 | 1822 - 148 pàgines
...it is most probably the source from whence they were derived. The lines are these: " Self love bnt serves the virtuous mind to wake, As the small pebble stirs the peaceful lake, The centre moved, a circle straight succeeds, Another still, and still another spreads, Friend, parent, neighbour... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1822 - 370 pàgines
...Charity. 360 God loves from Whole to Parts : But human soul Must rise from Individual to the Whole. Self-love but serves the virtuous mind to wake, As the small pebble stirs the peaceful lake ; NOTES. Ver. 360. but height of Charity.} " To prove that the dispensations of Providence in the present... | |
 | 1823 - 832 pàgines
...described by Pope: As the small pebble stirs the peaceful lake, The centre moved, a circle straight succeeds; Another still, and still another spreads...first it will embrace, His country next, and next ail human race. His father Lad died suddenly and intestate ; a new lease of the farm had been obtained... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1823 - 716 pàgines
...human soul Must rise from individual to the whole. Self-love but serves the virtuous mind to waki», As the small pebble stirs the peaceful lake : The centre mov'd, a circle straight succeeds ; Another still, and still another spreads. Friend, parent, neighbour, first it will... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1823 - 236 pàgines
...these Benevolence. God loves from whole to parts but human soul Must rise from individual to the whole Self-love but serves the virtuous mind to wake As the small pebble strrs the peaceful lake The centre mov da circle straight succeeds Another still and still another... | |
 | Jesse Torrey - 1824 - 308 pàgines
...of charity. 48 God loves from whole to parts; but human soul Must rise from individual to the whole. Self-love but serves the virtuous mind to wake, As...stirs the peaceful lake; The centre mov'd, a circle straight succeeds, Another still, and still another spreads: Friend, parent, neighbor, first it will... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1824 - 1062 pàgines
...charity. God loves from whole to parts : but human soul Must rise from individual to the whole. Sel f-love is Apollo's eon : But it shall ne'er be said, a child...hopeful has by me been spoil'd ; I have enough besi straight succeeds, Another still, and still another spreads; Friend, parent, neighbour, first it will... | |
 | Thomas Brown - 1824 - 490 pàgines
...moral affections ; it is not any self-love, reflecting on the enjoyments that are thus to be obtained. Self-love but serves the virtuous mind to wake, As...small pebble stirs the peaceful lake ; The centre moved, a circle straight succeeds ; Another still, and still another spreads : Friend, parent, neighbour,... | |
 | Thom Scott - 1824 - 622 pàgines
...own supposed good ; according to Mr. Pope's -system in his Essay on Man : ' Self love but serves tbe virtuous mind to wake, As the small pebble stirs the peaceful lake ; The centre mov'd, a circle straight succeeds, Another still, and still another spreads ; 1 Rev. ill. 18. '1 Ret. 10. Friend, patent,... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1824 - 422 pàgines
...charity. 360 God loves from whole to parts; but human soul Must rise from individual to the whole. Self-love but serves the virtuous mind to wake, As the small pebble stirs the peaceful lake ; COMMENTARY. could convert selfishness into its very opposite ; and therefore teacheth that " Self-love... | |
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Self-love but serves the virtuous mind to wake, As the small pebble stirs the peaceful lake ; The centre moved, a circle straight succeeds, Another still, and still another spreads ; Friend, parent, neighbour, first it will embrace; His country next,... 
