| Lindley Murray - Oral reading - 1824 - 308 pages
...all. 5. Cease then, nor ORDEK imperfection name : Oar proper bliss depends on what we blame Know tby own point : this kind, this due degree Of blindness,...this or any other sphere, Secure to be as blest as thou canst bear: Safe in the hand of one disposing Pow'r, Or in Ike natal, or in the morlal hour, .... | |
| William Hazlitt - English poetry - 1824 - 1062 pages
...burns : To him no high, no low, no great, no small ; He fills, he bounds, connects, and equals all. debts, believe Heaven bestows on thee. Submit. — In this, or any other sphere, Secure to be as blest as thou canst... | |
| Alexander Pope - Poetry - 1963 - 884 pages
...bounds, III 1 10 and 79 ff; on connects, 1n 23 and 1 1 1 ff; on equals, IV 53-62, esp. 6 1-2 and 326. x. Cease then, nor ORDER Imperfection name: Our proper...on thee. Submit — In this, or any other sphere, 285 Secure to be as blest as thou canst bear: Safe in the hand of one disposing Pow'r, Or in the natal,... | |
| Arthur O. Lovejoy - Philosophy - 1936 - 404 pages
...confronted with physical or with moral evils, wrote Pope, " to reason well is to submit"; and again: Know thy own point; this kind, this due degree, Of blindness, weakness, Heaven bestows on thee. Submit! It is, of course, true that the optimistic writers were eager to show... | |
| Yasmine Gooneratne - Literary Criticism - 1976 - 164 pages
...is built the moral lesson taught by Epistle 1 : Know thy own point: This kind, this due degree 283 Of blindness, weakness, Heav'n bestows on thee. Submit...this, or any other sphere, Secure to be as blest as thou canst bear: Safe in the hand of one disposing Pow'r, Or in the natal, or the mortal hour. Our... | |
| W. Daniel Wilson, Robert C. Holub - History - 1993 - 508 pages
...soul." Where the slogan of autonomy fosters a spirit of self-assertion, Pope's message is different: "Know thy own point: this kind, this due degree / Of blindness, weakness, Heaven bestows on thee. / Submit, in this, or any other sphere, / Secure to be as blest as thou canst... | |
| William Shakespeare - English drama - 1998 - 260 pages
...Alexander Pope's 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 thou canst bear: Safe in the hand of one disposing pow'r, Or in the natal, or the mortal hour. All... | |
| Ulrich Löffler - History - 1999 - 744 pages
...deren insgesamt gute Ordnung in einem Erkenntnisschritt gegen die kleingläubige Klage zu stellen: „Cease then, nor Order imperfection name:/ Our proper...blindness, weakness, Heav'n bestows on thee[...]" (Pope, Essay, 34,281-36,285). 22 Geliert, Vorlesungen fGS 6J, 471. » Ebd. scher Interpretationstendenz... | |
| James Noggle - Literary Criticism - 2001 - 288 pages
...identification of our moral-social condition with the discourses we may agree upon to use to discuss it: "Cease then, nor ORDER Imperfection name: / Our proper bliss depends on what we blame" (I, 281-2). This injunction comes after the great vision of the universe as "one stupendous whole"... | |
| John Sitter - Literary Criticism - 2001 - 322 pages
...designing creativity who must, however, accept the limitations mortality placed on their understanding: "In this, or any other sphere, / Secure to be as blest as thou can bear: / Safe in the hand of one disposing Pow'r, / Or in the natal, or the mortal hour. /... | |
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