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" Why form'd no weaker, blinder, and no less? Ask of thy mother earth, why oaks are made Taller or stronger than the weeds they shade? Or ask of yonder argent fields above, Why JOVE'S Satellites are less than JOVE? "
The Paisley magazine Vol 1 - Page 459
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The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope: With Memoir, Critical ..., Volume 1

Alexander Pope, George Gilfillan - 1856 - 356 pages
...blind \ First, if thou canst, the harder reason guess, Why form'd no weaker, blinder, and no less 1 Ask of thy mother earth, why oaks are made Taller or stronger than the weeds they shade \ 40 Or ask of yonder argent fields above, Why Jove's satellites are less than Jove \ Of systems possible,...
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The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope: With Memoir, Critical ..., Volume 1

Alexander Pope - 1856 - 352 pages
...blind ? First, if thou canst, the harder reason guess, Why form'd no weaker, blinder, and no less 1 Ask of thy mother earth, why oaks are made Taller or stronger than the weeds they shade \ 40 Or ask of yonder argent fields above, Why Jove's satellites are less than Jove \ Of systems possible,...
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Autobiographical Sketches and Recollections: During a Thirty-five Years ...

Theodore Clapp - 1857 - 470 pages
...guess, \V hy made no weaker, blinder, and no less ; Ask of thy mother earth why oaks arc made Taller and stronger than the weeds they shade; Or ask of yonder...fields above Why Jove's satellites are less than Jove; Say not, then, man's imperfect, Heaven in fault; Say, rather, man's as perfect as he ought, His knowledge...
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The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope: With a Life, Volume 2

Alexander Pope - 1859 - 330 pages
...blind ! First, if thou canst, the harder reason guess Why form'd no weaker, blinder, and no less ? Ask of thy mother earth why oaks are made Taller or...fields above Why Jove's satellites are less than Jove ! Of systems possible, if 'tis confest That wisdom infinite must form the best, Where all must full...
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The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope

Alexander Pope - 1859 - 504 pages
...blind ! First, if thou canst, the harder reason guess, Why form'd no weaker, blinder, and no less ! me, O Neptune ! thou wceds they shade ! Or ask of yonder argent fields above, Why JOVE'S satellites are less than JOVE !...
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Les Ennéades de Plotin, Volume 2

Plotinus - 1859 - 838 pages
...formulée ici : Presomptuous Man ! The reason wouldsl thou flnd Why formed so weak, so liltle and so blind! Ask of thy mother earth why oaks are made Taller or stronger than thé weed they shade, etc. ligence n'est pas un être particulier ; elle est tous les êtres [intelligibles]...
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Poetical Works: To which is Prefixed a Life of the Author

Alexander Pope - 1860 - 632 pages
...blind? [find, First, if thou canst, the harder reason guess, Why form'd no weaker, blinder, and no less? Ask of thy mother earth, why oaks are made Taller or stronger than the weeds they shade 1 41 Or ask of yonder argent fields above, Why Jove's satellites are less than Jove. Of systems possible,...
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Essay on man, and The universal prayer

Alexander Pope - 1860 - 60 pages
...so blind? First, if thou canst, the harder reason guess, Why form'd no weaker, blinder, and no less? Ask of thy mother Earth,' why oaks are made Taller or stronger than' the -weeds'they shade; Or ask of yonder argent' fields' above; :• Why Jove's satellites are' less.,-than:-Jove....
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The Cornhill Magazine, Volume 125

William Makepeace Thackeray - 1922 - 784 pages
...twin when they speak of a ' satellite,' formed in the same way from the plural ' satellites ' — ' Or ask of yonder argent fields above Why Jove's satellites are less than Jove ' (Pope, ' Essay on Man,' L 42). ERNEST WEEKLET. A PARIS CAUSERIE. III. IT is said, I know not with...
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Elementary lessons in English etymology, Part 1

O Allen Ferris - 1862 - 118 pages
...December the days are shorter than the nights. " A fairer person (Belial) lost not heaven." — MH. " Ask of thy Mother Earth why oaks are made Taller or stronger than the weeds they shade." — POPE. 36. — est denotes the superlative degree, gives the meaning most. I. Words ending in two...
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