 | British poets - 1822 - 348 pages
...born to bear. Such is, alas ! the gods' severe decree : They, only they are bless'd, and only free. Two urns by Jove's high throne have ever stood, The...one of good ; From thence the cup of mortal man he fills, Blessings to these, to those distributes ills; To most, he mingles both : the wretch decreed... | |
 | Ezekiel Sanford - 1822 - 344 pages
...is born to bear. Such is, alas! the gods' severe decree: They, only they are bless'd, and only free. Two urns by Jove's high throne have ever stood, The...one of good ; From thence the cup of mortal man he fills, Blessings to these, to those distributes ills ; To most, he mingles both : the wretch decreed... | |
 | Homer - 1822 - 342 pages
...is born to bear. Such is, alas! the gods' severe decree: They, only they are bless'd, and only free. Two urns by Jove's high throne have ever stood, The...one of good ; From thence the cup of mortal man he fills, Blessings to these, to those distributes ills ; To most, he mingles both : the wretch decreed... | |
 | Plutarch - 1822 - 504 pages
...passage in the speech of Achilles to Priam in the bit Iliad, which is thus translated by Pope : — Two urns by Jove's high throne have ever stood, The...one of good. From thence the cup of mortal man he fills, Blessings to these, to those distributes ills; To most he mingles both ; the wretch decreed... | |
 | 1822 - 488 pages
...with a mountain of winds, another with a magazine of hail, and a third with a pile of thunderbolts. ' Two urns by Jove's high throne have ever stood, The...one of good ; From thence the cup of mortal man he fills, Blessings to these, to those distributes ills ; To most he mingles both : the wretch decreed... | |
 | Lionel Thomas Berguer - 1823 - 334 pages
...calamities, of human life. Jupiter, in the beginning of his reign, finding the world much more • Two urns by Jove's high throne have ever stood, The...one of good ; From thence the cup of mortal man he fills, Blessings to these, to those distributes ills : To most he mingles both : the wretch decreed... | |
 | James Ferguson - 1823 - 414 pages
...plentifully out of the tun that stood at his right hand; but, as mankind degenerated, and became unworthy * Two urns by Jove's high throne have ever stood, The...one of good ; From thence the cup of mortal man he fills, Blessings to these, to those distributes ills : To most he mingles both : the wretch decreed... | |
 | James Ferguson - 1823 - 410 pages
...right hand : but, as mankind degenerated, and became unworthy * Two urns by Jove's high throne hare ever stood, The source of evil one, and one of good ; From thence the cup of mortal man he fills, Blessings to these, to those distributes ills : To most he mingles both : the wretch decreed... | |
 | British essayists - 1823 - 862 pages
...the Sun his seasons. Among the several deities who came to make their court on this occasion, 'the * Two urns by Jove's high throne have ever stood, The source of evil one, and one of good ; J?rom thence the cup of mortal man he fills, Blessings to these, to those distributes ills : To most... | |
 | 1823 - 442 pages
...have ever stood, The source of evil one, and one of good ; From thence the cup of mortal man he fills, Blessings to these, to those distributes ills : To most he mingles both : the wretch decreed To taste the bad, unmix'd, is curst indeed ; Pursu'd by wrongs, by meagre famine... | |
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Two urns by Jove's high throne have ever stood, The source of evil one, and one of good ; From thence the cup of mortal man he fills, Blessings to these, to those distributes ills ; To most, he mingles both : the wretch decreed To taste the bad, unmix'd,... 
