 | Joseph Payne - 1845 - 490 pages
...And Betty's praised for labours not her own. EXTRACTS FROM THE ESSAY ON MAN. MAN'S IGNORANCE. HEAVEN from all creatures hides the book of fate, All but the page prescribed, thefr present state ; From brutes what men, from men what spirits know ; Or who could suffer... | |
 | Lewis C. Todd - Universalism - 1845 - 200 pages
...existence, Surely so far as nature sheds light upon the future, the British poet was about right: '-iFeaven from all creatures, hides the book of fate, All but the page prescribed, the present stale." And it is true that the writers of the Old Testament had very little... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1847 - 524 pages
...matter, soon or late, or here or there ? The blest to-day is as completely so, 75 As who began a thousand years ago. III. Heav'n from all creatures hides the book of Fate, All but the page prescrib'd, their present state ; NOTES. ment of the evils and miseries of life ; and ends by saying,... | |
 | Alexander Pope - Poetry - 1963 - 884 pages
...matter, soon or late, or here or there ? The blest today is as completely so, 75 As who began a thousand years ago. III. Heav'n from all creatures hides the book of Fate, All but the page prescrib'd, their present state; From brutes what men, from men what spirits know: Or who could suffer... | |
 | L. J. Swingle - Romanticism - 1990 - 318 pages
...limits of human understanding. It has affinities with Alexander Pope's argument in An Essay on Man that "Heav'n from all creatures hides the book of Fate, / All but the page prescrib'd, their present state" (I, 77-78). Men suffer, as Pope reminds us, from pride, "reas'ning... | |
 | Edith P. Hazen - Literary Criticism - 1992 - 1172 pages
...imperfect, Heav'n in fault; Say rather, Man's as perfect as he ought: Pope POETRY QUOTATIONS Pope 63 EL-4 A Red, Red prescrib'd, their present state: (Fr. Epistle I) 64 Oh blindness to the future! kindly giv'n, That... | |
 | Nancy Kress - Fiction - 2002 - 322 pages
...Now Available in Hardcover from Tor Books Turn the page for a preview of Nancy Kress 's latest Heaven from all creatures hides the book of fate, All but the page prescribed, their present state. — ALEXANDER POPE, "AN ESSAY ON MAN" PROLOGUE MARS July, 2168 Bellington... | |
 | John Farrell - Literary Criticism - 2006 - 372 pages
...without it we would be even more miserable than we are. Ignorance is another indispensable resource. Heav'n from all creatures hides the book of Fate, All but the page prescrib'd, their present state: From brutes what men, from men what spirits know: Or who could suffer... | |
 | Steve Clark, Masashi Suzuki - Literary Criticism - 2006 - 362 pages
...appropriation) of Pope here, who in the Essay on Man invokes an absolute and infinitely unknowable beyond: Heav'n from all creatures hides the book of fate, All but the page prescribed, their present state [. . .] The lamb thy riot dooms to bleed to-day Had he thy reason,... | |
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Heaven from all creatures hides the book of fate All but the page prescribed, their present state: From brutes what men, from men what spirits know: Or who could suffer being here below ? The lamb thy riot dooms to bleed to-day, Had he thy reason, would... 
