 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
 | KATE LOUISE ROBERTS - 1922 - 1422 pàgines
...YOUNGER. Ep. Bk. IV. 22. SENECA— De dementia. Bk. II. 2. (See also EDDY, HAWTHORNE, OVID) is -4s Book of Common Prayer. Burial of the Dead. Media vita in morte sumus. From a Latin antipho disease, that must subdue at length, Grows with his growth, and strengthens with his strength. POPE... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1926 - 310 pàgines
...frame; 130 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, 135 Grows with his growth, and strengthens with his strength :... | |
 | 1922 - 472 pàgines
...future must more and more be laid upon prevention and here we now know we must begin with the child. "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." —... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1963 - 884 pàgines
...frame; 130 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, 135 Grows with his growth, and strengthens with his strength :... | |
 | W. B. Carnochan - 1987 - 260 pàgines
...Man (1733): 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,... | |
 | Mary Shelley - 1996 - 476 pàgines
...Percy went to Byron's public school, Harrow, instead. 66 See Alexander Pope, An Essay on Man 2.133-36: "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." Mary... | |
 | Patricia Carr Brückmann - 1997 - 204 pàgines
...on Man in the Second Epistle, that section given to the unreliability of the operations of the mind: 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,... | |
 | Timothy J. Reiss - 2002 - 562 pàgines
...earlier chapters to fit exactly this development. Let me just repeat Pope's 1733-1734 Essay on Man: 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,... | |
 | Joseph Warton - 2004 - 368 pàgines
...penetrating, and mafterly understanding ; of his intimate knowledge of the human heart, and mind. • As man, perhaps, the moment of his breath, Receives...death ; The young difeafe, that muft fubdue at length, Grows with his growth, and ilrengthcns with his ftrength : So, caft and mingled xvith his very frame,... | |
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