 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
 | 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | Fred Parker - 2003 - 310 pages
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 | Werner Stark - 1998 - 126 pages
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 | 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... | |
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