 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
 | Hannah More - 1840 - 832 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." readily force ourselves... | |
 | George Crabbe - 1840 - 332 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, nrst it will embrace; His country next; and next all human race." _ POPE.] The old and serious... | |
 | John Robert Irelan - 1886 - 536 pages
...but serves the virtuous mind to wake, As the small pebble stirs the peaceful lake ; The center moved, a circle straight succeeds, Another still, and still another spreads ; Friend, parent, neighbor, first it will embrace, His country next, and next all human race.' "I am certain, however,... | |
 | Joseph Maximillian Hark - 1888 - 304 pages
...but serves the virtuous mind to wake, As the small pebble stirs the peaceful lake: The center moved, a circle straight succeeds, Another still, and still another spreads, — Friend, parent, neighbor, first it will embrace; His country next, and next all human race; Wide and more wide, th'... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1889 - 572 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...succeeds, Another still, and still another spreads 1 ; Friend, parent, neighbour, first it will embrace; His country next; and next all human race; Take... | |
 | Charles Brodie Patterson - 1889 - 144 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, neighbor, first it will embrace; His country next, and next all human race. Wide, and more wide, the... | |
 | Charles F. Beezley - 1891 - 436 pages
...but serves the virtuous mind to wake. As the small pebble stirs the peaceful lake; The center moved, a circle straight succeeds, Another 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... | |
 | James Boaden - 1893 - 506 pages
...saw the surface differently — ' 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.' Essay on Man, IV. 363. Flutter is described by a simile which comes, oddly enough, from a female writer,... | |
 | James Boaden - 1893 - 554 pages
...disappointment. ' Self-love but serves the virtuous mind to wake, As the small pebble stirs the peaceful Like ; The centre mov'd, a circle straight succeeds, Another still, and still another spreads.' Essay on Afan, IV. 363. Flutter is described by a simile which comes, oddly enough, from a female writer,... | |
 | Alexander Pope, Sir Adolphus William Ward - 1893 - 588 pages
...which Pope speaks, constitutes the climax of 325 33° 335 340 345 350 355 360 THE UNIVERSAL PRAYER. The centre mov'd, a circle straight succeeds, Another still, and still another spreads J ; Friend, parent, neighbour, first it will embrace; His country next; and next all human race; Wide... | |
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