 | 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 - English Language - 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... | |
 | English poetry - 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... | |
 | 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 (Bp. of Gloucester), Richard Hurd - Theology - 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,... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | Henry Kirke White - Poets, English - 1813 - 730 pages
...harsh and prosaic, and there is an unpleasant cacophony in the terminations of the 5th and 6th lines. which is probably imitated, as well as most of the...the storm." The unfortunate Chatterton has — " And fides upon the pinions of the wind." And Gray — " With arms sublime that float upon the nir/' Few... | |
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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. 
