 Heav'n 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,...  Essay on man, and The universal prayer - Página 4por Alexander Pope - 1860 - 47 páginasVista completa - Acerca de este libro
 | Thomas Campbell, Samuel Carter Hall, Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton, Theodore Edward Hook, Thomas Hood, William Harrison Ainsworth, William Ainsworth - 1824 - 598 páginas
...and what sort of sounds it makes."--" Then, as to dancing," resumed the Poet, " what says Pope ? . ' The lamb thy riot dooms to bleed to-day. Had he thy reason, would he skin and ulav ?' i -, ' ' ; . ° rl ''•• i '• Now, though I object to the word riot, since tbere... | |
 | Jesse Torrey - 1824 - 308 páginas
...late, or here or there? The blest to-day, is as completely so, „ As who began a thousand years ago. 9 Heaven 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... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1824 - 1062 páginas
...or late, or here or there } The blest to-day is as completely so, As who began a thousand years ago. whores: Enough if all around him but admire, prescrib'd, their present state ; From brutes what men, from men what spirits know ; Or who could suffer... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1963 - 884 páginas
...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 - 1990 - 318 páginas
...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 - 1992 - 1172 páginas
...imperfect, Heav'n in fault; Say rather, Man's as perfect as he ought: Pope POETRY QUOTATIONS Pope 63 Heav'n Red, Red prescrib'd, their present state: (Fr. Epistle I) 64 Oh blindness to the future! kindly giv'n, That... | |
 | Andrew H. Miller - 1995 - 260 páginas
...social comment, recalls lines from Pope's Essay on Man, which Thackeray was to quote in The Ne1vcombes: "The lamb thy riot dooms to bleed today,/ Had he thy Reason, would he skip and play?/ Pleas'd to the last, he crops the flowr'y food/And licks the hand just rais'd to shed his blood" (lines... | |
 | Judith N. Shklar - 1998 - 436 páginas
...follows from the comparison of men and sheep, and again it is the animal that is the material witness. "The lamb thy riot dooms to bleed today / Had he thy reason, would he skip and play?" (I, 81-82). Our brutality is clear, and it is not mitigated by our own helplessness, our jumping and... | |
 | Aaron V. Garrett - 324 páginas
...[God] Made Beast in aid of Man, and Man of Beast; All serv'd, all serving! nothing stands alone; with The lamb thy riot dooms to bleed to-day Had he thy Reason, would he skip and play? Pleas'd to the last, he crops the flow'ry food, And licks the hand just rais'd to shed his blood.7... | |
 | Nancy Kress - 2002 - 322 páginas
...KRESS 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 Wace Arnold of Arnold Interplanetary,... | |
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