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" Who sees with equal eye, as God of all, A hero perish, or a sparrow fall, Atoms or systems into ruin hurl'd, And now a bubble burst, and now a world. "
Common Courtesy in Eighteenth-century English Literature - Page 46
by William Bowman Piper - 1997 - 200 pages
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The works of Alexander Pope. With a selection of explanatory notes ..., Volume 3

Alexander Pope - 1812 - 348 pages
...blood. Oh blindness to the future! kindly giv'n, 85 That each may fill the circle mark'd by Heav'n : Who sees with equal eye, as God of all, A hero perish, or a sparrow fall, Atoms After ver. 68. the following lines in the first edition : If to be perfect in a certain sphere, What...
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The Lectures Corrected and Improved, which Have Been Delivered for a Series ...

Samuel Stanhope Smith - Ethics - 1812 - 740 pages
...suseeptible of the most exquisite sensations of happy existenee. And in the eye of the infinite being, Who sees with equal eye, as God of all, A hero perish, or a sparrow fall, there is mueh less differenee between an inseet, and a man, than our vanity inelines us to eoneeive....
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English 18th Century Dances, Volume 2

Akeroyde's padd (Dance) - 1812 - 352 pages
...means an indirect charge of partiality against our Divine Creator. " He sees with equal eye, as Lord of all, A hero perish, or a sparrow fall, Atoms or systems into ruin hurl'd, And now a bubble burst, and DOW a world. Sufficiently humbled, I hope, by an enlarged view of ihtj...
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Moral Views, Or, The Telescope, for Children

Margaret Roberts - Children - 1812 - 194 pages
...the rainbow, and ordain'd the shower, Gave to the lightning wings, the thunder power— Observes "• with equal eye, as God of all, A Hero perish, or a Robin fall." CHAPTER ON CATS. " Jl HATE cats/' said little George, as he jumped away from poor Tib,...
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The Improvement of the Mind: Or, A Supplement to the Art of Logic

Isaac Watts - Education - 1813 - 368 pages
...hot to represent it in all its grandeur; So when the supremacy of a God is described, • • \ He sees with equal eye, as God of all, A hero perish, or a sparrow fall : Atoms or systems, into ruin hurled, And now a bubble burst, and now a world. 4 a This sort of writings have a natural tendency...
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The Works of the Rev. Isaac Watts D.D. in Nine Volumes, Volume 8

Isaac Watts - Dissenters, Religious - 1813 - 590 pages
...not to represent it in all ils grandeur. So when the supremacy of a God is described, fíe tent nit h equal eye, as God of all, A Hero perish, or a sparrow fall : Atoms or systems, into ruin hurl'd, And nom a bubble burst, and nom a world, POPE. These sort of writings have a natural tendency " to...
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Elegant poems. Pope's Essay on man, Blair's Grave, Gray's Elegy, Goldsmith's ...

Elegant poems - 1814 - 132 pages
...spirits know, Or who could suffer being here below ? 80 That each may fill the circle mark'd by heav'n ; Who sees, with equal eye, as God of all, A hero perish,...sparrow fall ; Atoms or systems into ruin hurl'd, And now a bubble burst, and now a world. 90 The Lamb thy riot dooms to bleed to-day, Had he thy reason,...
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The Improvement of the Mind: To which is Added, a Discourse on the Education ...

Isaac Watts - Education - 1814 - 524 pages
...pott fails not to represent it in all its grandeur. So when the supremacy of a God is described : He sees with equal eye, as God of all, A hero perish,...sparrow fall; Atoms or systems, into ruin hurl'd, And now a bubble burst, and now a world. Pope. These sorts of writing have a natural tendency to •nlarge...
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The English Reader, Or Pieces in Prose and Poetry: Selected from the Best ...

Lindley Murray - 1815 - 276 pages
...to shed his blood.' Oh blindness to the future J kindly given, That each may fill the circle tnark'd by heaven; Who sees with equal eye, as God of all,...perish, or a sparrow fall ; Atoms or systems, into ruin hurFd, ** And now a bubble burst, and now a world. Hope humbly then ; with trembling pinions soar Wait...
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Tales of the Robin, and Other Small Birds: Selected from the British Poets ...

Joseph Taylor - Birds - 1815 - 170 pages
...rainbow, and ordain'd the shower, Gave to the lightning wings, the thunder power, __ g Observes, " with equal eye, as God of all, A hero perish, or a Robin fall." Moral Fiesx. On a REDBREAST. AMID the storm, disordered high in air, It chanc'da solitary...
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