 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.  La Belle Assemblée - Sida 311808Obegränsad förhandsgranskning - Om den här boken
 | Alexander Pope - 1822 - 372 sidor
...inflame, As strong or weak, the organs of the frame ; 130 And hence jonej«A5TERjP ASSIGN in the bre_ast, Like Aaron's serpent, swallows up the rest. As Man,...his breath, Receives the lurking principle of death ;~ NOTES. Ver. 128. On diff'rent senses] A didactic poet, who has happily indulged himself in bolder... | |
 | 1822 - 284 sidor
...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 Heceives the lurking principle of death, The young disease, that must subdue at length, Grows with... | |
 | 1822 - 690 sidor
...appearance took place at the Royal Circus; but no matter: he had told it till he believed it. Pope says that Man, perhaps, the moment of his breath Receives the lurking principle of death. " The lurking principle of death" to all well-doing, or, in other words, the first hankering after haut-ton... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1823 - 436 sidor
...alike, On different senses different objects strike : Hence different passions more or less inflame, As strong or weak the organs of the frame. And hence...breast, Like Aaron's serpent, swallows up the rest. like manner, was a painter. Shakspeare, who of all poets had the deepest insight into human nature,... | |
 | 1823 - 878 sidor
...fish are in a pond. Second Part Henry IV. Act i. sc. 3. Pope has several similes of the same stamp. And hence one master passion in the breast, Like Aaron's serpent, swallows up the rest. Epist. ii. 131. And again talking of this same ruling or master passion ; Nature its mother, habit... | |
 | 1872 - 890 sidor
...arrest their further growth even though it be true that we are born to die; for, as the poet says. " As man, perhaps the moment of his breath, Receives the lurking principle of death, The jouag disease, which muet eabdae at length, Grows with the growth and strengthens with his strength."... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1824 - 422 sidor
...The Hence different 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...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... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1824 - 424 sidor
...The Hence different 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...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... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1824 - 84 sidor
...strike ; Hence different 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...man, perhaps, the moment of his breath, Receives the liwkin^ principle of death ; The young disease, that mast subdue at length, 135 Grows with his growth,... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1824 - 1062 sidor
...; On different senses, different objects strike ; Hence different passions more or less inflame, As ercome Their noxious vapour, or inur'd not feel, Or...place conform'd In temper and in nature, will rece mau, perhaps, the moment of his breath, Receives the lurking principle of death ; The young disease,... | |
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