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" When the proud steed shall know why man restrains His fiery course, or drives him o'er the plains ; When the dull ox, why now he breaks the clod, Is now a victim, and now Egypt's god : Then shall man's pride and dulness comprehend His actions', passions',... "
A Rhetorical Grammar: In which the Common Improprieties in Reading and ... - Page 173
by John Walker - 1801 - 392 pages
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Select British Poets, Or, New Elegant Extracts from Chaucer to the Present ...

William Hazlitt - 1824 - 1062 pages
...goal ; 'Tie but a part we see, and not a whole. [strains When the proud steed shall know why man reHis is world enjoy'dst, And all the rule, one empire; check'd.impell'd; and why This hour a slave, the next a deity. Then say not man's imperfect, heaven...
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The Works of Alexander Pope: Esq. with Notes and Illustrations by ..., Volume 5

Alexander Pope - 1824 - 424 pages
...divines do in their discourses) the absolute necessity of another, for the defence of the dispensations When the dull ox, why now he breaks the clod, Is now...God : Then shall Man's pride and dulness comprehend 65 His actions', passions', being's, use and end ; • COMMENTARY. been said is sufficient to vindicate...
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The Works of Alexander Popekesq., with Notes and Illustrations by ..., Volume 5

Alexander Pope - 1824 - 422 pages
...infinite, which we meet with in all theological writers, to savour more of panegyric than , of D« When the proud steed shall know why Man restrains His fiery course, or drives him o'er the plains ; COMMENTARY. Ver. 61'. When the proud steed, #c.] From all this the Poet draws a general conclusion...
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Lectures on the Philosophy of the Human Mind, Volume 1

Thomas Brown - 1824 - 468 pages
...animals, as to the motives which influence the follies and inconsistencies of their capricious master. " When the proud steed shall know, why man restrains His fiery course, or drives him o'er the plains, M'hen the dull ox, why now he breaks the clod, Is now a victim, and now Egypt's God, — ( Then shall...
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The Works of Alexander Pope: Esq. with Notes and Illustrations by ..., Volume 5

Alexander Pope - 1824 - 430 pages
...word infinite, which we meet with in all theological writers, to savour more of panegyric than of D2 When the proud steed shall know why Man restrains His fiery course, or drives him o'er the plains ; COMMENTARY. Ver. 61. When the proud steed, $r.] From all this the Poet draws a general conclusion...
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The British anthology; or, Poetical library, Volumes 3-4

British anthology - 1825 - 460 pages
...goal : Tis but a part we see, and not a whole, [strains When the proud steed shall know why man reHis fiery course, or drives him o'er the plains ; When...passions', being's, use and end ; Why doing, suffering, check 'd, impell'd ; and why This hour a slave, the next a deity. Then say not man 's imperfect, Heaven...
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The Poetical Works of Alex. Pope: With a Sketch of the Author's Life

Alexander Pope - 1825 - 536 pages
...some wheel, or verges to some goal : Tj-i but a part we see, and not a whole. 60 When the proudsteed shall know why man restrains His fiery course, or...victim, and now Egypt's god : Then shall man's pride and duluese comprehend la ¡M actions', passions', being's, use and end; Why doing, suffering, check'd,...
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Select Poets of Great Britain: To which are Prefixed, Criticial Notices of ...

William Hazlitt - 1825 - 600 pages
...part we see, and not a whole. [strains When the proud steed shall know why man reHis fiery eourse, elod, Is now a vietim, and now Egypt's god : Then shall man's pride and dulness eomprehend His aetions',...
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Lectures on the Philosophy of the Human Mind, Volume 1

Thomas Brown - 1826 - 548 pages
...animals, as to the motives which influence the follies and inconsistencies of their capricious master. " When the proud steed shall know, why man restrains...Then shall man's pride and dulness comprehend His action's, passion's, being's use and end ; Why doing, suffering, check'd, impell'd ; and why This hour...
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Select Works of the British Poets: With Biographical and Critical Prefaces

John Aikin - 1826 - 840 pages
...sphere unknown, Touches some wheel, or verges to some goal ; 'Tis hut a part we see, and not a whole. When the proud steed shall know why man restrains...clod, Is now a victim, and now ^Egypt's god : Then slmll man's pride and (lulncss comprehend His actions', [Missions', being's, use and end ; Wlty doing,...
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