| Hippolyte Adolphe Taine - 1871 - 570 頁
...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, his reason such, Whether he thinks...prey to all ; Sole judge of truth, in endless error hurled, The glory, jest, and riddle of the world. ' ' The first verse epitomises the whole of the preceding... | |
| Hippolyte Taine - 1871 - 586 頁
...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, his reason such, Whether he thinks...prey to all; Sole judge of truth, in endless error hurled, The glory, jest, and riddle of the world.' ' The first verse epitomises the whole of the preceding... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1872 - 744 頁
...god, or beast ; In doubt his mind or body to prefer ; Born but to die, and reas'ning but to err ; 10 Alike in ignorance, his reason such, Whether he thinks...hurl'd : The glory, jest, and riddle of the world ! 1 1 ' Glory, jest, and riddle of the world : ' Pascal in his ' Pensecs ' has a thought almost identical... | |
| 1872 - 660 頁
...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, his reason such, Whether he thinks...prey to all ; Sole judge of truth, in endless error hurled^; The glory, jest, and riddle of the world ! Go, wondrous creature ! mount where Science guides;... | |
| Willoughby Jones - 1872 - 516 頁
...a god, or beast ; In doubt his mind or body to prefer ; Born but to die, and reasoning but to err ; Alike in ignorance, his reason such, Whether he thinks...prey to all ; Sole judge of truth, in endless error hurPd; The glory, jest, and, riddle of the world 1" Social Relations. Much of the crime in New York... | |
| English poetry - 1873 - 390 頁
...thought and passion, all coufus'd ; Still by himself abused or disabus'd ; Created half to rise or half to fall ; Great lord of all things, yet a prey...hurl'd : The glory, jest, and riddle of the world ! ****** Know, then, this truth (enough for man to know) " Virtue alone is happiness below," The only... | |
| Stopford Augustus Brooke - 1874 - 396 頁
...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, his reason such, Whether he thinks...hurl'd ; The glory, jest, and riddle of the world. There is no passion and there is no personal feeling. Now listen to this in which both these elements... | |
| John Bartlett - 1874 - 798 頁
...The proper study of mankind is man.1 Epistle ii. Line 1. Chaos of thought and passion, all confus'd ; Still by himself abused or disabused ; Created half...hurl'd ; The glory, jest, and riddle of the world !2 Epistle ii. Line 13. Fix'd like a plant on his peculiar spot, To draw nutrition, propagate, and... | |
| Hippolyte Taine - 1874 - 568 頁
...thinks too little or too much ; Chaos of thought and passion, all confused ; Still by himself abused, pi disabused ; Created half to rise, and half to fall...prey to all ; Sole judge of truth, in endless error hurled, The glory, jest, and riddle of the world.' 1 The first verse epitomises the whole of the preceding... | |
| Jakob Olaus Løkke - 1875 - 556 頁
...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, his reason such, , Whether he...prey to all; Sole judge of truth, in endless error hurled: The glory, jest, and riddle of the world! III. For forms of government let fools contest; Whate'er... | |
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