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, Heav'n bestows on thee. Submit. — In this, or any other sphere, Secure to be as blest as thou canst... An essay on man. Cornish ed - Seite 28von Alexander Pope - 1798Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
| Alexander Pope - 1824 - 80 Seiten
...To him, no high, no low, no great, no small : He fills, he bounds, connects, and equals all. 280 X. Cease then, nor order imperfection name : Our proper...on thee. Submit. — In this, or any other sphere, 285 Secure to be as blest as thou canst bear : in the hand of one disposing Pow'r, Or in the natal,... | |
| John Lauris Blake - 1824 - 396 Seiten
...burns ; To him, no high, no low, no great, no small ; He fills, he bounds, connects and equals all. 4. Cease, then, nor Order Imperfection name ; Our proper...this kind, this due degree Of blindness, weakness, Heaven bestows on the«. Submit in this, or any other sphere, Secure to be as blest as thou canst bear... | |
| William Hazlitt - 1824 - 1062 Seiten
...burns : To him no high, no low, no great, no small ; He fills, he bounds, connects, and equals all. debts, believe Heaven bestows on thee. Submit. — In this, or any other sphere, Secure to be as blest as thou canst... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1963 - 884 Seiten
...bounds, III 1 10 and 79 ff; on connects, 1n 23 and 1 1 1 ff; on equals, IV 53-62, esp. 6 1-2 and 326. x. Cease then, nor ORDER Imperfection name: Our proper...on thee. Submit — In this, or any other sphere, 285 Secure to be as blest as thou canst bear: Safe in the hand of one disposing Pow'r, Or in the natal,... | |
| Arthur O. Lovejoy - 1936 - 404 Seiten
...confronted with physical or with moral evils, wrote Pope, " to reason well is to submit"; and again: Know thy own point; this kind, this due degree, Of blindness, weakness, Heaven bestows on thee. Submit! It is, of course, true that the optimistic writers were eager to show... | |
| Yasmine Gooneratne - 1976 - 164 Seiten
...is built the moral lesson taught by Epistle 1 : Know thy own point: This kind, this due degree 283 Of blindness, weakness, Heav'n bestows on thee. Submit...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 - 1991 - 292 Seiten
...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 - 1993 - 508 Seiten
...soul." Where the slogan of autonomy fosters a spirit of self-assertion, Pope's message is different: "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... | |
| Ulrich Löffler - 1999 - 744 Seiten
...deren insgesamt gute Ordnung in einem Erkenntnisschritt gegen die kleingläubige Klage zu stellen: „Cease then, nor Order imperfection name:/ Our proper...blindness, weakness, Heav'n bestows on thee[...]" (Pope, Essay, 34,281-36,285). 22 Geliert, Vorlesungen fGS 6J, 471. » Ebd. scher Interpretationstendenz... | |
| James Noggle - 2001 - 288 Seiten
...identification of our moral-social condition with the discourses we may agree upon to use to discuss it: "Cease then, nor ORDER Imperfection name: / Our proper bliss depends on what we blame" (I, 281-2). This injunction comes after the great vision of the universe as "one stupendous whole"... | |
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