 Cease then, nor order imperfection name : Our proper bliss depends on what we blame. Know thy own point : This kind, this due degree Of blindness, weakness, heaven bestows on thee. Submit. — In this, or any other sphere, Secure to be as blest as thou...  Pope: Essay on Man - Page 9by Alexander Pope - 1881 - 122 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Thomas Cooper - Chartism - 1850 - 492 pages
...burns: To him no high, no low, no great, no small ; He fills, he bounds, connects, and equals all. Submit. — In this, or any other sphere, Secure to...thou canst bear : Safe in the hand of one disposing power, Or in the natal, or the mortal hour. All nature is but art, unknown to thee; All chance, direction,... | |
 | English periodicals - 1925 - 1072 pages
...never love as these have loved.' Whose mind is not uplifted by the great thoughts in the Essay on Man ? Safe in the hand of one disposing Pow'r, Or in the natal or the mortal hour. All Nature is but Art, unknown to thee ; All Chance, Direction, which thou canst not see, All Discord,... | |
 | Alexander Pope - Poetry - 1963 - 884 pages
...degree Of blindness, weakness, Heav'n bestows on thee. Submit — In this, or any other sphere, 285 Secure to be as blest as thou canst bear: Safe in...disposing Pow'r, Or in the natal, or the mortal hour. All Nature is but Art, unknown to thee; All Chance, Direction, which thou canst not see; 290 All Discord,... | |
 | English periodicals - 1925 - 1028 pages
...never love as these have loved.' Whose mind is not uplifted by the great thoughts in the Essay on Man ? Safe in the hand of one disposing Pow'r. Or in the natal or the mortal hour. All Nature is but Art, unknown to thee ; All Chance, Direction, which thou canst not see. All Discord,... | |
 | Yasmine Gooneratne - Literary Criticism - 1976 - 164 pages
...Know thy own point: This kind, this due degree 283 Of blindness, weakness, Heav'n bestows on thee. Submit - In this, or any other sphere, Secure to be...disposing Pow'r, Or in the natal, or the mortal hour. Our hindsight may tell us: this is merely social and political propaganda deriving from medieval origins,... | |
 | Julia Catherine Beckwith Hart - Education - 1991 - 292 pages
...On Man, 1733, Epistle 1,11. 287-88. In the concluding paragraph to the first epistle, Pope advises: Safe in the hand of one disposing Pow'r, Or in the natal, or the mortal hour. See The Twickenham Edition of the Poems of Alexander Pope. Vol. 3, Pt. l,p. 50. 180.37 'fear my God,... | |
 | W. Daniel Wilson, Robert C. Holub - History - 1993 - 508 pages
..."Know thy own point: this kind, this due degree / Of blindness, weakness, Heaven bestows on thee. / Submit, in this, or any other sphere, / Secure to be as blest as thou canst bear" (1.267-68, 283-86). 6. "Die Schonheit eines kunstlichen Werkes beruht nicht auf einem leeren Diinkel,... | |
 | William Shakespeare - English drama - 1998 - 260 pages
...Alexander Pope's Essay on Man (1733—4; translated into French prose in 1736 and French verse in 1737): Submit. — In this, or any other sphere, Secure to...disposing pow'r, Or in the natal, or the mortal hour. All nature is but art, unknown to thee; All chance, direction, which thou canst not see; All discord,... | |
 | John Sitter - Literary Criticism - 2001 - 322 pages
...designing creativity who must, however, accept the limitations mortality placed on their understanding: "In this, or any other sphere, / Secure to be as blest as thou can bear: / Safe in the hand of one disposing Pow'r, / Or in the natal, or the mortal hour. / All Nature... | |
 | G. Wilson Knight - Christian drama, English - 2002 - 396 pages
...date. [1966] 193 general, on seeing the pattern and design, the creative pattern, in any situation: Submit. — In this, or any other sphere, Secure to...disposing Pow'r, Or in the natal, or the mortal hour. All Nature is but Art, unknown to thee; All Chance, Direction, which thou canst not see; All Discord,... | |
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