 | John Dryden, Walter Scott - 1885 - 516 pàgines
...the god-like image cast. Thus, while the mute creation downward bend Their sight, and to their earthy mother tend, Man looks aloft, and, with erected eyes, , Beholds his own hereditary skies. — no From such rude principles our form began, And earth was metamorphosed into man. THE GOLDEN AGE.... | |
 | James Boswell - 1887 - 512 pàgines
...and strong utterance. His mode of speaking was indeed very impressive5; and I wish it could be 1 ' Man looks aloft, and with erected eyes, Beholds his own hereditary skies.' DRYDEN, Ovid, Meta. \. 85. a Hannah More (Memoirs, i. 213) says that she was made 'the umpire in a... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - 1889 - 592 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. MALICE OP FORTUNE. {The Atlot,... | |
 | William Warren Vernon - 1889 - 524 pàgines
...things above, not on things on the earth." Ovid, Met. I, 84, Dryden's Translation : Thus, while the mute creation downward bend Their sight, and to their earthly...with erected eyes Beholds his own hereditary skies. Beaumont and Fletcher, The Laws of Candv, IV, I : Seldom despairing men look up to heaven, Although... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - 1889 - 590 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. MALICE OP FORTUNE. (Tht Atlas,... | |
 | Dante Alighieri - 1893 - 844 pàgines
...attract the falcon on the wing. 148. Ovid, Mftamorfh., I., Dryden's Tr. :— " Thus, while the mute creation downward bend Their sight, and to their earthly...with erected eyes Beholds his own hereditary skies." 150. Beaumont and Fletcher, The Laws of Candy, IV. I : — " Seldom despairing men look up to heaven,... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - 1896 - 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... | |
 | James Boswell - 1901 - 502 pàgines
...Robert (1728-1792) and James (d. 1794) Adam, the architects. 1 1 8. Us homini. Ovid. Metam. I. 85. " Man looks aloft, and with erected eyes Beholds his own hereditary skies." — Dryden. 124. A gentleman -whose extraordinary travels. James Bruce (1730-1794), the Abyssinian... | |
 | Dante Alighieri - 1904 - 500 pàgines
...the falcon on the wing. 148. Ovid, "Metamorphoses," i., Dryden's translation: Thus, while the mute creation downward bend Their sight, and to their earthly...with erected eyes Beholds his own hereditary skies. 150. Beaumont and Fletcher, " The Laws of Candy," iv. i: Seldom despairing men look up to heaven, Although... | |
 | Voltaire, Tobias Smollett - 1904 - 356 pàgines
...caelumque tueri Jussit, et erectos ad sidera tollere vultus. METAM., i, v. 84. 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. —DRYDEN. Hesiod, and other... | |
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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. 
