 As man, perhaps, the moment of his breath Receives the lurking principle of death; The young disease, that must subdue at length, Grows with his growth, and strengthens with his strength; So, cast and mingled with his very frame.  Der Mensch, ein philosophisches Gedicht - Pàgina 19per Alexander Pope - 1772 - 351 pàginesVisualització completa - Sobre aquest llibre
 | Harry Thurston Peck, Frank R. Stockton, Julian Hawthorne - 1901 - 422 pàgines
...the frame ; And hence oue master-passion in the breast, Like Aaron's serpent, swallows up the rest. As man, perhaps, the moment of his breath, Receives the lurking principle of death, The young disease, that must subdue at length, Grows with hi$ growth, and strengthens with his strength : So,... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1901 - 120 pàgines
...the frame ; And hence one Master-passion in the breast, Like Aaron's serpent, swallows up the rest. As man, perhaps, the moment of his breath, Receives the lurking principle of death ; u5 The young disease, that must subdue at length, Grows with his growth, and strengthens with hia... | |
 | John Vance Cheney, Sir Charles G. D. Roberts, Charles Francis Richardson, Francis Hovey Stoddard, John Raymond Howard - 1904 - 930 pàgines
...DE VERE. For Satan finds some mischief still For idle hands to do. Song XX. DR. I. WATTS. ILLNESS. As man, perhaps, the moment of his breath, Receives the lurking principle of death, The young disease, that must subdue at length, Grows with his growth, and strengthens with his strength. Essay... | |
 | Paul Elmer More - 1909 - 560 pàgines
...from passions shoot, Wild Nature's vigour working at the root; but turn the leaf and all is changed: As man, perhaps, the moment of his breath, Receives the lurking principle of death; The young disease, that must subdue at length, Grows with his growth and strengthens with his strength ; So,... | |
 | Paul Elmer More - 1909 - 376 pàgines
...from passions shoot, Wild Nature's vigour working at the root; but turn the leaf and all is changed: As man, perhaps, the moment of his breath, Receives the lurking principle of death; The young disease, that must subdue at length, Grows with his growth and strengthens with his strength; So, cast... | |
 | Paul Elmer More - 1909 - 380 pàgines
...from passions shoot, Wild Nature's vigour working at the root; but turn the leaf and all is changed: As man, perhaps, the moment of his breath, Receives the lurking principle of death; The young disease, that must subdue at length, Grows with his growth and strengthens with his strength; So, cast... | |
 | 1910 - 492 pàgines
...the frame; And hence one master passion in the breast, Like Aaron's serpent, swallows up the rest. As Man, perhaps, the moment of his breath, Receives the lurking principle of death; The young disease, that must subdue at length, Grows with his growth, and strengthens with his strength : So,... | |
 | Henry George Bohn, Anna Lydia Ward - 1911 - 784 pàgines
...desperate grown, By desperate appliance are reliev'd, Or not at all. 1251 Shaks. : Hamlet. Act iv. Sc, 3 As man, perhaps, the moment of his breath. Receives the lurking principle of death; The young disease, that must subdue at length, Grows with lus growth, and strengthens with his strength. 1252... | |
 | Antonio Rosmini - 1912 - 192 pàgines
...mortis?" (Evang. Homil. xxxvii.) A similar sentiment was expressed by Pope in the following lines :— " As man, perhaps, the moment of his breath, Receives the lurking principle of death, The young disease, which must subdue at length Grows with his growth, and strengthens with his strength." (Essay... | |
 | Charles Beneulyn Johnson - 1917 - 308 pàgines
...vomited up during the attacks of sea-sickness. CHAPTER XVIII. SOME OF THE MORE PREVALENT DISEASES. "As man, perhaps, the moment of his breath, Receives the lurking principle of death; The young disease, that must subdue at length, Grows with his growth, and strengthens with his strength." —POPE.... | |
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