 | Jonathan Swift - 1784 - 424 страници
...truth (or to fpeak more like a human creature, to the appearances of truth) we foon find the mortnefs of our tether. Indeed by the help of a metaphyfical...fay a little to no purpofe, than a great deal. Lord Bolingbroke is voluminous, but he is voluminous only to deftroy volumes. I fhall not live, I fear,... | |
 | Jonathan Swift, John Hawkesworth - 1784 - 414 страници
...(or, to fpeak more like-a human creature, to the appearances of truth), we foon find the fhortnefs of our tether. Indeed, by the help of a metaphyfical...progrefs beyond the point to which Providence has pinned us. But this does not fatisfy me, who would rather fay a little to no purpofe, than a great... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1801 - 424 страници
...appearances of truth) we soon find the shortness of our tether. Indeed by the help of a metaphysical chain of ideas, one may extend the circulation, go round and round for ever, without making any progress beyond the point to which Providence has pinned us: but this does not satisfy me, who would... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1806 - 540 страници
...truth (or to fpeak more like a human creature, to the appearances of truth) we foon find the fhortnefs of our Tether. Indeed, by the help of a metaphyfical...progrefs beyond the point to which Providence has pinned us : but this does not fatisfy me-, who would rather fay a little to no purpofe, than a great... | |
 | Alexander Pope, William Lisle Bowles - 1806 - 538 страници
...truth (or to fpeak more like a human creature, to the appearances of truth) we foon find the fhortnefs of our Tether. Indeed, by the help of a metaphyfical...may extend the circulation, go round and round for elver, without making any progrefs beyond the point to which Providence has pinned us : but this does... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1812 - 350 страници
...appearances of truth) we soon find the shortness of our tether. Indeed, by the help of a metaphysical chain of ideas, one may extend the circulation, go round and round for ever, without making any progress beyond the point to which Providence has pinned us: but this does not satisfy me, who would... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1814 - 500 страници
...appearances of truth) we soon find the shortness of our tether. In.deed by the help of a metaphysical chain of ideas, one may extend the circulation, go round and round for ever, without making any progress beyond the point to which Providence has pinned us ; but this .does not satisfy me, who would... | |
 | Jonathan Swift, Walter Scott - 1814 - 500 страници
...appearances of truth) we soon find the shortness of our tether. Indeed by the help of a metaphysical chain of ideas, one may extend the circulation, go round and round for ever, without making any progress beyond the point to which Providence has pinned us ; but this does not satisfy me, who would... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1822 - 446 страници
...appearances of truth) we 8d6fl find the shortness of our Tether. Indeed by the help of a metaphysical chain of Ideas, one may extend the circulation, go round and round for ever, without making any progress towards the point to which Providence has pinned us : but this does not satisfy me, who would... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1824 - 596 страници
...uniformly asserted by Pope, and which connects the present with a future state, as right upon the whole. extend the circulation, go round and round for ever, without making any progress beyond the point to which Providence has pinned us : but this does not satisfy me, who would... | |
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... I've been long ago, of my Wit ; my fyftem is a fhort one, and my circle narrow. Imagination has no limits, and that is... 
