 | Voltaire - 1824 - 448 pàgines
...ccelumque tueri Jussitj et erectos ad sidera tollere vultns. Metam. i. V. 84. Thus, while the mute creation downward bend Their sight, and to their earthly mother tend, Man loots aloft, and with erected eyes Beholds his own hereditary skies. DRTDEN. Hesiod, and other writers... | |
 | John Wesley - 1827 - 548 pàgines
...moulding up a mass in shape like our's, Form'da bright image of th' all-ruling powers. And while the mute creation downward bend Their sight, and to their earthly...with erected eyes, Beholds his own hereditary skies. " Now if man was formed in the image of God, certainly he was a holy and a happy being. But what is... | |
 | 1828 - 472 pàgines
...something more — for his goodness ; and here we have one of its brightest displays. Thus, while Ihe mute creation downward bend Their sight, and to their earthly...with erected eyes, Beholds his own hereditary skies. DRYDEN. Obliquity of the Ecliptic. Most of our readers are already aware, that by this expression is... | |
 | Thomas Curtis - 1829 - 806 pàgines
...son (hall be legitimate- and heritable, according to the laws of England.1 Haie. Thus while the mute creation downward bend Their sight, and to their earthly...with erected eyes Beholds his own hereditary skies. Dryden'i Omd. When heroic verse his youth shall raise, And form it to hereditary praise. Id. Virgil.... | |
 | Thomas Curtis (of Grove house sch, Islington) - 826 pàgines
...son shall be legitimate and •eriteUf, according to the laws of England. Hale. Thus while the mute creation downward bend Their sight, and to their earthly mother tend. Man tat» aloft, and with erected eyes Beholds his own hereditary skies. Dryderii Grid. Wjien heroic verse... | |
 | Adam Clarke - 1831 - 334 pàgines
...thought, of more capacious breast, For empire formed, and fit to rule the rest:— Thus while the mute creation downward bend Their sight, and to their earthly...with erected eyes Beholds his own hereditary skies.' Dryden. " The material part of the earth is adapted to nourish and maintain the vegetable world, and... | |
 | John Dryden - 1832 - 338 pàgines
...temper'd into paste, 105 And, mixt with living streams, the godlike image cast Thus, while the mute creation downward bend Their sight, and to their earthly...with erected eyes Beholds his own hereditary skies. no From such rude principles our form began, And earth was metamorphos'd into man. THE GOLDEN AGE.... | |
 | Ovid - 1833 - 330 pàgines
...temper'd into paste, 105 And, mix'd with living streams, the godlike image cast. Thus, while the mute creation downward bend Their sight, and to their earthly...with erected eyes Beholds his own hereditary skies. 110 From such rude principles our form began, And earth was metamorphosed into man. GOLDEN AGE. DIRING... | |
 | Edward Nares - 1834 - 366 pàgines
...literally, rendered into English, by Dryden, that I cannot refrain from copying them. " Thus while the mute creation, downward bend Their sight, and to their...with erected eyes, Beholds his own hereditary skies !" Of which passage in the original, nobody has made more, than that very eloquent, though oftentimes... | |
 | Edward Augustus Kendall - 1835 - 482 pàgines
...uninmliii caetera terrain, Os sublime dedit, calumque tueri Jussit, et erectos ad sidera tollere vail us ;' thus distinguishing men from beasts by their erect...; Man looks aloft, and, with erected eyes, Beholds bis own hereditary skies ;' — and he elsewhere makes use of it again ; though still, as will be observed,... | |
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Thus, while the mute creation downward bend Their sight, and to their earthly mother tend, Man looks aloft, and with erected eyes Beholds his own hereditary skies. 
