 | Alexander Pope - 1736 - 64 str.
...A1! this dread ORDER break---For whom ? For thee ! Vile Worm !— O Madnefs ! Pride ! Impiety ! 250 What if the Foot, ordain'd the Duft to tread, Or Hand to toil, afpir'd to be the Head ? What if the Head, the Eye, or Ear, repin'd To ferve mere Engines to the ruling Mind ? Juft as abfurd,... | |
 | William Warburton - 1742 - 220 str.
...would make in our Frame, if the Members were fct upon invading each other's Office: What if the Poor, ordain'd the Duft to tread, Or Hand to toil, afpir'd to be the Head? &c. Juft as abfurd, for any Part to claim To be another in this gen'ral Frame : Juft as abfurd, to... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1751 - 274 str.
...fky ; Let ruling Angels from their fpheres be hurl'd, Being on Being wreck'd, and world on world ; Heav'n's whole foundations to their centre nod, 255...to tread, Or hand, to toil, afpir'd to be the head ? 260 , NOTE s. verb alludes to the motion of the planetary bodies of each fyftem j and to the figures... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1751 - 272 str.
...fky ; Let ruling Angels from their fpheres be hurl'd, Being on Being wreck'd, and world on world ; Heav'n's whole foundations to their centre nod, 255...to tread, Or hand, to toil, afpir'd to be the head ? 260 NOTEs. verb alludes to the motion of the planetary bodies of each fyftem ; and to the figures... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1751 - 374 str.
...hurl'd, Being on Being wreck'd, and world on world ; Heav'n's whole foundations to their centre nod,255 And Nature trembles to the throne of God. All this...to tread, Or hand, to toil, afpir'd to be the head ? 260 What if the head, the eye, or ear repin'd To ferve mere engines to the ruling Mind ? NOTES. the... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1752 - 378 str.
...Let ruling Angels from their fpheres be hurl'd, Being on Being wreck'd, and world on world j Heav'ns whole foundations to their centre nod, 255 And Nature...throne of God. All this dread ORDER break — for whom f for thee ? Vile worm ! — oh Madnefs ! Pride ! Impiety ! IX. What if the foot, ordain'd the duft... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1754 - 238 str.
...The poet, throughout VARIATIONS. VER. 238. Ed. ift. Ethereal eflence, fpirit, fubftance, man. Heav'ns whole foundations to their centre nod, 255 And Nature...trembles to the throne of God. All this dread ORDER break—for whom ? for thee ? Vile worm !—oh Madnefs! Pride! Impiety ! IX. What if the foot, ordain'd... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1757 - 234 str.
...icafoning. VARIATIONS. VER. 238. Ed. ift. Ethereal efihnce, f;,irit, fubftance, man. ET. I. ESSAY ON MAN. 15 Heav'n's whole foundations to their centre nod, 255...to tread, Or hand, to toil, afpir'd to be the head ? 260 What if the head, the eye, or ear repin'd To fcrve mere engines to the ruling Mind ? Juft as... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1762 - 370 str.
...wreck'd , and world on world ; Heav'ns whole foundations to their centre nod , 255 And Nature tremble to the throne of God. All this dread ORDER break —...to tread, Or hand, to toil, afpir'd to be the head? 26» Juft as abfurd, to mourn the tasks or pains, 26$ The great directing MIND of all ordains. All... | |
 | Art - 1762 - 290 str.
...beautifully reprefents the extravagance, madnefs, and pride, of man's defuing to be other than what he is. What if the foot, ordain'd the duft to tread, Or hand to toil, afpir'd to be the head ? What if the head, the eye, or ear repin'd To ferve mere engines to the ruling mind ? Juft as abfurd... | |
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Planets and suns run lawless through the sky ; Let ruling angels from their spheres be hurl'd, Being on being wreck'd, and world on world ; Heaven's whole foundations to their centre nod, And Nature trembles to the throne- of God. All this dread order... 
