 | 1906 - 810 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 ! POPE, Essay on Man, Epistle ii, lines 13-18 See how the world its veterans rewards ! A youth... | |
 | Stephen Paget - 1909 - 264 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. Go, wondrous creature I Mount where science guides, Go, measure earth, weigh air, and state... | |
 | Alphonso Gerald Newcomer, Alice Ebba Andrews - 1910 - 778 pages
...abused, or disabused; Created half to rise, and half to fall; Great lord of all things, yet a prey le-End, mother? Mint. Mrr. No. Michiiel. not all the world, ;boy; but I can assure thee. world! Oo, wondrous creature; mount where science guides, Go, measure earth, weigh air, and state the... | |
 | Henry George Bohn - 1911 - 784 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. 3059 Pope : Essay on Man. Epis. ii. Line 13. Know, Nature's children all divide her care ; The... | |
 | Stephen Paget - 1911 - 132 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. Forgive me, but you are too young to care for Pope : you take more pleasure in a poet of your... | |
 | Walter Jerrold, Robert Maynard Leonard - 1913 - 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... | |
 | 1913 - 264 pages
...the sport of men. Byron : Don Juan. Men are but children of a larger growth. Dryden: All for Love. Sole judge of truth, in endless error hurled; The glory, jest, and riddle of the world. Pope: Essay on Man. Know then thyself, presume not God to scan, The proper study of mankind... | |
 | Charles Edward Locke - 1914 - 320 pages
...himself abused and 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. — Alexander Pope. CHAPTER II WHAT IS MAN? ASTRONOMY is the oldest of the sciences. In the... | |
 | Louis Reeves Harrison - 1916 - 170 pages
...still feels that he is "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." What sensitive human plant lives without consciousness of an invisible and fatal power that... | |
 | William Joseph Long - 1917 - 588 pages
...mankind is man. . . . 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. POPE'S ESSAY ON MAN 153 Throughout the poem these two doctrines of Deism are kept in sight :... | |
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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... 
