 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.  The Works of Alexander Pope Esq - Página 37de Alexander Pope - 1751Vista completa - Acerca de este libro
 | Lyon Playfair Baron Playfair - 1889 - 408 páginas
...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... | |
 | Richard Garnett - 1890 - 448 páginas
...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, that must subdue at length, Grows with his growth, and strengthens with his strength : So,... | |
 | Sanitary Institute - 1890 - 398 páginas
...fortified as to become extremely virulent and rapidly fatal. The words of Pope almost fit the process:— " 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." The... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1892 - 212 páginas
...2. intr. 14, uses the same illustration, but, by a lapse of memory, says, ' Moses* serpent.' 1. 133. As man, perhaps, the moment of his breath Receives the lurking principle of death. Manilius, Astronomica, 4. 16: * Nascentes morimur, finisque ab origine pendet.* Seneca, Here. Fur.... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1899 - 534 páginas
...the frame ; And hence one MASTER PASSION in the breast, : Like Aaron's serpent, swallows np the rest. 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... | |
 | 1894 - 916 páginas
...and misery." Pope also (" Essay on Man," Ep. il. 1. 188) says somewhat to the same effect: — • " ses. And disease, that must subdue at length. Grows with his growth and strengthens with his strength." And... | |
 | 1896 - 1224 páginas
...diseases here the strongest fence, Is the defensive vertue, abstinence. ». HERRICK — Abstinence. ve him ; Some griefs are mcdicinahle. disease, that must subdue at length, Grows with his growth, and strengthens with his strength. j. POPE... | |
 | Andrew Lang, Donald Grant Mitchell - 1898 - 578 páginas
...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, that must subdue at length, Grows with his growth, and strengthens with his strength : So,... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1899 - 141 páginas
...strike ; Hence difFrent passions more or less inflame, As strong or weak, the organs of the frame ; 130 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,... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1900 - 782 páginas
...despotic sway the breast, And drags us on by viewless chain, While taste and reason plead in vain.1 1 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,... | |
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