 Thy Godlike crime was to be kind, To render with thy precepts less The sum of human wretchedness, And strengthen Man with his own mind ; But baffled as thou wert from high, Still in thy patient energy, In the endurance, and repulse Of thine impenetrable...  The Works of Lord Byron - Page 338by George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1823Full view - About this book
 | 1843 - 798 pages
...commune wilh Heaven. Such poets are the benefactors of their race ; They render wilh their precept» leas The sum of human wretchedness And strengthen man with his own mind. We know that Mr. Longfellow has reaped, in no scanty measure, that harvest of grateful acknowledgment,... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - Bookbinders - 1815 - 324 pages
...a vain repentance, And evil dread so ill dissembled That in his hand the lightnings trembled. III. Thy Godlike crime was to be kind, To render with thy...his own mind ; But baffled as thou wert from high, StiH in thy patient energy, In the endurance, and repulse Of thine impenetrable Spirit, Which Earth... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1818 - 216 pages
...a vain repentance, And evil dread so ill dissembled That in his hand the lightnings trembled. III. Thy Godlike crime was to be kind, To render with thy...thou wert from high, Still in thy patient energy, 1n the endurance, and repulse Of thine impenetrable Spirit, % Which Earth and Heaven could not convulse,... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1824 - 332 pages
...dread so ill dissemhled That in his hand the lightnings tremhled. III. Thy Godlike crime was to he kind, To render with thy precepts less The sum of...wretchedness, And strengthen Man with his own mind; But haffled as thou wert from high, Still in thy patient energy, In the endurance, and repulse Of thine... | |
 | William Darlington - Mythology - 1832 - 350 pages
...began With vigour then, to mend its halting pace, And found a more compendious way to man." — HORACE. '•Thy godlike crime was to be kind, To render with thy precepts less The sum of human misery than wretchedness, And strengthen man with his own mind." — BYRON. Obs. 1. — Prometheus... | |
 | Theology - 1836 - 424 pages
...done for her race, we have a confident expectation that she will do more. Her " godlike aim is to make less The sum of human wretchedness, And strengthen man with his own mind." Her field is the world, and there are but few reapers to the harvest into which she has thrust her... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - Greece - 1841 - 498 pages
...for succour ? 17. How was the state of Athens finally settled ? SECTION II. The Death of Socrates. Thy godlike crime was to be kind, To render with thy...wretchedness, And strengthen man with his own mind. BYKOK. 2. Stat'uary, *. maker of statues. 3. Sophists, *. artful reasoners. 5. Antagonist, *. opponent.... | |
 | Eliza Robbins - Mythology - 1851 - 318 pages
...that, in every affliction, man is com Ibrted with the hope of relief and of better days. PROMETHEUS. Thy godlike crime was to be kind, To render with thy...wretchedness, And strengthen man with his own mind. — Byron. PROMETHEUS was, doubtless, one of the first civilizers of mankind. He first yoked the ox,... | |
 | Woman - Women - 1844 - 250 pages
...ignorance which sharpened the fang and charged it with deadly poison. CHAPTER III. INFLUENCE OF WOMAN. " To render with thy precepts less The sum of human wretchedness, And strengthen man with his own mind."—BYRON. IT is a true saying, that " no man liveth unto himself, and no man dieth unto himself;"... | |
 | Conduct of life - 1844 - 208 pages
...sharpened the fang and charged it with deadly poison. CHAPTER III. INFLUENCE OF WOMAN. " To tender with thy precepts less The sum of human wretchedness, And strengthen man with his own mind." — BYBOIT. IT is a true saying, that " no man liveth unto himself, and no man dieth unto himself;"... | |
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