 If plagues or earthquakes break not Heaven's design, Why then a Borgia, or a Catiline? Who knows but He, whose hand the lightning forms, Who heaves old Ocean, and who wings the storms; Pours fierce ambition in a Caesar's mind, Or turns young Ammon loose...  The Historical, biographical, literary, and scientific magazine, conducted ... - Page 139edited by Full view - About this book
 | John Selby Watson - 1863 - 760 pages
...exhorted to compare the condition of things in the moral world with that of things in the natural world : If plagues or earthquakes break not Heaven's design, Why then a Borgia or "a Catiline? Yes, says Crousaz, the mixture and agitation, often strong and vehement, of the particles of matter,... | |
 | 1864 - 990 pages
..." Then say not, Man's imperfect ; Heaven's in fault : Say rather, Man's as perfect as he ought." " If plagues or earthquakes break not Heaven's design, Why then a Borgia, or Catiline ? Who knows but He, whose hand the lightning forms, Who heaves old ocean, and who wings the... | |
 | William Chambers - 1865 - 220 pages
...to infamy. 10. What English poet refers to Borgia ? — Pope, in his Eitay on Man, has the lines : ' If plagues or earthquakes break not Heaven's design, Why then a Borgia, or a Catiline ?' 11. Wliat was the Florentine Republic? — It was one of several eminent, though small aristocratic... | |
 | 1866 - 328 pages
...man's desires ; As much eternal springs and cloudless skies, As men for ever temperate, calm, and wise. If plagues or earthquakes break not Heaven's design,...Borgia or a Catiline ? Who knows but He, whose hand the lightning forms, Who heaves old ocean, and who wings the storms, Pours fierce ambition in a Caesar's... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1867 - 626 pages
...man's desires ; As much eternal springs and cloudless skies, As men for ever temperate, calm, and wise. If plagues or earthquakes break not Heaven's design,...or a Catiline ? Who knows, but He, whose hand the lightning forms, Who heaves old Ocean, and who wings the storms ; Pours fierce ambition in a Caesar's... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1867 - 520 pages
...Man's desires ; As much eternal springs and cloudless skies, As men for ever temperate, calm, and wise. If plagues or earthquakes break not Heaven's design,...Borgia, or a Catiline ? Who knows but He, whose hand the lightning forms, Who heaves old ocean, and who wings the storms : Pours fierce ambition in a Caesar's... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1867 - 72 pages
...desires ; As much eternal springs and cloudless skies, " As men forever temperate, calm, and wise. If plagues or earthquakes break not Heaven's design, Why then a Borgia or a Catiline ? Who knows, but lie whose hand the lightning forms, Who heaves old ocean, and who wings the storms, Pours fierce ambition... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1869 - 168 pages
...cloudless skies, As men for ever temp'rate, calm, and wise. If plagues or earthquakes break not Heav'n's design, ^ Why then a Borgia, or a Catiline ? Who knows but he, whose hand the light'ning forms, Who heaves old ocean, and who wings the storms ; Pours fierce ambition in a Caesar's... | |
 | Alexander Pope - English poetry - 1869 - 512 pages
...Man's desires ; As much eternal springs and cloudless skies, As men for ever temperate, calm, and wise. If plagues or earthquakes break not Heaven's design, Why then a Borgia, or a Catiline I Who knows but He, whose hand the lightning forms, Who heaves old ocean, and who wings the storms... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1869 - 570 pages
...As Men for ever temp'rate, calm, and wise. If plagues or earthquakes break not Heav'n's design, 155 Why then a Borgia, or a Catiline? Who knows but he, whose hand the lightning forms, Who heaves old Ocean, and who wings the storms j Pours fierce Ambition in a Cœsar's... | |
| |
