 | Alexander Pope - 1736 - 64 pages
...A1! this dread ORDER break---For whom ? For thee ! Vile Worm !— O Madnefs ! Pride ! Impiety ! 250 What if the Foot, ordain'd the Duft to tread, Or Hand to toil, afpir'd to be the Head ? What if the Head, the Eye, or Ear, repin'd To ferve mere Engines to the ruling Mind ? Juft as abfurd,... | |
 | William Warburton - 1742 - 220 pages
...would make in our Frame, if the Members were fct upon invading each other's Office: What if the Poor, ordain'd the Duft to tread, Or Hand to toil, afpir'd to be the Head? &c. Juft as abfurd, for any Part to claim To be another in this gen'ral Frame : Juft as abfurd, to... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1752 - 378 pages
...Let ruling Angels from their fpheres be hurl'd, Being on Being wreck'd, and world on world j Heav'ns whole foundations to their centre nod, 255 And Nature...throne of God. All this dread ORDER break — for whom f for thee ? Vile worm ! — oh Madnefs ! Pride ! Impiety ! IX. What if the foot, ordain'd the duft... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1754 - 238 pages
...The poet, throughout VARIATIONS. VER. 238. Ed. ift. Ethereal eflence, fpirit, fubftance, man. Heav'ns whole foundations to their centre nod, 255 And Nature...trembles to the throne of God. All this dread ORDER break—for whom ? for thee ? Vile worm !—oh Madnefs! Pride! Impiety ! IX. What if the foot, ordain'd... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1762 - 370 pages
...wreck'd , and world on world ; Heav'ns whole foundations to their centre nod , 255 And Nature tremble to the throne of God. All this dread ORDER break —...to tread, Or hand, to toil, afpir'd to be the head? 26» Juft as abfurd, to mourn the tasks or pains, 26$ The great directing MIND of all ordains. All... | |
 | Art - 1762 - 290 pages
...beautifully reprefents the extravagance, madnefs, and pride, of man's defuing to be other than what he is. What if the foot, ordain'd the duft to tread, Or hand to toil, afpir'd to be the head ? What if the head, the eye, or ear repin'd To ferve mere engines to the ruling mind ? Juft as abfurd... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1762 - 160 pages
...wreck' d, and world on world > Heav'n's whole foundations to their Centre nod , And Nature tremble, to the throne of God! All this dread ORDER break ! — For whom ? for thee , Vile Worm! — 0 Madnefs! Pride! Impiety WHAT if the foot, ordain 'd the duß to tread, Or hand to toil, afpir'd... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1763 - 150 pages
...its proLet ruling Angels from their fpheres be hurl'd, Being on Being wreck'd, and world on- world ; Heav'n's whole foundations to their centre nod, 255...Pride! Impiety! IX. What if the foot, ordain'd the duftto tread, Or hand, to toil, afpir'd to be the head ? 260 What if the head, the eye, or ear repin'd... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1763 - 154 pages
...its proLet ruling Angels from their fpheres be hurl'd, Being on Being wreck'd, and world on world ; Heav'n's whole foundations to their centre nod, 255...dread ORDER break — for whom? for thee! Vile worm ! — ohJVladnefs ; Pride ! Impiety ! (IX. What if the foot, ordain'd the duft to tread, Or hand, to... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1763 - 150 pages
...its proLet ruling Angels from their fpheres be hurl'd, Being on Being wreck'd, and world on world ; Heav'n's whole foundations to their centre nod, 255...God. All this dread ORDER break — for whom ? for theel Vile worm! — oh Madnefs; Pride! Impiety' IX. What if the foot, ordain'd the duft to tread,... | |
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To serve mere engines to the ruling mind ? Just as absurd for any part to claim To be another in this... 
