 | E. A. ANSLEY - 1849 - Počet stránok 288
...the grave— Legions of angels can't confine me there.",—Young. "Pride still is aiming at the blest abodes, Men would be angels, angels would be gods;...be gods, if angels fell, Aspiring to be angels, men rebel."—Pope. To antithesis belongs also CONTRAST, which places not only the thoughts, but also descriptions... | |
 | Alexander Pope, William Charles Macready - 1849 - Počet stránok 646
...from his hand the balance and the rod, Re-judge his justice, be the GOD of GOD. In pride, in reasoning pride, our error lies; All quit their sphere, and rush into the skies. Pride still is aiming at the blest abodes, Men would be angels, angels would be gods. Aspiring to be gods, if angels fell, Aspiring... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1850 - Počet stránok 510
...Re-judge hia justice, be the god of God. In pride, in reasoning pride, our error lies, All quit the sphere, and rush into the skies. Pride still is aiming...men rebel : And who but wishes to invert the laws Of order, sins against the Eternal Cause. 130 V. Ask for what end the heavenly bodies «hiñe, Earth for... | |
 | Richard Green Parker - 1850 - Počet stránok 466
...and Antithesis are sometimes united, as in the following Example. Pride still is a,ming at the blest abodes, Men would be angels, angels would be gods;...if angels fell, Aspiring to be angels, men rebel. Climax is nearlv related to Hyperbole, and differs from it chiefly in degree. The purpose of Hyperbole... | |
 | John Adams, Charles Francis Adams - 1851 - Počet stránok 568
...mankind, any more than property, real or personal, any more than wives or women. In pride, in reasoning pride, our error lies, All quit their sphere, and rush into the skies ; Pride still is aiming at the blest abodes, Men would be angels, angels would be gods, Aspiring to be gods, if angels fell, Aspiring... | |
 | 1911 - Počet stránok 994
...literature. Passion and word-harmony may be all very well, but here is a poem with real meat in it. Aspiring to be gods if angels fell, Aspiring to be...angels men rebel; And who but wishes to invert the law* Of Order, sins against tli' Eternal Cause. She mouths out the couplet rhymes as if they were clashing... | |
 | 1928 - Počet stránok 692
...earthquake (1755) or later. Pope (Epistle I, lines 123-128") Voltaire In reas'ning Pride (my Friend) our error lies; All quit their sphere, and rush into the Skies. mouvement" (Locke, Essai . . . concernant VEntendement humain, Amsterdam, 1758, rr, 317), Voltaire... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1963 - Počet stránok 884
...immortal there: 120 Snatch from his hand the balance and the rod, Re-judge his justice, be the GOD of GOD! In Pride, in reas'ning Pride, our error lies; All...rush into the skies. Pride still is aiming at the blest abodes, 125 Men would be Angels, Angels would be Gods. Aspiring to be Gods, if Angels fell, Aspiring... | |
 | Alexander Hamilton - 1977 - Počet stránok 678
...Printed for J. Wilford, 1733-34), Epistle I, lines 123-29. The entire quotation reads: 4. George Cabot. "In pride, in reas'ning pride, our error lies; All...if angels fell, Aspiring to be angels men rebel." To Oliver Wolcott, Junior l [New York, December, 1800] Your last letter, 2 My Dear Sir, has given me... | |
 | Alexander Hamilton - 1961 - Počet stránok 952
...is dated "April 12, 1804." 3. Letter not found. 4. Letter not found. 5. The exact quotation reads: "In pride, in reas'ning pride, our error lies; All quit their sphere, and rush into the skies! Men would be angels, angels would be gods" (Alexander Pope, Essay on Man. Epistles to a Friend [London:... | |
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In pride, in reas'ning pride, our error lies; All quit their sphere, and rush into the skies. Pride still is aiming at the bless'd abodes; Men would be angels, angels would be gods. Aspiring to be gods, if angels fell, Aspiring to be angels, men rebel:... 
