As man, perhaps, the moment of his breath Receives the lurking principle of death; The young disease, that must subdue at length, Grows with his growth, and strengthens with his strength; So, cast and mingled with his very frame. Der Mensch, ein philosophisches Gedicht - Page 19by Alexander Pope - 1772 - 351 pagesFull view - About this book
| Henry George Bohn - Quotations, English - 1881 - 738 pages
...DISEASES. Diseases, desperate grown, By desperate appliance are reliev'd, Or not at all. 8h. Ham. IV. 3. As man, perhaps, the moment of his breath, Receives the lurking principle of death ; The young disease, that must subdue at length, Grows with his growth, and strengthens with his strength. DISGUISE.... | |
| Francis Wharton, Moreton Stillé - Forensic psychiatry - 1882 - 832 pages
...the frame : And hence one master -passion in the breast, Like Aaron's serpent, swallows up the rest. As man, perhaps, the moment of his breath, Receives the lurking principle of death : The young disease, which must subdue at length, Grows with his growth, and strengthens with his strength ; So,... | |
| Jehiel Keeler Hoyt - Quotations, English - 1882 - 914 pages
...age is heavy, cold, and drear, As winter's rocks of snow. ic. THOMAS LOVE PEACOCK— Youth and Age. him how to tell my story, And that would woo her. r. Othello. Act I. Sc. 3. Take no repulse, disease that must subdue at length, Grows with his growth, and strengthens with his strength. x. POPE... | |
| Craufurd Tait Ramage - Quotations, Latin - 1884 - 694 pages
...disease and misery." Pope also (" Essay on Man," Ep. ii. 1. 133) says somewhat to the same effect:— " As man, perhaps, the moment of his breath, Receives the lurking principle of death, The young disease, that must subdue at length, Grows with his growth and strengthens with his strength." And... | |
| Craufurd Tait Ramage - Quotations, Latin - 1884 - 688 pages
...disease and misery.'' Pope also ("Essay on Man," Ep. ii. 1. 133) says somewhat to the same effect:— " As man, perhaps, the moment of his breath, Receives the lurking principle of death, The young disease, that must subdue at length, Grows with his growth and strengthens with his strength." And... | |
| Robert Cochrane - Authors, English - 1887 - 572 pages
...the frame ; And hence one MASTEII PASSION in the breast, Like Aaron's serpent, swallows up the rest. l her grandchildren, yet in an especial manner she might be said to love tbeir uncle, John L , disease, that must subdue at length, Grows with his growth, and strengthens with his strength ; So... | |
| Factory inspection - 1887 - 430 pages
...carry with them the seeds with which they have been impregnated during an unhealthy upbringing : " ' A man, perhaps the moment of his breath, Receives the lurking principle of death; The young disease, which must sulidue at length, Grows with his growth, and strengthens with his strength.' "... | |
| Alexander Pope - Poets, English - 1871 - 542 pages
...the frame ;' And hence one master passion in the breast, Like Aaron's serpent, swallows up the rest.5 As man, perhaps, the moment of his breath, Receives the lurking principle of death ; The young disease, that must subdue at length, Grows with his growth, and strengthens with his strength : So,... | |
| Frank Walters - 1889 - 198 pages
...only waits for the strong temptation to assail the citadel of the moral being. Pope tells us : — As man, perhaps, the moment of his breath, Receives the lurking principle of death ; The young disease, that must subdue at length, Grows with his growth, and strengthens with his strength ; So... | |
| Lyon Playfair Baron Playfair - Education - 1889 - 408 pages
...carry with them the seeds with which they have been impregnated during an unhealthy upbringing : — "A man, perhaps the moment of his breath, Receives the lurking principle of death ; The young disease which must subdue at length, Grows with his growth, and strengthens with his strength." We... | |
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