...And Betty's praised for labours not her own. EXTRACTS FROM THE ESSAY ON MAN. MAN'S IGNORANCE. HEAVEN from all creatures hides the book of fate, All but the page prescribed, thefr present state ; From brutes what men, from men what spirits know ; Or who could suffer...

...existence, Surely so far as nature sheds light upon the future, the British poet was about right: '-iFeaven from all creatures, hides the book of fate, All but the page prescribed, the present stale." And it is true that the writers of the Old Testament had very little...

...matter, soon or late, or here or there ? The blest to-day 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 ; NOTES. ment of the evils and miseries of life ; and ends by saying,...

...matter, soon or late, 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...

...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...

...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,...