 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
 | Charles Henry Poole - 1914 - 450 pages
...light, but only she. A CHORUS OF PRIESTS From " Mustapha " O WEARISOME condition of Humanity ! Borne under one law, to another, bound : Vainly begot, and...forbidden vanity, Created sick, commanded to be sound : What meaneth Nature by these divers laws ? Passion and reason, self-division cause : Is it the mark,... | |
 | John Mackinnon Robertson - 1915 - 556 pages
...century and a half later the deists were fond of quoting* the concluding Chorus Sacerdotum, beginning : 0 wearisome condition of humanity, Born under one law,...forbidden vanity ; Created sick, commanded to be sound : If nature did not take delight in blood, She would have made more easy ways to good. It is natural... | |
 | Thomas Humphry Ward - 1918 - 624 pages
...promis'd any man, by dying, joy.1 CHORUS OF PRIESTS. [From Muslapha.] Oh wearisome condition of Humanity I Born under one law, to another bound, Vainly begot...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... | |
 | Raymond Macdonald Alden - 1922 - 410 pages
...stanzas startle us with the spirit of rationalism which we may have thought of as wholly modern: . 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. We that are bound... | |
 | Raymond Macdonald Alden - 1922 - 410 pages
...spirit of rationalism which we may have thought of as wholly modern: O wearisome condition of humanity 1 Born under one law, to another bound; Vainly begot,...forbidden vanity; Created sick, commanded to be sound; What meaneth Nature by these diverse laws! Passion and Eeason self -division cause. We that are bonnd... | |
 | Frank Laurence Lucas - 1922 - 152 pages
...Mustapha the more readable and less tenebrous of the tragedies. Oh wearisome condition of Humanity, Borne under one law, to another bound, Vainly begot, and...forbidden vanity, Created sick, commanded to be sound. How it echoes that other cry, where East and West have met once more, in the Rubaiyat of Omar — O... | |
 | Raymond Macdonald Alden - 1922 - 410 pages
...stanzas startle us with the spirit of rationalism which we may have thought of as wholly modern: O wearisome condition of humanity ! Born under one law,...bound; Vainly begot, and yet forbidden vanity; Created siek, commanded to be sound; What meaneth Nature by these diverse lawst Passion and Eeason self -division... | |
 | Aldous Huxley - 1923 - 238 pages
...things that can rival that summing up against life and human destiny at the end of his "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's cause? Is it the mark... | |
 | Walter Raleigh - 1923 - 352 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... | |
 | Thomas Earle Welby - 1925 - 254 pages
...and death a chainless soul, With courage to endure. Emily BrontS. OH WEARISOME CONDITION OF HUMANITY 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 mark... | |
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