 | Abraham Cowley - English literature - 1806 - 294 pages
...and true dishonour fall on those Who would to laughter or to scorn expose So virtuous and so noble a design, So human for its use, for knowledge so divine....call Impertinent, and vain, and small, Those smallest tilings of nature let me know, Rather than all their greatest actions do ! Whoever would deposed Truth... | |
 | Abraham Cowley - 1809 - 296 pages
...and true dishonour fall on those Who would to laughter or to scorn expose So virtuous and so noble a design, So human for its use, for knowledge so divine....Whoever would deposed Truth advance Into the throne usurp'd from it, Must feel at first the blows of Ignorance, And the shap points of envious Wit. So,... | |
 | Abraham Cowley - English poetry - 1809 - 296 pages
...and true dishonour fall on those Who would to laughter or to scorn expose So virtuous and so noble a design, So human for its use, for knowledge so divine....'Whoever would deposed Truth advance Into the throne usurp'd from it, Must feel at first the blows of Ignorance, And the shap points of envious Wit. So,... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - English poetry - 1810 - 560 pages
...!mimfor its use» for knowledge so divine. nethinjt, Which these proud men despispjand call ""pertinent, and vain, and small, Those smallest things of Nature...actions do ! Whoever would deposed Truth advance Into (he throne usurp'd from it, Mustfeel at first the blows of Ignorance, And the sharp points of envious... | |
 | Literary and Philosophical Society of New-York (New York, N.Y.) - Science - 1815 - 616 pages
...and true dishonour fall on those Who would to laughter or to scorn expose So virtuous and so noble a design, So human for its use, for knowledge so divine....let me know, Rather than all their greatest actions doe. Whoever would deposed truth advance Into the throne usurp'd from it, Must feel at first the blows... | |
 | British poets - Classical poetry - 1822 - 306 pages
...and true dishonour fall on those Who would to laughter or to scorn expose So virtuous and so noble a design, So human for its use, for knowledge so divine....Whoever would deposed Truth advance Into the throne usurp'd from it, Must feel at first the blows of Ignorance, And the sharp points of envious Wit. So,... | |
 | William Hazlitt - English poetry - 1824 - 1062 pages
...and true dishonour fall on those Who would to laughter or to scorn expose So virtuous and so noble , Contracte, inverts, and gives ten thousand dyes....observation stay, It hurries all too fast to mark the way : usurp'd from it, Must feel at first the blows of ignorance, And the sharp points of envious wit. So... | |
 | William Hazlitt - English poetry - 1825 - 600 pages
...and true dishonour fall on those \VTio would to laughter or to seorn expose So virtuous and so noble Cassandra mine. Vour rival Pasimond whieh these proud men despise, and eall Impertinent, and vain, and small, Those smallest things of... | |
 | Samuel Butler - 1835 - 518 pages
...and true dishonour fall on those Who would to laughter or to scorn expose So virtuous and so noble a design, So human for its use, for knowledge so divine....me know, Rather than all their greatest actions do ! The learned and ingenious bishop Kurd delivers his opinion on this passage in two lines from Pope... | |
 | Samuel Butler - 1835 - 460 pages
...and true dishonour fall oil those Who would to laughter or to scorn expose So virtuous and so noble a design, So human for its use, for knowledge so divine....me know, Rather than all their greatest actions do ! The learned and ingenious bishop Hurd delivers his opinion on this passage in two lines from Pope... | |
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Mischief and true dishonour fall on those Who would to laughter or to scorn expose So virtuous and so noble a design, So human for its use, for knowledge so divine. The things which these proud men despise, and call Impertinent, and vain, and small, Those... 
