 | Alexander Pope - 1824 - 422 sivua
...282 in the MS. Reason, to think of God when she pretends, Begins a Censor, an Adorer ends. Warburton. Know thy own point. This kind, this due degree Of blindness, weakness, Heav'n bestows on thee. COMMENT ARY. sufficient to shew us, that we are, and always shall be, as blest as we can bear ; for... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1824 - 424 sivua
...282 in the MS. Reason, to think of God when she pretends, Begins a Censor, an Adorer ends. Warburton. Know thy own point. This kind, this due degree Of blindness, weakness, Heav'n bestows on thee. COMMENTARY. sufficient to shew us, that we are, and always shall be, as blest as we can bear ; for... | |
 | Minstrel - 1824 - 246 sivua
...equals all. Cease then, nor order imperfection name : -Our proper bliss depends on what we blame. Kudw thy own point : this kind, this due degree Of blindness, weakness, heav'n bestows on thec. Submit — in this, or any other spheir. Secure to be as bksl as thim canst bear: Safe in the... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1963 - 884 sivua
...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 bliss depends on what...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 - 1936 - 404 sivua
...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 - 1976 - 164 sivua
...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...disposing Pow'r, Or in the natal, or the mortal hour. Our hindsight may tell us: this is merely social and political propaganda deriving from medieval origins,... | |
 | Julia Catherine Beckwith Hart - 1991 - 292 sivua
...On Man, 1733, Epistle 1,11. 287-88. In the concluding paragraph to the first epistle, Pope advises: Safe in the hand of one disposing Pow'r, Or in the natal, or the mortal hour. See The Twickenham Edition of the Poems of Alexander Pope. Vol. 3, Pt. l,p. 50. 180.37 'fear my God,... | |
 | W. Daniel Wilson, Robert C. Holub - 1993 - 508 sivua
...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 V. Spanos - 1995 - 396 sivua
...Melville surely has in mind in satirizing the "New World" (exceptionalist) optimism: Cease then, nor ORDER Imperfection name: Our proper bliss depends on what...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... | |
 | Ulrich Löffler - 1999 - 744 sivua
...Ordnung in einem Erkenntnisschritt gegen die kleingläubige Klage zu stellen: „Cease then, nor Order imperfection name:/ Our proper bliss depends on what...blindness, weakness, Heav'n bestows on thee[...]" (Pope, Essay, 34,281-36,285). 22 Geliert, Vorlesungen fGS 6J, 471. » Ebd. scher Interpretationstendenz... | |
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Cease then, nor order imperfection name; Our proper bliss depends on what we blame. Know thy own point: this kind this due degree Of blindness, weakness, Heav'n bestows on thee. Submit. — In this, or any other sphere, Secure to be as blest as thou canst... 
