the gale." Six months spent in the Bochum Oberrealschulc as an American exchange teacher, together with three... | |
 | KATE LOUISE ROBERTS - 1922 - 1422 pàgines
...draw nutrition, propagate and rot. POPE— Essay on Man. Ep. II. L. 63. (See also As You LIKE IT) 5 ." PLUTARCH— Life of Cato the Censor. 4 The government will take the fairest of POPE— Essay on Man. Ep. II. L. 107. e Like bubbles on the sea of matter borne, They rise, they break,... | |
 | Oswald Doughty - 1922 - 488 pàgines
...reason, must, they said, be suppressed. Pope had set the compass for them as usual when he wrote : On life's vast ocean diversely we sail, Reason the card, but Passion is the gale.1 So they made up their minds that for them the voyage of life should be no " voyage perilous... | |
 | Thomas Kendrick Slade - 1923 - 200 pàgines
...II., Sec. III. we can find the modern position neatly presented by Pope in his Essay on Man : — " On life's vast ocean diversely we sail " Reason the card, but Passion is the gale."i Freud's views upon this matter are expressed very tersely : " The hysterical attack, then,... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1926 - 306 pàgines
..._breast ; But_strength of mind is Exercise, not Rest: v Thensing tempest puts in act tne"souI7~ 105 Nor God alone in the still calm we find, He mounts the storms, and walks upon the windy Passions, like elements, tho' born to fight, Yet, mix'd and soften'd,... | |
 | Valerie Rumbold - 1989 - 342 pàgines
...fix'd as in a frost, Comracted alL retiring to the hreast; But strength of mind is Exerrise, not Rest: The rising tempest puts in act the souL Parts it may ravage, hut preserves the whole. On life's vast ocean diversely we saiL Reason the card, hut Passion is the... | |
 | Kenneth Elliott Bock - 1994 - 156 pàgines
...drives, and propensities are really what makes the world go. Alexander Pope made the point nicely: "On life's vast ocean diversely we sail, / Reason the card, but passion is the gale." " If, then, some social outcomes of human activity are not to be traced to rational plans, if a structure... | |
 | Stephen J. Hoch, Howard C. Kunreuther - 2002 - 352 pàgines
...some emotional element. The trick is to understand the impact of emotions to make better decisions. 17 On life's vast ocean diversely we sail, Reason the card, but passion is the gale. — Alexander Pope, Essay on Man Decision makers are not completely logical machines that sift through... | |
 | William Stafford - 2002 - 266 pàgines
...condition of, or at least may contribute to, great achievements, agreeing as it were with Pope's couplet, 'On life's vast ocean diversely we sail; / Reason the card, but passion is the gale'.121 Reason's map will get us nowhere without the driving forces of passion, of which sensibility... | |
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tis fix'd as in a frost ; Contracted all, retiring to the breast ; But strength of mind is exercise, not rest : The rising tempest puts in act the soul ; Parts it may ravage, but preserves the whole. On life's vast ocean diversely we sail, Reason the... 
