 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
 | Geoffrey Chaucer - 1856 - 134 pages
...any other sphere, Secure to be as blest as thou canst bear : Safe in the hand of one disposing power, Or in the natal, or the mortal hour. All nature is...reason's spite, One truth is clear, whatever is, is right. ARGUMENT OF THE SECOND EPISTLE. Of tlie nature and state of Man with respect to himself, as... | |
 | Lizzie R. Torrey - 1856 - 362 pages
...any other sphere Secure to be as blest as thou canst bear ; Safe in the hand of one disposing Power, Or in the natal, or the mortal hour. All nature is...erring reason's spite, One truth is clear — Whatever it is BIGHT." MALEIA. The poet Pope conceived well ; and if men would but take the advice he giveth,... | |
 | John Bartlett - 1856 - 660 pages
...Feels at each thread,and lives along the line.* Line 289. 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 ii. Line 1. Know then thyself, presume not God to scan ; The proper study of mankind... | |
 | Epes Sargent - 1857 - 226 pages
...Forgive, if not forget ! 8. HE DOETH ALL THINGS WELL. Pope. Safe in the hand of one disposing power, Or in the natal," or the mortal hour, — All nature...reason's spite, One truth is clear, — whatever is, is right. 4. ACTION A LAW OF NATURE. — D. Grant. The various seasons, as they rise, — Mild spring,... | |
 | Jeffrey Mehlman - 1993 - 142 pages
...and the political quietism that would be its corollary: 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" Now the most striking aspect of Benjamin's pedagogical treatment of the Lisbon earthquake... | |
 | William V. Spanos - 1995 - 396 pages
...any other sphere, Secure to be as blest as thou canst bear: Safe in the hand of one disposing Power, Or in the natal, or the mortal hour All Nature is...Reason's spite, One truth is clear, WHATEVER iS, iS R1GHT.31 In The Confidence-Man Melville not only parodies the specifically American version of this... | |
 | Nicholas Till - 1995 - 404 pages
...according to God's unknowable overall plan for the universe: All Nature is but Art unknown to thee; All Chance direction which thou cans't not see; All Discord...Reason's spite, One truth is clear, 'Whatever is, is RIGHT.'" Pope's famous words, often cited as an example of the Enlightenment's complacent optimism,... | |
 | C.C. Gaither - 2018 - 438 pages
...characteristics of chance. Poincar6, Henri The Foundations of Science Science and Method (pp. 410-1) All chance, direction, which thou canst not see; All discord,...Reason's spite, One truth is clear, "Whatever is, is Right." Pope, Alexander The Complete Poetical Works of POPE An Essay on Man Epistle I, 289 Wisdom liketh... | |
 | Thomas Henry Huxley - 1997 - 398 pages
...reminiscences of stoical and other speculations of this kind — "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." Yet, surely, if there are few more important truths than those enunciated in the first triad,... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1998 - 260 pages
...Essay on Man (1733—4; translated into French prose in 1736 and French verse in 1737): Submit. — In this, or any other sphere, Secure to be as blest as...reason's spite, One truth is clear, "Whatever is, is right". (Epistle i. 285-94) In 1 736 they came into contact with the work of the German philosopher... | |
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