 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
 | Paul Hyland, Olga Gomez, Francesca Greensides - 2003 - 496 pages
...but, because it is God's creation, it must be perfect: 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'. (Essay on Man, Epistle I, 11. 289-94) Although the Essay on Man was later to come under attack... | |
 | John Carrington - 2003 - 344 pages
...Toryism, he saw a benevolent and rational deity directing all: 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. His gift for neat parallelisms - which became an especial feature of his style and are so perfectly... | |
 | Matthew Pinsker - 2003 - 274 pages
...from the first epistle of Pope's famous "Essay on Man." 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. must be wrong.'" The skeptical English gentleman left charmed, calling his encounter with Lincoln... | |
 | Peter Van Inwagen - 2004 - 334 pages
...from Pope's "Essay on Man" (Epistle I, ll. 289 et seq.): 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. I don't see how anyone could believe this. It seems to me to be a wholly fantastic thesis. Do... | |
 | David Benatar - 2004 - 422 pages
...not a genuine optimism. Consider this statement of it: 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. (Pope, Essay on Man. 1733) This is positive evaluation indeed. But what about our first criterion,... | |
 | Alan M. Dershowitz - 2004 - 282 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. If God is perfect (or right) and if God created nature, it would follow that "whatever is, is... | |
 | Johann Georg Sulzer - 2005 - 152 pages
...versification of Pope's own prose paraphrase, seem conformable to Sulzer's elegant antiphonies and meditations: Cease then, nor ORDER imperfection name: Our proper...reason's spite. One truth is clear. "Whatever IS. is RIGHT." Like an amputated Polypus—or like Pangloss lovesick in the most graphic sense—Sulzer must,... | |
 | Susan Maslan - 2005 - 304 pages
...explained perhaps most pithily and certainly most famously by Pope in the Essay on Man: Submit. In this, or any other sphere, Secure to be as blest as...the mortal hour, All nature is but art, unknown to thee; All chance, but direction which thou canst not see; All discord, harmony not understood; All... | |
 | Michael Shermer - 2005 - 370 pages
...solution to the problem a different way in An Essay on Man: All Nature is but Art, unknown to thee; All Chance, Direction, which thou canst not see; All Discord,...spite, One truth is clear, "Whatever IS is RIGHT. " To explain away the problem of evil, believers often invoke the final clause in a modified version —... | |
 | Helen Deutsch - 2005 - 337 pages
...Pope's Essay on Man, a theodicy that famously asserts: 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." (1.289—94) Samuel Johnson's passionately satiric response to these sentiments (in his review... | |
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