 | John Bell - English poetry - 1796 - 524 pages
...Benevolence: Happier as kinder, in whate'er degree, And height of bliss but height of charity. 360 God loves from whole to parts; but human soul Must...lake; The centre mov'd, a circle straight succeeds. 365 Another stil5, and still another spreads ; Friend, parent, neighbour, firstit will embrace ; His... | |
 | British periodicals - 1822 - 688 pages
...for insertion. The lines of Pope are these : — " Sd Move but serves the virtnoni mind to wafcr, AB the small pebble stirs the peaceful lake." The centre mov'd, a circle straight succeedf, Another still, and still another spreadsFriend, parent, neighbour, first it will embrace,... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1798 - 140 pages
...of benevolence : Happier as kinder, in whate'er degree, And height of bliss but height of charity. God loves from whole to parts ; but human soul Must...wake, As the small pebble stirs the peaceful lake, The center rnov'd, a circle straight succeeds, Another still, and still another spreads; =.' ' ' • —... | |
 | Edward Young - 1798 - 432 pages
...but this must be distinguished from that sordid principle which not only begins but ends in self. ' Self-love but serves the virtuous mind to wake, •As...succeeds, * Another still, and still another spreads: ' Krientl, parent, neighbour, first it will embrace, ' His country next; and next all human race.'... | |
 | John Monck Mason - 1798 - 496 pages
...Pope has adopted this beautiful image, but applied it to a different subject, in his Essay on Man—- God loves from whole to parts; but human soul Must rise from individuals to the whole. Self-love but serves the virtuous mind to wake, As the small pebble stirs... | |
 | John Brewster - 1802 - 330 pages
...of the poet, •*' As the small pebble stirs the peaceful lake i " The centre mov'da circle strait succeeds, " Another still, and still another spreads...will embrace, " His country next, and next all human raoe." Whether Mr. Pope's philosophy, which makes self-love the centre of universal philanthropy be... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1804 - 232 pages
...Benevolence : Happier as kinder, in what'er degree, And height of bliss but height of charity. 360 God loves from whole to parts ; but human soul Must...lake ; The centre mov'd, a circle straight succeeds, 365 Another still, and still another spreads ; Friend, parent, neighbour, first it will embrace ; His... | |
 | William Enfield - 1804 - 418 pages
...of benevolence : Happier as kinder , in whate'er degree, And height of Bliss but height of Charity. God loves from "Whole to Parts : But human soul Must rise from Individual to the AVhole. Self-love but serves the virtuous mind to wake, As the small pebble stirs the peaceful lake... | |
 | Literature - 1805 - 420 pages
...are diffused ; and in this order, by the constitution of our being, they weaken, as they spread, " GOD loves from whole to parts ; but human soul " Must rise from individual to the whole. " Self love but serves the virtuous mind to wake, " As the small pebble stirs the peaceful lake. «'... | |
 | Joseph Warton - 1806 - 440 pages
...Human Wishe«, by Mr. Johnson. knowledge of men and things, expressed with vigour and conciseness. 51. Self-love but serves the virtuous mind to wake, As the small pebble stirs the peaceful lake.* It is observable that this similitude, which is to be found in Silius Italicus, 1. xiii. v. 24, and... | |
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God loves from whole to parts : but human soul Must rise from individual to the whole. Self-love but serves the virtuous mind to wake, As the small pebble stirs the peaceful lake ; The centre moved, a circle straight succeeds, Another still, and still... 
