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" Who knows but He whose hand the lightning forms, Who heaves old ocean, and who wings the storms, Pours fierce ambition in a Caesar's mind... "
Biographical and Critical Essays: Reprinted from Reviews, with Additions and ... - Page 257
by Abraham Hayward - 1874 - 411 pages
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An essay on man. Cornish ed

Alexander Pope - 1798 - 140 pages
...likewise to some greater good in the moral, as appears from the sublime images in the following lines : , If plagues or earthquakes break not heaven's design, Why then a Borgia or a Catiline ? Who knows but he, whose hand the lightning forms, Who heaves old ocean, and who wings the storms,...
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The Historical, biographical, literary, and scientific magazine ..., Volume 1

Robert Bisset - 636 pages
...who consequently has infinitely greater credit with them : Pope upon this subject elegantly observes: If plagues or earthquakes break not Heaven's design, Why then a Borgia or a Catiline ? Who knows but he whose hand the lightnings form, Who heaves old Ocean, and who wings the storm, Pour'd...
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Essays and Treatises on Several Subjects, Volume 1

David Hume - 1804 - 592 pages
...vices and imperfections of mtit are also comprehended in the order of the universe : Jf plagues and earthquakes break not heaven's design, Why then a BORGIA or a CATILINE ? Let this be allowed ; and my own vices will also be ^ part of the same order. To one who said, that...
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The Memoirs of Charles Westcote: In which is Introduced the History of the ...

1807 - 350 pages
...the medium, physical ne^' cessity the immediate cause of a change of ^overnim-nt in that country. " If plagues or earthquakes break not heaven's design, " Why then a Borgia or a Cataliue ?" We are not proof against impressions, and " every act of the will is invariably in proportion...
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The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope: In Four Volumes. Collated with the ...

Alexander Pope, Thomas Park - 1808 - 328 pages
...man's desires ; As much eternal springs and cloudless skies, As men for ever temperate, calm, and wise. If plagues or earthquakes break not Heaven's design, Why then a Borgia or a Catiline? Who knows but He, whose hand the lightuing forms, Who heaves old ocean, and who wings the storms, Pours...
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Poetical Works

Alexander Pope - 1808 - 334 pages
...man's desires ; As much eternal springs and cloudless skies, As men for ever temperate, calm, and wise. If plagues or earthquakes break not Heaven's design, Why then a Borgia or a Catiline ? Who knows but He, whose hand the lightning forms, Who heaves old ocean, and who wiugs the storms,...
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The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope, Esq: To which is Prefixed the Life of ...

Alexander Pope - 1808 - 702 pages
...man's desires; As mnch eternal springs and clondless skies, As men for ever temperate, calm, and wise. If plagues or earthquakes break not Heaven's design, Why then a Borgia, or a Cataline ? Who knows, but lie whose hand the lightning forms, Who heaves old Ocean, and who wings the...
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The Works of the English Poets, from Chaucer to Cowper: Including ..., Volume 12

Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 546 pages
...man's desires; As much eternal springs and cloudless skies, As men for ever temperate, calm, and wise. If plagues or earthquakes break not Heaven's design, Why then a Borgia, or a Catalinej Who knows, but he whose hand the lightning forms. Who heaves old Ocean, and who wings the...
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Broome, Pope, Pitt, Thomson

Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 536 pages
...man's desires; As much eternal springs and cloudless skies, As men for ever temperate, calm, and wise. If plagues or earthquakes break not Heaven's design, Why then a Borgia, or,a Catallne; Who knows, but be whose hand the lightning forms, Who heaves old Ocean, and who w iups...
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The Works of the Right Reverend William Warburton, D.D., Lord ..., Volume 11

William Warburton (Bp. of Gloucester), Richard Hurd - 1811 - 446 pages
...Commentaire, p. 79. f Examen de 1'Essai, &c. but but to the perfection of the universe in general. So that, If plagues or earthquakes break not Heaven's design, Why then a Borgia- or a Catiline ? On which the Examiner thus descants, — " These lines " have no sense but on the system of Leibnitz,...
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