| 1872 - 710 pàgines
...Prometheus tempered into paste, And, mixt with living streams, the god-like image cast. [1хдк1 506 MAN. From euch rude principles our 'form began, And earth was metamorphosed into man. Oeii!, tr. by John... | |
| Ezra Hall Gillett - 1874 - 428 pàgines
...of his aspirations is justified : * Art of Love, B. 1, Dryden's Trana. PEOVIDENCE AND JUSTICE. 235 "Man looks aloft, and with erected eyes Beholds his own hereditary skies."* In the exposition of the Pythagorean philosophy, his immortality is elaborately argued and vindicated,... | |
| Samuel Austin Allibone - 1875 - 794 pàgines
...from this turmoil set free, That peaceful and divine assembly see. SIR J. DENHAM. Thus while the mute creation downward bend Their sight, and to their earthly...with erected eyes Beholds his own hereditary skies. DRYDEN. As if there were degrees in infinite, And Heav'n itself had rather want perfection Than punish... | |
| Alfred John Church - 1876 - 356 pàgines
...of milky whiteness, whence its name." * Two lines of Dryden's version are here worth quoting : — " Man looks aloft, and with erected eyes Beholds his own hereditary skies." He inveighs against the enormities of man, recounting what he had himself witnessed when he had —... | |
| Robert Aitkin Bertram - 1877 - 766 pàgines
...Resolves ; and re-resolves ; then dies the same. Young. 2378. MAN. Distinction of THUS while the mute creation downward bend Their sight, and to their earthly...with erected eyes Beholds his own hereditary skies. — Dryden. 2379. MAN : easily pleased. BEHOLD the child by nature's kindly law Pleased with a rattle,... | |
| Catherine Ann White - 1877 - 466 pàgines
...cast. Thus, while the mute creation downward bend Their sight, and to their earthly mother tend, 15 Man looks aloft, and with erected eyes Beholds his own hereditary- skies. From such rude principles our form began, And earth was metamorphosed into man." — Ibid. HOUSE OF... | |
| Samuel Austin Allibone - 1878 - 788 pàgines
...from this turmoil set free, That peaceful and divine assembly see. SIR J. DENHAM. Thus while the mute creation downward bend Their sight, and to their earthly...with erected eyes Beholds his own hereditary skies. DRYDEN. As if there were degrees in infinite, And Heav'n itself had rather want perfection Than punish... | |
| Leigh Hunt - 1879 - 252 pàgines
...Dryden's translation falls short, except in one epithet suggested by his creed : " Thus, while the mute creation downward bend Their sight, and to their earthly...with erected eyes Beholds his own hereditary skies." This is good ; and the last line is noble, both in structure and idea ; but the phrase " man looks... | |
| Arthur B. Davison - 1880 - 396 pàgines
...hath yet to begin the alphabet Of man. Sir Thos. Browne, Religio Medici. MAN. THUS, while the whole creation downward bend Their sight, and to their earthly...with erected eyes Beholds his own hereditary skies. Dryden — Ovid, Metam., bi MAN. BEASTS are the subjects of tyrannic sway, Where still the stronger... | |
| 1884 - 540 pàgines
...thought, of more capacious breast, For empire formed, and fit to rule the rest. ,. . Thus while the whole creation downward bend Their sight, and to their earthly mother tend, Man louks aloft ; and, with erected еуея, Beholds his own hereditary skies. Dyria fel y canodd un o'r... | |
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