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" Describe or fix one movement of his mind? Who saw its fires here rise, and there descend, Explain his own beginning, or his end? "
The Works of the Right Reverend William Warburton, D.D., Lord Bishop of ... - Page 70
by William Warburton, Richard Hurd - 1811 - 11 pages
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The stream of life on our globe ... as revealed by modern discoveries in ...

John Laws Milton - 1864 - 668 pages
...Could he whose rules the rapid comet bind, Describe or fix one movement of his mind 'I Who saw its fires here rise and there descend, Explain his own beginning or his end ? " are I suppose quite familiar to the reader. They are very well adapted to round a period, but they...
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The British Poets, Volume 2

1866 - 328 pages
...Could he, whose rules the rapid comet bind, Describe or fix one movement of his mind ? Who saw its fires here rise, and there descend, Explain his own...his end ? Alas ! what wonder ! man's superior part Uncbeck'd may rise, and climb from art to art ; But when his own great work is but begun, What reason...
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An Essay on Man: In Four Epistles, to H.St.John, Lord Bolingbroke

Alexander Pope - 1867 - 80 pages
...:Vj. Could he (Newton,) after all his mi^ht r dis Describe or fix one movement of his mind Who saw its fires here rise and there descend, Explain his own...from art to art; But when his own great work is but beyun, 41 What reason weaves, by passion is undone. Trace science, then, with modesty thy guide; First...
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The poetical works of Alexander Pope, with life of the author and notes by J ...

Alexander Pope - 1867 - 626 pages
...Could he, whose rules the rapid comet bind, Describe or fix one movement of his mind ? Who saw its fires here rise, and there descend, Explain his own...his end ? Alas, what wonder ! man's superior part Uncheek'd may rise, and climb from art to art ; But when his own great work is but begun, 41 What reason...
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An Essay on Man

Alexander Pope - 1867 - 72 pages
...Could he, who rules the rapid comet, bind, Describe, or fix one movement of his mind ? Who saw its fires here rise, and there descend, Explain his own...or his end ? Alas, what wonder! man's superior part Unchecked may rise, and climb from art to art; But when his OWN great work is but begun, What reason...
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The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope: Ed. by the Rev. H. F. Cary

Alexander Pope - 1867 - 520 pages
...Could he, whose rules the rapid comet bind, Describe or fix one movement of his mind 2 "Who saw its fires here rise, and there descend, Explain his own beginning, or his end 1 Alas, what wonder I Man's superior part Uncheck'd may rise, and climb from art to art 5 But when...
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The poetical works of Alexander Pope, ed. with notes and intr. memoir by A.W ...

Alexander Pope - 1869 - 570 pages
...Could he, whose rules the rapid Comet bind, 35 Describe or fix one movement of his Mind! Who saw its fires here rise, and there descend, Explain his own...part Uncheck'd may rise, and climb from art to art; 40 But when his own great work is but begun, What Reason weaves, by Passion is undone. Trace Science...
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The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope

Alexander Pope - 1869 - 512 pages
...Could he, whose rules the rapid comet bind, Describe or fix one movement of his mind ? Who saw its fires here rise, and there descend, Explain his own beginning, or his end 1 Alas, what wonder ! Man's superior part Uncheck'd may rise, and climb from art to art; But when his...
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The Works of Alexander Pope, Volume 2

Alexander Pope - 1871 - 544 pages
...bind,* Describe or fix one movement of his mind?' Who saw its fires here rise, and there descend,4 Explain his own beginning or his end ?* Alas ! what wonder !* man's superior part' Unchecked may rise, and climb from art to art ; ' u 1 Ed. 4 : The whirling comet. — POPE. - Ed. 1...
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Literature of the English Language: Comprising Representative Selections ...

1872 - 660 pages
...there descend, Explain his own beginning or his end ? Alas, what wonder ! man's superior part Unchecked may rise, and climb from art to art ; But, when his...but begun, What reason weaves, by passion is undone. Then see how little the remaining sum, Which served the past, and must the times to come ! II. Two...
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