Fear made her devils, and weak hope her gods; Gods partial, changeful, passionate, unjust, Whose attributes were rage, revenge, or lust; Such as the souls of cowards might conceive, And, form'd like tyrants, tyrants would believe. Essays : on self-love - Página 453por William Hazlitt - 1836Vista completa - Acerca de este libro
| Alexander Pope - 1879 - 130 páginas
...every- 262. They.] The lightning thing that he had made, and and thunder, behold it was very good.' Gods partial, changeful, passionate, unjust, Whose attributes were rage, revenge, or lust ; Such as the souls of cowards might conceive, And, formed like tyrants, tyrants would believe. 260... | |
| Leslie Stephen - 1880 - 238 páginas
...rise; There fix'd the dreadful, there the blest abodes; Fear made her devils, and weak hope her gods; Gods partial, changeful, passionate, unjust, Whose attributes were rage, revenge, or lust; Such as the souls of cowards might conceive, And, framed like tyrants, tyrants would believe." If the... | |
| Leslie Stephen - 1880 - 246 páginas
...; There fix'd the dreadful, there the blest abodes ; Fear made her devils, and weak hope her gods ; Gods partial, changeful, passionate, unjust, Whose attributes were rage, revenge, or lust ; Such as the souls of cowards might conceive, And, framed like tyrants, tyrants would believe. If... | |
| 1881 - 578 páginas
...: Here fixed the dreadful, there the blest abodes r Fear made her devils, and weak hope her gods : uth, to hom ; Such as the souls of cowards might conceive, And, formed like tyrants, tyrants would believe. Zeal... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1881 - 150 páginas
...rise : Here fix'd the dreadful, there the blest abodes ; Fear made her devils, and weak hope her gods; Gods partial, changeful, passionate, unjust, Whose attributes were rage, revenge, or lust; Such as the souls of cowards might conceive, And, form'd like tyrants, tyrants would believe. 260 Zeal... | |
| 1881 - 540 páginas
...ascribed to them. And thus, as the poet has not more strongly than truly expressed it, they made their " Gods partial, changeful, passionate, unjust , Whose attributes were rage, revenge, or lust." — The Jewish Messenger says : " The time is fast approaching when it will be necessary to organize... | |
| Cassell, ltd - 1883 - 562 páginas
...; Here fix'd the dreadful, there the blest abodes ; Fear made her Devils, and weak Hope her Gods ; Gods partial, changeful, passionate, unjust, Whose attributes were Rage, Revenge, or Lust, Such as the souls of cowards might conceive, And, fonn'd like tyrants, tyrant« would believe. 260... | |
| Atlantis - 1884 - 234 páginas
...rate. Conceding then that all old Divine conceptions and characters were based on Anthropomorphism — Gods partial, changeful, passionate, unjust, Whose attributes were rage, revenge, or lust, Such as the souls of cowards might conceive, And, formed like tyrants, tyrants would believe, — the... | |
| Mark Pattison - 1885 - 316 páginas
...philosophy had been a protest of six centuries against an immoral deity, against the gods of the nations — gods partial, changeful, passionate, unjust, whose attributes were rage, revenge, or lust. It was inevitable that, as soon as there arose among the Christians teachers who had any tincture of Greek... | |
| Ludwig Herrig - 1885 - 752 páginas
...rise: Here fix'd the dreadful, there the blest abodes; 15 Fear made her Devils, and weak Hope her Gods; 0 ': Such as the souls of cowards might conceive, And, form'd like tyrants, tyrants would believe. 20 on... | |
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