 | 1874 - 520 pages
...in his rambles, his body suffers much by his abstinence. Yet he contradicts the poet when he says, One master passion in the breast Like Aaron's serpent swallows up the rest For our Hero with this sordid quality, which is commonly deemed sufficient ballast against levity,... | |
 | Arthur Cayley Headlam - 1890 - 548 pages
...Hence diffrent passions more or less inflame As strong or weak the organs of the frame ; And hence one master passion in the breast, Like Aaron's serpent, swallows up the rest.' 2 Almost every line contains an antithesis or a contrast, and when this method is continued... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1878 - 138 pages
...diff'rent passions more or less inflame, As strong or weak, the organs of the 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... | |
 | Where, Who - 1878 - 186 pages
...everlasting yawn confess The pains and penalties of idleness. POPE, The Dunciad, bk. iv. And hence one master passion in the breast, Like Aaron's serpent swallows up the rest. POPE, Essay on Man. And in my heart, if calm at all, If any calm, a calm despair. TENNTSON, In... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1879 - 184 pages
...'literally 'bending forwards.' For the sentiment cf. Pope's Essay on Afán, 1. 131 2— "And hence one Master Passion in the breast, Like Aaron's serpent, swallows up the rest" — with the thirty lines which follow. 96 Spurns. 'Rejects,' 'throws aside.' Cf. DV 1. юб.... | |
 | 1879 - 636 pages
...Girardot, turning quickly at her cry, was only just in time to save her from falling on the stones. VIII. ' One master passion in the breast, Like Aaron's serpent, swallows up the rest.' POIE. IT was the Abbe upon whom the- weight of that sad time seemed to be thrust, and it was... | |
 | Henry George Bohn - 1881 - 738 pages
...o'er his gold, and griping still at more, Sits sadly pining, and believes he's poor. Dryden. And hence one master passion in the breast, Like Aaron's serpent, swallows up the rest. Pope, £. llf.n.131. Riches, like insects, when conceal'd they lie, Wait but for wings, and in... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1881 - 150 pages
...diff'rent passions more or less inflame, As strong or weak, the organs of the 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... | |
 | 1881 - 578 pages
...Hence different passions more or less inflame, As strong or weak, the organs of the frame ; And hence wholly to nature, which was much more the effect of use and practice. I rest. As Man, perhaps, the moment of his breath, Receives the lurking principle of death ; The young... | |
 | Francis Wharton, Moreton Stillé - 1882 - 832 pages
..."Hence different passions more or less inflame, As strong or weak, the organs of 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... | |
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And hence one master passion in the breast. Like Aaron's serpent, swallows up the rest. 
