 | Samuel Griswold Goodrich - 1834 - 432 pages
...be, so long as we continue at enmity with others." THE PRESENT CONDITION OF MAN VINDICATED. HEAVEN from all creatures hides the book of fate, All but the page prescribed, their present state, Oh ! blindness to the future ! kindly given, That each may fill the... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1835 - 350 pages
...or there ? The bless'd to-day is as completely so, 75 As who began a thousand years ago. iII. 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... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 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 - 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 - 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 - 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... | |
 | Steve Clark, Masashi Suzuki - 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,... | |
 | John Farrell - 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... | |
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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... 
