 Fear made her devils, and weak hope her gods; Gods partial, changeful, passionate, unjust, Whose attributes were rage, revenge, or lust; Such as the souls of cowards might conceive, And, form'd like tyrants, tyrants would believe.  Literary Remains of the Late William Hazlitt - Page 451by William Hazlitt - 1836Full view - About this book
 | John Bell - English poetry - 1796 - 524 pages
...Here fix'd the dreadful, there the bless'd abodes ; 255 Fear made her devils, and weak Hope her gods; Gods partial, changeful, passionate, unjust, Whose attributes were rage, revenge, or lust ; Such as the souls of cowards might conceive, And, form'd like tyrants, tyrants would believe. 260... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1798 - 140 pages
...rise: Here fix'd the dreadful, there the blest abodes; Fear made her devils, and weak hope her gods; Gods partial, changeful, passionate, unjust, Whose attributes were rage, revenge, or lust; Such as the souls of cowards might conceive, And, form'd like tyrants, tyrants would believe. Zeal... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1804 - 232 pages
...fix'd the dreadful, there the bless'd abodes ; TOiM Fear made her devils, and weak Hope her gods ; Gods partial, changeful, passionate, unjust, Whose attributes were rage, revenge, or lust; Such as the souls of cowards might conceive, And, form'd like tyrants, tyrants would believe. 260 Zeal... | |
 | Christianity - 1803 - 430 pages
...' Here fix'd the dreadful, there the blest abodes ' Fear made her devils, and weak hope her gods : Gods partial, changeful, passionate, unjust, Whose attributes were rage, revenge, or lust ; Such as the souls of cowards might conceive, And form'd like tyrants, tyrants would believe. Zeal... | |
 | William Enfield - 1804 - 418 pages
...Here fix'd the dreadful, there the blest abodes ; Fear made her Devils , and weak Hops h«r Gods ;. Gods partial , changeful , passionate , unjust , "Whose attributes were Rage , Revenge , or Lust ; Such as the souls of cowards might conceive, And, form'd like tyrants, tyrants would belieYeZeal... | |
 | William Enfield - Elocution - 1808 - 434 pages
...Here fix'd the dreadful, there the blest abodes •, Fear matk her Devils, and weak Hope her Gods ; Gods partial, changeful, passionate, unjust, Whose attributes were Rage, Revenge, or Lust ; Such as the souls of cowards might conceive, And, form'd like tyrants, tyrants woulu believe Zeal... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1808 - 334 pages
...Here fix'd the dreadful, there the bless'd abodes ; Fear made her devils, and weak hope her gods ; Gods partial, changeful, passionate, unjust, Whose attributes were rage, revenge, or lust : Such as the souls of cowards might conceive, And, form'd like tyrants, tyrants would believe. Zeal... | |
 | John Dougall - 1810 - 734 pages
...and tears, prayers and broken hearts, are the offerings which are paid to them— Addison, ibid. " Gods partial, changeful, passionate, unjust ; Whose attributes were rage, revenge, or lust." — Pope. " What is sweeter than honey ? and what is stronger than a lion?" A circumstance of importance,... | |
 | William Warburton (Bp. of Gloucester), Richard Hurd - Theology - 1811 - 380 pages
...lustrations, and bloody sacrifices, composed the system of religious worship. Jn the words of the great Poet, Gods partial, changeful, passionate, unjust, Whose attributes were rage, revenge, or lust; Such as the souls of cowards might conceive, And, form'd like tyrants, tyrants would believe *. But,... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1812 - 348 pages
...Here fix'd the dreadful, there the blest abodes ; 255 Fear made her Devils, and weak hope her Gods ; Gods partial, changeful, passionate, unjust, Whose attributes were rage, revenge, or lust ; 12 Such Such as the souls of cowards might conceive, And, form' J like tyrants, tyrants would believe.... | |
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