 | Kathleen Knox - 1882 - 156 sider
...comprehend the heav'n ? Or touch, if tremblingly alive all o'er, To smart and agonize at ev'ry pore ? 10 Or quick effluvia darting through the brain Die of a rose in aromatic pain ? If nature thundered in his op'ning ears And stunn'd him with the music of the spheres, How would... | |
 | Robert Kidd - 1883 - 518 sider
...comprehend the heaven. Or touch, if tremblingly alive all o'er, To smart anil agonize at every pore! Or quick effluvia darting through the brain, Die of a rose in aromatic pain! If nature thund'red in his op'ning ears, And stunned him with the music of the spheres, How would he.... | |
 | Robert Kidd - 1883 - 518 sider
...comprehend the heaven. Or touch, if tremblingly alive all o'er, To smart and agonize at every pore I Or quick effluvia darting through the brain, Die of a rose in aromatic pain! If nature thund'red in his op'ning ears, And stunned him with the music of the spheres, How would he... | |
 | William Swinton - 1886 - 690 sider
...fine that he could inspect a mite, if at the same time he were unable to comprehend the heavens ? Or, quick effluvia* darting through the brain, Die of a rose in aromatic pain ? =« If nature thundered in his opening ears, And stunned him with the music of the spheres, How would... | |
 | Robert Cochrane - 1887 - 572 sider
...comprehend the heaven ! Or touch, if tremblingly alive all o'er, To smart and agonise at every pore ? Or s that hope to be thy blessing now. Hope springs eternal in the human br ? If Nature thundered in his opening ears, And stunned him with the music of the spheres, How would... | |
 | 1891 - 544 sider
...he would cease from living in consequence of a ruined digestion arising from a surfeit of sweets, Or quick effluvia darting through the brain, Die of a rose In aromatic pain. Doubtless, the immoderate use of roses by the ancients led in after-days to their being relegated to... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1899 - 534 sider
...comprehend the heaven? Or touch, if tremblingly alive all o'er, To smart and agonise at every pore? Or quick effluvia darting through the brain, Die of a rose in aromatic pain? If nature thunder'd in his opening ears, And stunn'd him with the music of the spheres, How would he... | |
 | Thomas Humphry Ward - 1895 - 656 sider
...comprehend the heav'n? Or touch, if tremblingly alive all o'er, To smart and agonise at every pore ? Or quick effluvia darting through the brain, Die of a rose in aromatic pain ? If nature thunder'd in his op'ning ears, And stunn'd him with th2 music of the spheres, How would... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - 1896 - 794 sider
...Our bane and physic the same earth bestows, And near the noisome nettle blooms the rose. OYID. Or, quick effluvia darting through the brain, Die of a rose in aromatic pain. POPE. For her the unfading rose of Eden blooms, And wings of seraph shed divine perfumes. POPE. Thy... | |
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... share, But what his nature and his state can bear. Why has not man a microscopic eye? For this plain reason, man is not a fly. 
