 Man, but for that, no action could attend, And, but for this, were active to no end: Fix'd like a plant on his peculiar spot, To draw nutrition, propagate, and rot: Or, meteor-like, flame lawless through the void, Destroying others, by himself destroy'd.  An essay on man [by A. Pope]. With some humourous verses on the death of ... - Page 10by Alexander Pope - 1736 - 32 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Alexander Pope - 1847 - 524 pages
...Warburtnn. Ver. 59. acts the soul ;] acts, for actuates. — Bowles. VOL. IV. F Man, but for that, no action could attend, And, but for this, were active to no...nutrition, propagate, and rot ; Or, meteor-like, flame lawless through the void, 65 Destroying others, by himself destroy'd. Most strength the moving principle... | |
 | Alexander Pope, William Charles Macready - 1849 - 646 pages
...of motion, acts the soul ; Reason's comparing balance rules the whole. Man, but for that, no action could attend, And, but for this, were active to no...nutrition, propagate, and rot ; Or, meteor-like, flame lawless through the void, Most strength the moving principle requires : Active its task, it prompts,... | |
 | William Mudford - 1849 - 356 pages
...Miserable negative ! Why, "the fat weed that roots itself in ease on Lethe wharf," does as much. " Fix'd like a plant on his peculiar spot. To draw nutrition, propagate, and rot." No! your true hero is he for whom his father has done nothing, but beget him; his mother nothing, but... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1850 - 94 pages
...of motion, acts the soul; Reason's comparing balance rules the whole. Man, but for that, no. action could attend, And , but for this , were active to...nutrition , propagate , and rot; Or, meteor-like , flame lawless thro' the void , Destroying others, by himself destroy'd. Most strength the moving principle... | |
 | English poetry - 1852 - 874 pages
...of motion, acts the seal; Reason's comparing balance rules the whole. 'an, but for that, no action half shut out the beams of Phoebus bright And made a kind lawless through the void, Destroying others, by himself destroy'd. Most strength the moving principle... | |
 | George Frederick Graham - English literature - 1852 - 570 pages
...whole. 60 Man, but for that, no action could attend, And, but for this, were active to no end. Fixed like a plant on his peculiar spot, To draw nutrition, propagate, and rot ; Or, meteor-like, flame lawless through the void, 65 Destroying others, by himself destroyed. Most strength the moving principle... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1853 - 336 pages
...motion, acts the soul ; Reason's comparing balance rules the whole. 60 Man, but for that, no action could attend, And, but for this, were active to no...nutrition, propagate, and rot : Or, meteor-like, flame lawless through the void, fc'fi Destroying others,, by himself destroy'd. Most strength the moving... | |
 | Entries - Clergy - 1853 - 320 pages
...made ? Is all that was intended by his intellectual and moral attributes accomplished, when he is ' Fix'd like a plant on his peculiar spot, To draw nutrition, propagate, and rot ? ' If so, to what purpose are these powers ? Is there not waste on the part of the Giver, and burdensome... | |
 | House of Refuge (Philadelphia, Pa.) - Juvenile delinquency - 1855 - 176 pages
...desired effect. SECTION I. Reason's comparing balance rules the whole, Man, but for that, no action could attend, And, but for this, were active to no...draw nutrition, propagate, and rot; Or, meteor-like, name lawless through the void, Destroying others, by himself destroy'd. — POPE. Ignorance is a cause... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1856 - 352 pages
...motion, acts the soul ; Reason's comparing balance rules the whole. eo Man, but for that, no action could attend, And, but for this, were active to no...nutrition, propagate, and rot ; Or, meteor-like, flame lawless through the void, Destroying others, by himself dcstroy'd. Most strength the moving principle... | |
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