 KNOW then thyself, presume not God to scan; The proper study of mankind is Man. Placed on this isthmus of a middle state, A being darkly wise, and rudely great: With too much knowledge for the Sceptic side, With too much weakness for the Stoic's pride,...  The Methodist Quarterly Review - Page 2391852Full view - About this book
 | George Augustus Sala, Edmund Yates - 1874 - 588 pages
...great ; With too much knowledge for the sceptic side, With two much weakness for the Stoic's pride, He hangs between ; in doubt to act, or rest ; In doubt to deem himself a god or beast; In doubt his mind or body to prefer ; Bom but to die, and reasoning but to err; Alike in ignorance,... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1860 - 632 pages
...great : With too much knowledge for the sceptic side, With too much weakness for the Stoic's pride, lie hangs between ; in doubt to act, or rest ; In doubt to deem himself a god, or beast ; In doubt his mind or body to prefer; Born bul to die, and reasoning but to err; 'C Alike in ignorance,... | |
 | Henry Southgate - 1862 - 774 pages
...great ; With too much knowledge for the sceptic side, With too much greatness for the stoic's pride ; He hangs between, in doubt to act or rest ; In doubt to deem himself a god or beast ; In doubt bis mind or body to prefer ; Born but to die, and reas'ning but to err ; Alike in ignorance,... | |
 | John Antrobus (essayist.) - 1862 - 150 pages
...much knowledge for the Sceptic side, With too much weakness for the Stoic's pride, He stands aloof — in doubt to act or rest, In doubt to deem himself a God or beast, Doubting his mind or body to prefer, Born but to die, and reasoning but to err. Alike in ignorance,... | |
 | Hippolyte Taine - 1863 - 712 pages
...great : With too much knowledge for the sceptic side, Wich too much weakness for the stoic's pride , He hangs between ; in doubt to act or rest ; In doubt to deem himself a God or beast, In doubt his mind'or body to prefer; Born but to die, and reas' ning but to err; Alike in ignorance,... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1863 - 334 pages
...great ; With too much knowledge for the sceptic side, With too much weakness for the stoic's pride, He hangs between, in doubt to act or rest ; In doubt to deem himself a god or beast ; In doubt his mind or body to prefer ; Born but to die, and reasoning but to err; Alike in ignorance,... | |
 | Mark Hopkins - 1863 - 372 pages
...and passion, conscience and desire, often. seem to be, and are, opposing forces, and man is left " In doubt to act or rest, ......•.•. In doubt to deem himself a god or beast, In doubt his soul or body to prefer." . * •* " The intestine war of reason against the passions,"... | |
 | Rev. Henry Greene - 1866 - 496 pages
...great, With too much knowledge for the sceptic's side, With too much greatness for the stoic's pride, He hangs between in doubt to act or rest, In doubt to deem himself a god or beast. AT a period in comparison with whose vast antiquity the dust of Egyptian monuments is but of yesterday,... | |
 | 1866 - 328 pages
...great ; With too much knowledge for the sceptic side, With too much weakness for the stoic's pride, He hangs between, in doubt to act or rest ; In doubt to deem himself a god or beast ; In doubt his mind or body to prefer ; Born but to die, and reasoning but to err ; Alike in ignorance,... | |
 | Hippolyte Taine - 1866 - 500 pages
...great : With too much knowledge for the sceptic side, With too much weakness for the stoic's pride, He hangs between ; in doubt to act or rest ; In doubt to deem himself a God er beast, In doubt his mind or body to prefer ; Born butto die, and reas'ning but to err; Alike in... | |
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