 | John Oldham - 1854 - 284 pages
...the rest ? * Chaos of thought and passion, all confused, Still by himself abused, and disabused — Sole judge of truth, in endless error hurled, The glory, jest, and riddle of the world. — POPE. 214 EIGHTH SATIRE OF M. BOILEAU, IMITATED. Whom they all spurn, and whom they all... | |
 | 1858 - 596 pages
...that of his friends. He seems to illustrate individually Pope's description of man collectively— Sole judge of truth, in endless error hurled, The glory, jest, and riddle of the world. For, while every man pays homage to his powers of reasoning, no man acquiesces in the justice... | |
 | 1858 - 594 pages
...of his friends. He seems to illustrate individually Pope's description of man collectively— Role judge of truth, in endless error hurled, The glory, jest, and riddle of the world. For, while every man pays homage to his powers of reasoning, no man acquiesces in the justice... | |
 | James Smith - 1860 - 460 pages
...passion all confused, Still by himself abused or disabused : Created part to rise and part to fall, Great lord of all things, yet a slave to all ; Sole judge...error hurled — The glory, jest, and riddle of the world." The writer never heard him allude to his deformed foot except upon one occasion, when, entering... | |
 | George Augustus Sala, Edmund Yates - 1874 - 588 pages
...himself abused or disabused; Created half to rise, or half to fall, Great lord of all things, yet a prey to all ; Sole judge of truth, in endless error hurled, The glory, jest, and riddle of the world." It is in this way, if by no means always in so epigrammatical arid finished a fashion, that... | |
 | John Antrobus (essayist.) - 1862 - 150 pages
...himself abused or disabused; Created half to rue and half to fall, Great Lord of all things, yet a Prey to all ; Sole Judge of Truth, in endless Error hurled, The Glory, Jest, and Eiddle of the World. HOPE.— FBOM THE SAME. Hope humbly then, with trembling pinions soar, Wait the... | |
 | John Bartlett - 1865 - 504 pages
...f From Charron (de la Sagcsse): — " La vrayc science et Le vray utude de I'hommc c'est 1'homme." Sole judge of truth, in endless error hurled ; The glory, jest, and riddle of the world.* Epistle ii. Line 13 Fix'd like a plant on his peculiar spot, To draw nutrition, propagate,... | |
 | 1868 - 418 pages
...abused or disabused ; Created half to rise, and half to fall, Great lord of all things, yet a prey to all ; Sole judge of truth, in endless error hurled, The glory, jest, and riddle of the world !" The physician should also, I think, be a man of parts, and versed in the polite learning of... | |
 | William Davis (B.A.) - 1869 - 200 pages
...abused or disabused ; Created half to rise and half to fall ; Great lord of all things, yet a prey to all ; Sole judge of truth, in endless error hurled : The glory, jest, and riddle of the world. Essay on Man. A LESSON OF THANKFULNESS. HOPE springs, eternal in the human breast ; Man never... | |
 | Treasury - 1869 - 474 pages
...abused or disabused ; Created half to rise, and half to fall ; Great lord of all things, yet a prey to all ; Sole judge of truth, in endless error hurled ; The glory, jest, and riddle of the world.* Epistle ii. Line 13. Fix'd like a plant on his peculiar spot, To draw nutrition, propagate,... | |
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Alike in ignorance, his reason such Whether he thinks too little or too much; Chaos of thought and passion, all confused; Still, by himself abused or disabused; Created half to rise and half to fall; Great lord of all things, yet a prey to all, Sole judge... 
