All nature is but art, unknown to thee ; All chance, direction, which thou canst not see ; All discord, harmony not understood ; All partial evil, universal good : And, spite of pride, in erring reason's spite, One truth is clear, Whatever is, is right. A Manual of English Literature, Historical and Critical: With an Appendix on ... - Seite 403von Thomas Arnold - 1882 - 558 SeitenVollansicht - Über dieses Buch
| Thomas Duddy - 2002 - 392 Seiten
...of the same episrle in which he declares that all chance is order - or 'direction' - that one cannot see: 'All Discord, Harmony, not understood; / All partial Evil, universal Good: / And, spire of Ptide, in erting Reason's spire, / One ttuth is clear, "Wharever IS, is RIGHT'" (Pope 1963:... | |
| Paul Hyland, Olga Gomez, Francesca Greensides - 2003 - 494 Seiten
...but, because it is God's creation, it must be periect: All Nature is but Art, unknown to thee; All Chance, Direction, which thou canst not see; All Discord,...understood; All partial Evil, universal Good: And, spite ol Pride, in erring Reason's spite, One truth is clear, 'Whatever is, is right'. о lEisay on Man,... | |
| Michael Kurland - 2003 - 310 Seiten
...tell us the plan on the way." EIGHTEEN YOUR AMERICAN COUSIN All nature is but art unknown to thee; All chance, direction which thou can'st not see; All discord, harmony not understood; All partial evil, universal good . . . — ALEXANDER POPE Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson had adjoining rooms on... | |
| George M. Marsden - 2004 - 637 Seiten
...happiness. Alexander Pope's Essay on Man is the best-known popular expression: Edwards' library table All Chance, Direction, which thou canst not see: All Discord,...understood; All partial Evil, universal Good: And, spite ofPnide, in erring Reason's spite, One truth is clear, “WHATEVER IS, 15 RIGHT.” Edwards himselfmight... | |
| Susan Maslan - 2005 - 304 Seiten
...optimistic creed was explained perhaps most pithily and certainly most famously by Pope in the Essay on Man: Submit. In this, or any other sphere, Secure to be...thou canst bear: 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, but... | |
| Johann Georg Sulzer - 2005 - 152 Seiten
...thy own point: This kind, this due degree Of blindness, weakness. Heav'n bestows on thee. Submit—In this, or any other sphere. Secure to be as blest as...thou canst bear: 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,... | |
| Jelle Zeilinga de Boer, Donald Theodore Sanders - 2005 - 310 Seiten
...good and wise, Alike in what it gives, and what denies? All Nature is but Art, unknown to thee; All Chance, Direction which thou canst not see; All Discord,...understood; All partial Evil, universal Good: And, in spite of Pride, in erring Reason's spite, One truth is clear, "WHATEVER is, is RIGHT."9 Voltaire,... | |
| James H. Hutson - 2009 - 288 Seiten
...myself to undertake such a journey. Into the will and disposal of our heavenly Father I commit her. "Safe in the hand of one disposing power; or in the natal or the mortal hour." My only source of satisfaction, says Dr. Priestlry,12 "and it is a never failing one, is my firm persuasion... | |
| John Kekes - 2005 - 296 Seiten
...well-known and ii i M1 n mi. il expression of it is Pope's: All Nature is but An, unknown to dice; All Chance, Direction, which thou canst not see; All Discord, Harmony, not understood; All partial Kvil, universal Good: And in spite of Pride, in erring Reason's spite, One mali is clear, WHATEVER... | |
| Church of England. Doctrine Commission - 2005 - 518 Seiten
...instance in his Essay on Man of 1734 we find him writing: All nature is but art unknown to thee; All chance, direction which thou canst not see; All discord, harmony not understood All partial evil, universal good. There we have the earlier classical tradition's ineradicable confidence in the... | |
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