Or in the natal, or the mortal hour. 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... An English Anthology of Prose and Poetry, Shewing the Main Stream of English ... - Page 474by Sir Henry John Newbolt - 1922 - 1011 pagesFull view - About this book
| Gilbert Imlay - 1998 - 372 pages
...English poet Alexander Pope (see note 1 to Letter VIII): "All Nature is but art, unknown to thee / All chance, direction, which thou canst not see; / All...reason's spite, / One truth is clear, Whatever is, is right" (Epistle I, lines 289-94). 3. Diamond Island: Imlay probably refers to the small island in the... | |
| Jean Edward Smith - 1998 - 788 pages
...the alliance of nature and reason that he took from Pope. All Nature is but Art, unknown to thee; All Chance, Direction, which thou canst not see; All Discord,...Reason's spite. One truth is clear, WHATEVER IS, IS RIGHT. In the Essay on Man, Pope identified self-interest with the public interest — a powerful talisman... | |
| Scott D. Evans - 1999 - 180 pages
...stupendous whole, Whose body Nature is, and God the soul; All Nature is but Art, unknown to thee; All Chance, Direction, which thou canst not see; All Discord,...Reason's spite, One truth is clear, "Whatever is, is right."22 The conclusion that must be drawn from this view is expressed literally in Pope's notorious... | |
| Martin Schonfeld - 2000 - 376 pages
...problem. 8. In the Essay of Man (1734). Pope had written: "All Nature is but Art. unknown to thee: / All Chance. Direction, which thou canst not see: / All...Reason's spite. / One truth is clear, 'Whatever is. is right.' " (In. 289-295). In 1753. the Berlin Academy posed the question, for the competition of 1755,... | |
| George Karpati, David Hilton-Jones, Robert C. Griggs - 2001 - 800 pages
...by the chromosome involved (Table 18.3). Whatever Is; Is All nature is but art unknown to thee All chance, direction which thou canst not see; All discord,...reason's spite, One truth is clear, Whatever is, is right. An essay on Man. Alexander Pope There are still those entities that, either by clinical art... | |
| G. Wilson Knight - 2002 - 396 pages
...193 general, on seeing the pattern and design, the creative pattern, in any situation: Submit. — In this, or any other sphere, Secure to be as blest as...Reason's spite, One truth is clear, Whatever is, is right. (i. 285) This doctrine should be read in its context, as part of Pope's whole work, An Essay... | |
| Amanda Anderson, Joseph Valente - 2002 - 364 pages
...hardly be seen as unintended on Pope's part.) Pope writes, All Nature is but art, unknown to thee; All chance, direction, which thou canst not see; All discord,...reason's spite, One truth is clear: Whatever IS, is RIGHT. (An Essay on Man, 289-94) Nature and Nature's laws lay hid in night; God said, let Newton be!... | |
| Linell E. Cady, Delwin Brown - 2002 - 252 pages
...of Pope's Essay on Man, we read those often cited lines: All Nature is but An, unknown to thee; All Chance, Direction, which thou canst not see; All Discord,...Reason's spite. One truth is clear, "Whatever is, is RIGHT." Although not all theodicies are politically regressive (obviously, Voltaire s parody was clearly... | |
| Andrew Bailey - 2002 - 1002 pages
...This quotation comes from Pope's Essay on Man, Epistle I: "All nature is but art, unknown to thee; All chance, direction, which thou canst not see; All discord,...reason's spite, One truth is clear, Whatever is, is right." the "naturalistic fallacy" in ethics,5 where some think, for example, that "good" is just what... | |
| Russell T. McCutcheon - 2003 - 346 pages
...of Pope's Essay on Man, we read those often cited lines: All Nature is but Art, unknown to thee; All Chance, Direction, which thou canst not see; All Discord,...Reason's spite, One truth is clear, "Whatever is, is RIGHT." Or, as Voltaire phrased it himself, near the close of an article in his Philosophical Dictionary... | |
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