 | William Peter - 1847 - 568 pàgines
...Prometheus temper'd into paste, And, mix'd with living streams, the godlike image cast. Thus, while the mute creation downward bend Their sight, and to their earthly mother tend, Man looks а!оП, and with erected eyes Beholds his own hereditary skies. From such rude principles our form... | |
 | Sallust, Lucius Annaeus Florus, Velleius Paterculus - 1852 - 584 pàgines
...homini sublime dedit, coelumque tueri Jnssit, et erectos ad sidera tollere vultus." " while the mute creation downward bend Their sight, and to their earthly...with erected eyes Beholds his own hereditary skies." Drgden. Which Milton (Par. L. vii., 502) has paraphrased : " There wanted yet the master-work, the... | |
 | John Dryden - 1852 - 378 pàgines
...temper' d into paste, 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. The sun first heard it, in his early east, And met the rattling echoes in the west. The waters, list'ning... | |
 | Gaius Sallustius Crispus - 1852 - 582 pàgines
...sublime dedit, coelumque tueri Jussit, et erectos ad sidera tollere vnltus." " — — while the mute creation downward bend Their sight, and to their earthly...with erected eyes Beholds his own hereditary skies." Dryden. Which Milton (Par. L. vii., 502) has paraphrased: " There wanted yet the master-work, the end... | |
 | Bible Christians - 1854 - 978 pàgines
...A creature of a more exalted kind Was wanting yet ; and then was Man designed. Time while the mute creation downward bend Their sight, and to their earthly...with erected eyes Beholds his own hereditary skies." DEYBEN. But let him who is Lord of the creation, remember, that he is not only subject to God, but... | |
 | John Forster - 1854 - 572 pàgines
...of a single word he puts a Christian elevation and grandenr into the noble thought of the old Pagan, Man looks aloft, and with erected eyes Beholds his own hereditary skies, Ov. Met. i. line 13. deserves to be not less celebrated. J foswett, v. 264, and see vi. 96. VoL. II.... | |
 | William Peter - 1856 - 590 pàgines
...Prometheus temper'd into paste, 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. From such rude principles our form began, And earth was metamorphosed into man. GOLDÏM AOE. THE golden... | |
 | George Smith - 1856 - 546 pàgines
...Prometheus temper'd into paste, 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. From such rude principles our form began And earth was metamorphosed into man." Metamorphoscs, book... | |
 | 1857 - 652 pàgines
...surpass the original." — P. 143. " Z>ryden's two lines surpass those of Ovid : " Os homini," &c. " Man looks aloft, and with erected eyes, Beholds his own HEREDITARY skies." " Several friends of mine have seen that extraordinary woman, Mrs. Anne Moore, often mentioned in the... | |
 | M. M. Kalisch - 1858 - 554 pàgines
...thought, of more capacious breast, For empire form'd, and fit to rale the rest:.... Thus, while the whole creation downward bend Their sight, and to their earthly...erected eyes, Beholds his own hereditary skies." And he alludes to the divine origin of man with corresponding terras of admiration : " Whether the framer... | |
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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. 
