 Thy godlike crime was to be kind. To render with thy precepts less The sum of human wretchedness. And strengthen Man with his own mind ; But baffled as thou wert from high. Still in thy patient energy, In the endurance, and repulse Of thine impenetrable...  Miscellanies: Occasional pieces, 1807-1824 - Page 176by George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1837Full view - About this book
 | 1843 - 798 pages
...commune wilh Heaven. Such poets are the benefactors of their race ; They render wilh their precept» leas The sum of human wretchedness And strengthen man with his own mind. We know that Mr. Longfellow has reaped, in no scanty measure, that harvest of grateful acknowledgment,... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - Bookbinders - 1815 - 324 pages
...a vain repentance, And evil dread so ill dissembled That in his hand the lightnings trembled. III. Thy Godlike crime was to be kind, To render with thy...his own mind ; But baffled as thou wert from high, StiH in thy patient energy, In the endurance, and repulse Of thine impenetrable Spirit, Which Earth... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1818 - 216 pages
...a vain repentance, And evil dread so ill dissembled That in his hand the lightnings trembled. III. Thy Godlike crime was to be kind, To render with thy...thou wert from high, Still in thy patient energy, 1n the endurance, and repulse Of thine impenetrable Spirit, % Which Earth and Heaven could not convulse,... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1820 - 306 pages
...a vain repentance, And evil dread so ill dissembled That in his hand the lightnings trembled. III. Thy Godlike crime was to be kind, To render with thy precepts less The sum of human wretchedness, But baffled as thou wert from high, Still in thy patiant energy, In the endurance, and repulse Of thine... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1821 - 308 pages
...a vain repentance, And evil dread so ill dissembled That in his hand the lightnings trembled. III. Thy Godlike crime was to be kind, To render with thy...Spirit, Which Earth and Heaven could not convulse, Thou art a symbol and a sign To Mortals of their fate and force; Like thee, Man is in part divine,... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1821 - 304 pages
...a vain repentance, And evil dread so ill dissembled That in his hand the lightnings trembled. III. Thy Godlike crime was to be kind, To render with thy...endurance, and repulse Of thine impenetrable Spirit, Thou art a symbol and a sign To Mortals of their fate and force; Like thee, Man is in part divine,... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1824 - 332 pages
...dread so ill dissemhled That in his hand the lightnings tremhled. III. Thy Godlike crime was to he kind, To render with thy precepts less The sum of...wretchedness, And strengthen Man with his own mind; But haffled as thou wert from high, Still in thy patient energy, In the endurance, and repulse Of thine... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1826 - 852 pages
...To render with thy precepU lee» The sum of human wretchedncM, And strengthen Man with his own utimd But baffled as thou wert from high, Still in thy patient energy, In the endurance, and repnlse Of thine impenetrable Spirit, Which Earth and Heaven could ««•( <« vnlse, A mighty lesson... | |
 | William Darlington - Mythology - 1832 - 350 pages
...began With vigour then, to mend its halting pace, And found a more compendious way to man." — HORACE. '•Thy godlike crime was to be kind, To render with thy precepts less The sum of human misery than wretchedness, And strengthen man with his own mind." — BYRON. Obs. 1. — Prometheus... | |
 | Theology - 1836 - 424 pages
...done for her race, we have a confident expectation that she will do more. Her " godlike aim is to make less The sum of human wretchedness, And strengthen man with his own mind." Her field is the world, and there are but few reapers to the harvest into which she has thrust her... | |
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