...smooth the bfed of death. — COTTON. SECTION IX. Providence vindicated in the present state of man. 1 Heav'n from all creatures, hides the book of fate .; All but the page prescrib'd, their present state ; From brutes what men, .from men what spirits know, Or who could suffer...

...bed of-death. COTTOS. SECTION "iX. • Providence vindicated in the -present state of man, 1, HKAV'W from all creatures hides the book of fate ; All but the page prescribed, their present state ; From brutes what men, from men what spirits know ; Or who could suffer...

...ambition in the fool that uses it. SHAKSPEARE. CHAP. XII. THE PRESENT CONDITION OF MAN VINDICATED. HEAV'N from all creatures hides the book of Fate, All but the page prescrib'd, their present state; From brutes what men, from men what spirits know, Or who could suffer...

...or here or there ? The blest today is as completely so, 75 As who began a thousand years ago. III. Heav'n from all creatures hides the book of Fate, All but the page prescrib'd, their present state; From brutes what men, from men what spirits know: Or who could suffer...

...limits of human understanding. It has affinities with Alexander Pope's argument in An Essay on Man that "Heav'n from all creatures hides the book of Fate, / All but the page prescrib'd, their present state" (I, 77-78). Men suffer, as Pope reminds us, from pride, "reas'ning...

...imperfect, Heav'n in fault; Say rather, Man's as perfect as he ought: Pope POETRY QUOTATIONS Pope 63 EL-4 A Red, Red prescrib'd, their present state: (Fr. Epistle I) 64 Oh blindness to the future! kindly giv'n, That...

...Now Available in Hardcover from Tor Books Turn the page for a preview of Nancy Kress 's latest Heaven from all creatures hides the book of fate, All but the page prescribed, their present state. — ALEXANDER POPE, "AN ESSAY ON MAN" PROLOGUE MARS July, 2168 Bellington...

...appropriation) of Pope here, who in the Essay on Man invokes an absolute and infinitely unknowable beyond: Heav'n from all creatures hides the book of fate, All but the page prescribed, their present state [. . .] The lamb thy riot dooms to bleed to-day Had he thy reason,...

...without it we would be even more miserable than we are. Ignorance is another indispensable resource. Heav'n from all creatures hides the book of Fate, All but the page prescrib'd, their present state: From brutes what men, from men what spirits know: Or who could suffer...

...del testo originale (dove tra l'altro manca del tutto l'aggettivo innocente riferito all'agnello): «The Lamb thy riot dooms to bleed to day / Had he thy Reason, would he skip and play? / Pleas'd to the last, he crops the flow'ry food, / And licks the hand...