 OH , wearisome condition of Humanity ! Born under one law, to another bound : Vainly begot, and yet forbidden vanity, Created sick, commanded to be sound: What meaneth Nature by these diverse laws?  Bookseller's catalogues - Page 97by W. Gardiner - 1808 - 14 pagesFull view - About this book
 | 1892 - 556 pages
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 | Thomas Humphry Ward - 1895 - 650 pages
...the father to destroy ; Nor promis'd any man, by dying, joy.1 CHORUS OF PRIESTS. [From M«stapha.] On wearisome condition of Humanity ! Born under one law,...forbidden vanity, Created sick, commanded to be sound : What meaneth Nature by these diverse laws? Passion and reason self-division cause. Is it the mask... | |
 | 1895 - 416 pages
...barbarous ? And we look and behold him instead filled with imperfect virtues. — LOUIS STEVENSON. O WEARISOME condition of humanity ! Born under one law,...forbidden vanity, Created sick, commanded to be sound : What meaneth nature by these diverse laws ? Passion and reason self-division cause. Is it the mark... | |
 | Arthur Quiller-Couch - 1895 - 438 pages
...Christ our souls shall dwell. Humfrey Giffbrd. A SONG FOR PRIESTS 269 CCXCVII A SONG FOR PRIESTS O WEARISOME condition of humanity ! Born under one law,...forbidden vanity ; Created sick, commanded to be sound : — What meanethNature by these diverse laws? Passion and Reason self-division cause. Is it the mark... | |
 | Matthew Arnold - 1895 - 652 pages
...man, by dying, joy.1 CHORUS OF PRIESTS. [From Mnstaplia.] Oh wearisome condition of Humanity! liorn under one law, to another bound, Vainly begot and...forbidden vanity, Created sick, commanded to be sound : What meaneth Nature by these diverse laws? Passion and reason self-division cause. Is it the mask... | |
 | Thomas Humphry Ward - 1899 - 626 pages
...taught the father to destroy : Nor promis'd any man, by dying, joy.1 CHORUS OF PRIESTS. [From Mustapha.] Oh wearisome condition of Humanity ! Born under one...forbidden vanity, Created sick, commanded to be sound : What meaneth Nature by these diverse laws? Passion and reason self-division cause. Is it the mask... | |
 | Thomas Humphry Ward - 1901 - 628 pages
...taught the father to destroy : Nor promis'd any man, by dying, joy.1 CHORUS OF PRIESTS. [From Mustapha.] Oh wearisome condition of Humanity ! Born under one...forbidden vanity, Created sick, commanded to be sound : What meaneth Nature by these diverse laws? Passion and reason self-division cause. Is it the mask... | |
 | William Blake - 1905 - 260 pages
...nature of man is an old and difficult problem, which has exercised all poetry that pretends to thought : Oh, wearisome condition of humanity ! Born under one...forbidden vanity, Created sick, commanded to be sound; What meaneth nature by these diverse laws ? Blake, following the mystic who wrote the account of the... | |
 | William Stanley Braithwaite - 1907 - 892 pages
...leave the rest To virtue, fortune, time and woman's breast. 483. A Song for Priests Sir P. Sidney S~\ WEARISOME condition of humanity! ^— ' Born under...forbidden vanity; Created sick, commanded to be sound: — What meaneth Nature by these diverse laws? Passion and Reason self-division cause. Is it the mark... | |
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