 God loves from whole to parts: but human soul Must rise from individual to the whole. Self-love but serves the virtuous mind to wake, As the small pebble stirs the peaceful lake; The centre moved, a circle straight succeeds, Another still, and still another...  Quarterly Review - Page 2991821Full view - About this book
 | John Bell - 1796 - 524 pages
...Benevolence: Happier as kinder, in whate'er degree, And height of bliss but height of charity. 360 God loves from whole to parts; but human soul Must rise from individual to the whole. Self-love but serves the virtuous mind to wake, As the small pebble stirs the peaceful lake; The centre... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1798 - 140 pages
...of benevolence : Happier as kinder, in whate'er degree, And height of bliss but height of charity. God loves from whole to parts ; but human soul Must rise from individual to the whole. Self-love but serves the virtuous mind to wake, As the small pebble stirs the peaceful lake, The center... | |
 | John Monck Mason - 1798 - 494 pages
...peaceful lake. The centre mov'd, a circle straight succeeds, Another still, and still another spreads: Friend, parent, neighbour, first it will embrace, His country next, and next all human race; Wide, and more wide, th' o'erflowings of the mind Take every creature in, of every kind ; Earth smiles... | |
 | Edward Young - 1798 - 432 pages
...The centre mov'd, a circle straight succeeds, * Another still, and still another spreads: ' Krientl, parent, neighbour, first it will embrace, ' His country next; and next all human race.' POPE. Line 290. ' Go, man ! * And bow to thy superiors of the stall.' This is an admirable specimen... | |
 | John Monck Mason - 1798 - 496 pages
...Pope has adopted this beautiful image, but applied it to a different subject, in his Essay on Man—- God loves from whole to parts; but human soul Must rise from individuals to the whole. Self-love but serves the virtuous mind to wake, As the small pebble stirs... | |
 | John Brewster - 1802 - 330 pages
...peaceful lake i " The centre mov'da circle strait succeeds, " Another still, and still another spreads ; " Friend, parent, neighbour, first it will embrace, " His country next, and next all human raoe." Whether Mr. Pope's philosophy, which makes self-love the centre of universal philanthropy be... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1804 - 232 pages
...Benevolence : Happier as kinder, in what'er degree, And height of bliss but height of charity. 360 God loves from whole to parts ; but human soul Must rise from individual to the whole. Self-love but serves the virtuous mind to wake, As the small pebble stirs the peaceful lake ; The centre... | |
 | James Wilson - 1804 - 494 pages
...of mankind. The centre mov'd, a circle straight succeeds, Another still, and still another spreads. Friend, parent, neighbour first it will embrace, His country next, and next all human race ; Wide and more wide, th' o'erflowings of the mind Take ev'ry creature in, of ev'ry kind ; Earth smiles... | |
 | William Enfield - 1804 - 418 pages
...of benevolence : Happier as kinder , in whate'er degree, And height of Bliss but height of Charity. God loves from "Whole to Parts : But human soul Must rise from Individual to the AVhole. Self-love but serves the virtuous mind to wake, As the small pebble stirs the peaceful lake... | |
 | 1803 - 430 pages
...peaceful lake ; The centre moves, a circle straight fucceeds. Another .still, and still, another fpreads, Friend, parent, neighbour first It will embrace, His country next, and next all human race, Wide and more wide the o'erflowings of the mind, Take every creature in, of every kind. Drove on by... | |
| |
