 | David Jayne Hill - 1877 - 328 pages
...released the spring. — Pope. '.8) Superior beings, when of late they saw i A mortal man unfold all nature's law, Admired such wisdom in an earthly shape, And showed a Newton as we show an ape. — Pope. II. EXERCISES IN CONSTRUCTION. WHILE great importance is attached to the preceding exercises... | |
 | Edgar Dyke Whitmarsh - 1877 - 602 pages
...and be A FOOL. SUPERIOR beings, when of late they saw A mortal MAN unfold all NATURE'S law, Admir'd such wisdom in an earthly shape, And showed a Newton as we show an APE. Could he, who rules the rapid COMET, bind, Describe, or fix one moment of his MIND ? Who saw its fires... | |
 | John Seely Hart - 1877 - 392 pages
...man with a mean and degrading idea : Superior beings, when of late they saw A mortal man unfuld all nature's law, Admired such wisdom in an earthly shape, And showed a Newton as vx show an apt. The two following examples may perhaps be allowable, because the aim of the writer... | |
 | John Seely Hart - 1878 - 396 pages
...idea: Superior beings, when of late they saw A mortal man unfold all nature's law, Admired such wUdom in an earthly shape, And showed a Newton as we show an ape. The two following examples may perhaps be allowable, because the aim of the writer is to belittle the... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1879 - 130 pages
...seventeenth century. 32. All Nature's law.] The law of universal gravitation discovered by Sir Isaac Newton. Admired such wisdom in an earthly shape, And showed a Newton, as we show an ape. Could he, whose rules the rapid comet bind, 35 Describe or fix one movement of his mind ? Who saw its... | |
 | Laura Valentine - 1880 - 634 pages
...ruleThen 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, whose rules the rapid comet bind, Describe or fix one movement of his mind? Who saw its fires... | |
 | John Seely Hart - 1881 - 426 pages
...man with a mean and degrading idea : 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 two following examples may perhaps be allowable, because the aim of the writer is to belittle the... | |
 | 1881 - 578 pages
...ruleThen drop into thyself, and be a fool I Superior beings, when of late they saw A mortal man unfold all h been a byword in your mouth), James Naylor : what dreadful sufferings, with what patience, Conld he, whose rules the rapid comet bind, Describe or fix one movement of his mind ? Who saw its... | |
 | John Seely Hart - 1882 - 412 pages
...man with a mean and degrading idea : 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 shone an ape. The two following examples may perhaps be allowable, because the aim of the writer is... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - 1884 - 440 pages
...by him in these well-known lines : " Superior beings, when, of late, they saw A mortal man unfolding nature's law, Admired such wisdom in an earthly shape, And showed a Newton as we show an ape." Suppose that a genius like Shakespeare should at that time remain on the earth — a man endowed with... | |
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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. 
