 | British essayists - 1823 - 862 pages
...the Sun his seasons. Among the several deities who came to make their court on this occasion, 'the * Two urns by Jove's high throne have ever stood, The source of evil one, and one of good ; J?rom thence the cup of mortal man he fills, Blessings to these, to those distributes ills : To most... | |
 | Plutarch, John Langhorne, William Langhorne - 1826 - 478 pages
...may think • Plutarch here refers to a passage in the speech of Achilles to Priam in the last Iliad, which is thus translated by Pope: — Two urns by...ills; To most he mingles both; the wretch decreed Tp taste the bad, unmix'd, is curs'd indeed. themselves most happy to whom fortune gives an equal share... | |
 | Homer - 1825 - 286 pages
...decree : They, only they are hlest, and only free. Two urns hy Jove's high throne have ever itood, The source of evil one, and one of good ; From thence...mortal man he fills, Blessings to these, to those distrihutes ills ; To most, he mingles hoth : the wretch decreed To taste the had, unmix'd, is curst... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1826 - 396 pages
...born to bear. 660 Such is, alas! the gods' severe decree ; They, only they, are blest, ami only free. Two urns by Jove's high throne have ever stood, The...one of good ; From thence the cup of mortal man he filisV 665 "Blessings to these, to those distributes ills : To most, he mingles both. The wretch decreed... | |
 | George Crabb - 1826 - 768 pages
...than another. JOHNSON. A person's alms ought to be distributed among those who are most indigent ; From thence the cup of mortal man he fills, Blessings to these, to those distributes ills. POPE. When any complicated undertaking is to be performed by a number of individuals, it is necessary... | |
 | George Daniel, John Cumberland - 1826 - 538 pages
...proportioned to their different na'nres, attributes, and powers. As, in the heathen mythology — " Two urns by Jove's high throne have ever stood, The source of evil one, and one ot good," the superstition of later times has its benevolent and malignant spirits, from whom all good... | |
 | New elegant extracts, Richard Alfred Davenport - 1827 - 408 pages
...other with all the calamities of human life. Jupiter, in the beginning of his reign, finding the * Two urns by Jove's high throne have ever stood, The...source of evil one, and one of good; From thence the cnp of mortal man he nils, Blessings to these, to those distributes ills: To most he mingles both:... | |
 | Richard Alfred Davenport - 1827 - 402 pages
...other with all the calamities of human life. Jupiter, in the beginning of his reign, finding the * Two urns by Jove's high throne have ever stood, The...source of evil one, and one of good ; From thence the cap of mortal man he fills, Blessings to these, to those distributes ills : To most he mingles both... | |
 | Richard Alfred Davenport - 1827 - 494 pages
...other with all the calamities of human life. Jupiter, in the beginning of his reign, finding the • Two urns by Jove's high throne have ever stood, The...source of evil one, and one of good ; From thence the cap of mortal man he fills, Blessings to these, to those distributes ills : To most he mingles both... | |
 | Richard Alfred Davenport - 1827 - 404 pages
...other with all the calamities of human life. Jupiter, in the beginning of bis reign, finding the * Two urns by Jove's high throne have ever stood. The...source of evil one, and one of good ; From thence the cop of mortal man he fills, Blessings to these, to those distributes ills : To most he mingles both... | |
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Two urns by Jove's high throne have ever stood, The source of evil one, and one of good; From thence the cup of mortal man he fills, Blessings to these, to those distributes ills; To most, he mingles both. The wretch decreed To taste the bad, unrnix'd,... 
