 | George Gulliver - 1881 - 178 pages
...excursions on the borders of Physical Causation and Mental Causation, reminding one of Pope's couplet, — Physic of metaphysic begs defence, And metaphysic calls for aid on sense. NEWPORT, a Canterbury man, was short in person, and probably the best entomotomist of his day. He was... | |
 | Thomas Humphry Ward - 1881 - 638 pages
...o'er her head I Philosophy, that lean'd on heaven before, Shrinks to her second cause, and is no mure. Physic of Metaphysic begs defence, And Metaphysic calls for aid on Sense I See Mystery to Mathematics fly I In vain! they gaze, turn giddy, rave, and die. Religion blushing... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1882 - 572 pages
...head ! Philosophy, that lean'd on Heav'n ' before, Shrinks to her second cause, and is no more, (fi a) Physic of Metaphysic begs defence, And Metaphysic...for aid on Sense ! See Mystery to Mathematics fly ! ' 1 Alluding to the saying of Democritus, that Truth lay at the bottom of a deep well, from whence... | |
 | Epes Sargent - 1882 - 1002 pages
...her old cavern fled, Mountains of casuistry heaped o'er her head ! Philosophy, that leaned on Heaven whose sound was like the sen ; Pure as the naked heavens, majestic, free, So didst thou tra tnctaphysic calls for aid on sense! See mystery to mathematics fly ! In vain! they gaze, turn giddy,... | |
 | 1882 - 800 pages
...her old cavern fled, Mountains of casuistry heaped o'er her head ! Philosophy, that leaned on heaven before, Shrinks to her second cause, and is no more : Physic of Metaphysic begs defence, Anil Metaphysic calls for aid on Sense ! See Mystery to Mathematics fly ! In vain '. they gaze, turn... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1882 - 544 pages
...head ! Philosophy, that lean'd on Heav'n * before, Shrinks to her second cause, and is no more. (6 a) Physic of Metaphysic begs defence, And Metaphysic calls ' for aid on Sense I See Mystery to Mathematics fly ! * 645 1 Alluding to the saying of Dernocritus, that Truth lay at... | |
 | Yasmine Gooneratne - 1976 - 164 pages
...to her old Cavern fled, 641 Mountains of Casuistry heap'd o'er her head! Philosophy, that lean'd on Heav'n before, Shrinks to her second cause, and is...Mathematics fly! In vain! they gaze, turn giddy, rave, and die. Religion, blushing veils her sacred fires, And unawares Morality expires. The note of tragic inevitability... | |
 | David Daiches - 1979 - 336 pages
...her old cavern fled, Mountains of casuistry heaped o'er her head! Philosophy, that leaned on Heaven before, Shrinks to her second cause, and is no more....Mathematics fly! In vain! they gaze, turn giddy, rave, and die. Religion blushing veils her sacred fires, And unawares Morality expires. Nor public flame, nor... | |
 | F. R. Leavis - 1986 - 380 pages
...her old cavern fled, Mountains of casuistry heaped o'er her head! Philosophy, that leaned on heaven before, Shrinks to her second cause, and is no more....mathematics fly! In vain! they gaze, turn giddy, rave, and die. Religion blushing veils her sacred fires, And unawares morality expires. Nor public flame, nor... | |
 | Edith P. Hazen - 1992 - 1172 pages
...The Dunclad 1 She comes! She comes! The sable throne behold Of Night primaeval, and of Chaos old! 2 which is more — you'll be a Man, my son! (1. 29-32)...OxBChV; OxBTC; PWR; WBLP Mandalay 9 By the old Moulmein die. Religion blushingveils her sacred fires, And unawares Morality expires. Nor public flame, nor... | |
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Heav'n before, Shrinks to her second cause, and is no more. Physic of Metaphysic begs defence, And Metaphysic calls for aid on Sense! See Mystery to Mathematics fly! In vain! they gaze, turn giddy, rave, and die, Religion blushing veils her sacred fires,... 
