 Self-love but serves the virtuous mind to wake, As the small pebble stirs the peaceful lake; The centre mov'd, a circle straight succeeds, Another still, and still another spreads ; Friend, parent, neighbour, first it will embrace ; His country next ;...  Solitude - Page 347de Johann Georg ritter von Zimmermann - 1819 - 368 pagesAffichage du livre entier - À propos de ce livre
 | David Scot - 1824 - 454 pages
...from individuals to the whole. Self-love but serves the virtuous mind to wake, As the small peeble stirs the peaceful lake ; The centre mov'd, a circle...still, and still another spreads ; Friend, parent, neighbour, first it will embrace, His country next, and next all human race ; Wide and more wide, th'... | |
 | F. Campbell - 1824 - 440 pages
...rise from individual to the whole. Self-love but serves the virtuous mind to wake, As the small pebble stirs the peaceful lake ; The centre mov'd, a circle...still, and still another spreads ; Friend, parent, neighbour, first it will embrace ; His country next, and next all human race : Wide, and more wide,... | |
 | Jesse Torrey - 1824 - 308 pages
...rise from individual to the whole. Self-love but serves the virtuous mind to wake, As the small pebble stirs the peaceful lake; The centre mov'd, a circle...still, and still another spreads: Friend, parent, neighbor, first it will embrace, His country next, and next all human race; Wide and more wide, the... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1824 - 1062 pages
...from individual to the whole. Sel f-love but serves the virtuous mind to wake, As the small pebble ting blue? Were they to feast his taste design'd,...kind ! Crush then the slow, the pilfering race, So pu neighbour, first it will embrace; His country next; and next all human race ; Wide and more wide, th'... | |
 | Thom Scott - 1824 - 622 pages
...-system in his Essay on Man : ' Self love but serves the virtuous mind to wake, As the small pebble stirs the peaceful lake ; The centre mov'd, a circle...Another still, and still another spreads; Friend, patent, neighbour, first it will embrace, His country next, and next all human race : Wide and more... | |
 | Jacques Delille - 1824 - 388 pages
...but serves the virtuous mind to wake, As the small pebble stirs the peaceful lake; The centre moved, a circle straight succeeds, Another still, and still another spreads; Friend, parent, neighbour, first it will embrace; His country next, and next all human race: Wide and more wide, the... | |
 | John Ireland - 1825 - 480 pages
...sentiment in some pleasing lines : — Self-love but serves the virtuous mind to wake, As the small pebble stirs the peaceful lake. The centre mov'd, a circle...succeeds; Another still, and still another spreads : Fviend, parent, neighbour, first it will embrace ; His country next; and next, all human race. itself... | |
 | James Hervey - 1825 - 460 pages
...manner of statinj the affair, than in the following famous lines: Self-love hut serves the virtuous mind to wake, As the small pehhle stirs the peaceful lake: The centre mov'd, a circle strait succeeds, Another still, and still another spreads. Friend,parent, neighhour, first it will... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1825 - 536 pages
...but serves the virtuous mind to wake, As the small pebble stirs the peaceful lake ; The centre moved, a circle straight succeeds, Another still, and still another spreads ; Friend, parent, neighbour, first it will embrace ; His country next, and next all human race ; Wide and more wide,... | |
 | British anthology - 1825 - 460 pages
...but serves the virtuous mind to wake, As the small pebble stirs the peaceful lake ; The centre moved, a circle straight succeeds, Another still, and still another spreads; Friend, parent, neighbour, first it will embrace; His country next, and next all human race; Wide and more wide, the... | |
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