 | John Gillies - 1820 - 544 pages
...! Ecce Syracusii ludimur arte scnis. Pope, if he did not borrow, has hit on, the same thought, — Admired such wisdom in an earthly shape, And showed a Newton as we show an ape. Essay on Man, Epist. nv SS, .14. CHAP, discord thus raged more widely: cities were taken, lost, and... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1843 - 50 pages
...Then drop into thyself, and be a fool ! Superior beings, when of late they saw A mortal man unfold all nature's law, Admired such wisdom in an earthly shape, And showed a NEWTON, as we show an ape. Could he, who rules the rapid comet bind, 35] Describe or fix one movement of his mind ? Who saw its... | |
 | Seba Smith, Lawrence Labree - 1844 - 498 pages
...tell but they may be types of truth? "Superior beings, when of late they TOW A mortal man unfold oll nature's law, Admired such wisdom in an earthly shape. And showed a Newton, as we ahow an upe." BATTLE OF ANTS. MB. EDlTOB :— While rambling in the fields, a few days since, I witnessed... | |
 | 1847 - 468 pages
...truth, in the lines of the poet — ' Superior beings, when of late they saw A mortal man unfold all nature's law, Admired such wisdom in an earthly shape, And showed a Newton as we show an ape.' * The Pre-Adamite Earth : Contributions to Theological Science. By John Harris, DD, &c. 8yo. Ward and... | |
 | European revolution, Superior Spirit - 1848 - 204 pages
...1848. BY A SUPERIOR SPIR f T y vf V "Superior Beings, when, of late, they saw A mortal man unfold all Nature's law, Admired such wisdom in an earthly shape, And showed a Newton — a* we show an Ape."— POPE. LONDON: LONGMAN, BROWN, GREEN, AND LONGMANS, PATERNOSTER ROW; TAMWORTH... | |
 | James Gallaher - 1850 - 412 pages
...doubtless, the beautiful lines of Pope — " Superior beings, when of late they saw A mortal man unfold all nature's law, Admired such wisdom in an earthly shape, And showed a Newton as we show an ape." Senator. But my great difficulty is yet untouched. I can't see that it was worthy of the great God... | |
 | James Gallaher - 1850 - 420 pages
...doubtless, the beautiful lines of Pope — " Superior beings, when of late they saw A mortal man unfold all nature's law, Admired such wisdom in an earthly shape, And showed a Newton as we show an ape." Senator. But my great difficulty is yet untouched. I can't see that it was worthy of the great God... | |
 | John Sartain, Caroline Matilda Kirkland, John Seely Hart - 1851 - 504 pages
...consulship !" In the Essay, Pope says : "Superior beings, when of late they saw A mortal man unfold all Nature's law, Admired such wisdom in an earthly shape, And showed a Newton, as we show an ape." This nearly approaches the contemptuous opinion expressed by Baphael, in Paradise Lost, where he speaks... | |
 | George Frederick Graham - 1852 - 570 pages
...drop into thyself, and be a fool ! 30 Superior beings, when of late they saw A mortal man unfold all nature's law, Admired such wisdom in an earthly shape, And showed a Newton2 as we show an ape. Could he whose rules the rapid comet bind, 35 Describe or fix one movement... | |
 | 1868 - 796 pages
...the inhabitants of the celestial regions as so pleased with the discoveries of Sir Isaac that they "Admired such wisdom in an earthly shape. And showed a Newton as we show an ape." I have always regarded this as rather a dubious compliment to the philosopher, but not without value... | |
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Superior beings, when of late they saw A mortal man unfold all Nature's law, Admired such wisdom in an earthly shape, And showed a Newton as we show an ape. 
