 | Alexander Pope - 1798 - 140 pages
...preserves the whole. On life's vast ocean diversely we sail, Reason the card, but passion is the gale ; Nor God alone in the still calm we find, He mounts the storm, and walks upon the wind. Passions, like elements, th'o' born to fight, Yet, mix'd and soften'd, in his... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1804 - 232 pages
...the whole. On life's vast ocean diversely we sail : Reason the card, but passion is the gale ; Nor God alone in the still calm we find ; He mounts the storm, and walks upon the wind. 110 Passions like elements, tho' born to fight, Yet mix'd and soften'd in his... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1805 - 954 pages
...Can steer the ship in cu,,:, ; but he performs M í "i P?*' can тапа§е h in storms. Dt,,t. Nor God alone in the still calm we find • He mounts the storm, aud walks upon the wind. a. Freedom from disturbance ; quiet ; repose : applied to the passions. Great... | |
 | 1806 - 408 pages
...preserves the whole. On life's vast ocean diversely we sail, Reason the card, but Passion is the gale ; Nor God alone in the still calm we find, He mounts the storm, and walks upon the wind. Passions, like elements, tho' born to fight, Yet, mix'd and soften' d, in his... | |
 | Henry Kirke White - 1807 - 320 pages
...Se circum fulyo nebularum involvit amid u, Praetenditque cavis piceas in nubibus nndas. 196 \vhich is probably imitated, as well as most of the following,...directs the storm." The unfortunate Chatterton has — " And rides upon the pinions of the wind." And Gray — " With arms sublime that float upon the... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1808 - 334 pages
...preserves the whole. On life's vast ocean diversely we sail, Reason the card, but passion is the gale ; Nor God alone in the still calm we find, He mounts the storm, and walks upon the wind. Passions, like elements, though born to fight, Yet, mix'd and softeu'd, in his... | |
 | Alexander Pope, Thomas Park - 1808 - 328 pages
...the whole. On life's vast ocean diversely we sail, Reason the card, but passion is the gale ; Nor 6od alone in the still calm we find, He mounts the storm, and walks upon the wind. Passions, like elements, though born to fight, Yet, inix'd and soften'd, in his... | |
 | William Warburton - 1811 - 444 pages
...is " not only produced by the subdual of the passions, but " by the turbulent exercise of them:" Nor God alone in the still calm we find, He mounts the storm) and walks upon the wind. A truth conveyed under the most sublime imagery that poetry could conceive or... | |
 | William Warburton (Bp. of Gloucester), Richard Hurd - 1811 - 446 pages
...Stoics, which he illustrates by a very beautiful similitude, on a hint taken from Scripture story*; Nor God alone in the still calm we find, . ' He mounts the storm, and walks upon the wind. But the Translator, not taking this allusion, has turn'd it thus : Dieu lui-me'me,... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1812 - 348 pages
...108 in the MS. A tedious voyage ! where how useless lies The compass, if no pow'rful gust arise ? Nor God alone in the still calm we find, He mounts the storm, and walks upon the wind, no Passions, like elements, tho' born to fight, Yet, mix'd and soften'd, in his... | |
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Parts it may ravage, but preserves the whole. On life's vast ocean diversely we sail, Reason the card, but Passion is the gale ; Nor God alone in the still calm we find, He mounts the storm, and walks upon the wind. 
