 | British poets - 1822
...one for all. Grant that the powerful still the weak control, Be man the wit and tyrant of the whole : Nature that tyrant checks ; he only knows, And helps,...spare the dove ? Admires the jay the insect's gilded wings1'. Or hears the hawk when Philomela sings ?— O Man cares for all: to birds he gives his woods,... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1822
...Men in the exercise of that Tyranny over their fellow-creatures, consequent on such a principle. W. Nature that Tyrant checks ; He only knows, And helps,...falcon, stooping from above, Smit with her varying plumage,"spare the dove ? Admires the jay the insect's gilded wings ? 55 Or hears the hawk when Philomela... | |
 | Jesse Torrey - Philosophy - 1824 - 300 pages
...for all. 8 Grant that the pow'rful still the weak Control, Be man the wit and tyrant of the whole: Nature that tyrant checks; he only knows, And helps,...gilded wings? Or hears the hawk when Philomela sings? 9 Man cares for all: to birds he gives his woods, To beasts his pastures, and to fish his floods; For... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1824
...As far as Goose could judge, he reason'd right; But as to Man, mistook the matter quite. Warburton. Nature that tyrant checks ; he only knows, And helps,...above, Smit with her varying plumage, spare the dove ? COMMENTARY. •single : for his reason hath endowed him both with power and address sufficient to... | |
 | Alexander Pope, Henry St. John Bolingbroke (Viscount.) - Poetry - 1824 - 67 pages
...for all. Grant that the pow'rful still the weak control, Be man the wit and tyrant of the whole : SO Nature that tyrant checks ; he only knows, And helps,...above, Smit with her varying plumage, spare the dove ? Admiree the jay the insect's gilded wings ? 55 J)r hears the hawk when Philomela sings ? Man cares... | |
 | Alexander Pope, William Roscoe - 1824
...As far as Goose could judge, he reason'd right; But as to Man, mistook the matter quite. Warburton. Nature that tyrant checks ; he only knows, And helps,...above, Smit with her varying plumage, spare the dove ? COMMENTARY. single : for his reason hath endowed him both with power and address sufficient to make... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1824 - 273 pages
...the whole : JJature that tyrant checks ; he only knows, And helps another creature's wants wod woeg. Smit with her varying plumage, spare the dove ? Admires the jay, the insect's gilded wings ? , v Or hears the hawk when Plr'omela sings? 5. Man cares for all ; to hirds he gives his wood?, To... | |
 | Alexander Pope - Poetry - 1824 - 67 pages
...control, Be man the wit and tyrant of the whole : 50 S'aturc that tyrant checks ; he only knows, \nd helps, another creature's wants and woes. Say, will the falcon, stooping from above, T mil with her varying plumage, spare the dove .' Admires the jay the insect's gilded wings ? 65 Or... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1825 - 263 pages
...of the whole : Nature th;>- tyraiit checks ; he only knows, And helps anottior creature's wants and Say. will the falcon, stooping from above, Smit with...his pastures, and to fish his floods ; For some his int'rest prompts him to provide, For more his pleasures, yet for more his pride. All fed on one vain... | |
 | Alexander Pope - Poetry - 1825 - 524 pages
...pamper'd goose: And just as short of reason he must fall, Who thinks all made for one, not one for all. Nature that tyrant checks ; he only knows, And helps,...gilded wings { Or hears the hawk when Philomela sings t Man cares for all : to birds he gives his woods, To beasts his pastures, and to fish his floods ;... | |
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