 | John Monck Mason - 1798 - 467 pages
...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...first it will embrace, His country next, and next all human race; Wide, and more wide, th' o'erflowings of the mind Take every creature in, of every... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1798
...but serves the virtuous mind to wake, As the small pebble stirs the peaceful lake, The center rnov'd, a circle straight succeeds, Another still, and still...first it will embrace ; His country next ; and next all human race ; Wide and more wide, th' o'erflo wings of the mind Take ev'ry creature in, of ev'ry... | |
 | John Monck Mason - 1798 - 67 pages
...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...first it will embrace, His country next, and next all human race; Wide, and more wide, th' o'erflowings of the mind Take every creature in, of every... | |
 | John Brewster - 1802
...of the poet, •*' As the small pebble stirs the peaceful lake i " The centre mov'da circle strait succeeds, " Another still, and still another spreads...first it will embrace, " His country next, and next all human raoe." Whether Mr. Pope's philosophy, which makes self-love the centre of universal philanthropy... | |
 | James Wilson, Bird Wilson - 1804 - 1464 pages
...delight in the agreeable conception of the improvement and happiness of mankind. The centre mov'd, a circle straight succeeds, Another still, and still...first it will embrace, His country next, and next all human race ; Wide and more wide, th' o'erflowings of the mind Take ev'ry creature in, of ev'ry... | |
 | William Enfield - 1804 - 376 pages
...virtuous mind to wake, As the small pebble stirs the peaceful lake ; The centre mov'da circle strait succeeds , Another, still , and still another spreads...first it will embrace : His country next ; and next all human race ; "Wide and more wide , th' o'erflowings of the mind Take every creature in , of ev'ry... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1804 - 754 pages
...wake, As the small pebble stirs the peaceful lake ; The centre mov'd, a circle straight succeeds, 365 Another still, and still another spreads ; Friend,...first it will embrace ; His country next, and next all human race : Wide and more wide th' o'erflowings of the mind Take ev'ry creature in of ev'ry kind... | |
 | 1803
...peaceful lake ; The centre moves, a circle straight fucceeds. Another .still, and still, another fpreads, Friend, parent, neighbour first It will embrace, His country next, and next all human race, Wide and more wide the o'erflowings of the mind, Take every creature in, of every kind.... | |
 | 1805
...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, neighbor, first it will embrace ; " His country next, and next, all human race." POPZ. In vain we endeavour... | |
 | 1806 - 380 pages
...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...first it will embrace ; His country next; and next all human race; Wide and more wide, th' o'erflowings of the mind Take ev'ry creature in, of ev'ry kind... | |
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God loves from whole to parts: but human soul Must 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 moved, a circle straight succeeds, Another still, and still another... 
