 | William Hazlitt - 1824 - 1062 lehte
...now a world. Hope humbly then; with trembling pinionaaoar; Wait the great teacher death ; and liod y, Presenting Thebes' or Pelope' line, Or the tale...Virgin, that thy power Might raise Musœus from his confin'd from home, Rests and expatiates in a life to come. Lo, the poor Indian ! whose untutor'd mind... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1824 - 422 lehte
...more to be known than is compatible with our present situation. In the same spirit we are told to " Hope humbly then ; with trembling pinions soar ; Wait the great teacher Death, and God adore." Essay on Man, Ep. i. ver. 91. But if death be the termination of our existence, this, and all similar... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1824 - 424 lehte
...perish, or a sparrow fall, Atoms or systems into ruin hurl'd, And now a bubble burst, and now a world. 90 Hope humbly then ; with trembling pinions soar; Wait the great teacher Death, and God adore. COMMENTARY. Ver.91. Hope humbly then; Sfc.] But now an Objectoris supposed to put in, and say, " You... | |
 | Aileen M. Carroll - 1997 - 124 lehte
...to Pandora's act in the Christian belief. What is it? 6. The English poet Alexander Pope once wrote: Hope springs eternal in the human breast; Man never is, but always to be blessed; Paraphrased, Pope is saying that human beings are always hopeful — that they never feel... | |
 | David J. A. Clines - 1997 - 178 lehte
...we are for ever preparing to be happy, we shall assuredly never be so.35 Pope could observe wryly: Hope springs eternal in the human breast; Man never is, but always will be blest.36 With Goethe, the supreme value of the present outweighs hopes for the future: 'If... | |
 | Connie Robertson - 1998 - 686 lehte
...Nature's God. 89 10 An Essay on Man All our knowledge is, ourselves to know. 891 1 An Essay on Man 2 TP W W L. ; *U ! %t ,7 u P 4 '/p h oi [ ]g ? blest. 8912 Be not the first by whom the new are tried Nor yet the last to lay the old aside. 8913... | |
 | Todd Breyfogle - 1999 - 420 lehte
...78-98, and in The Great Chain of Being (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1948), chaps. 7 and io. 7. Hope humbly then; with trembling pinions soar; Wait...The soul uneasy and confined from home, Rests and expiates in a life to come. (Pope, Essay, Episde I, lines 91-98) 8. L'homme, étranger à soi, Je l'homme... | |
 | Todd Breyfogle - 1999 - 420 lehte
...78-98, and in The Great Chain of Being (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1948), chaps. 7 and 10. 7. Hope humbly then; with trembling pinions soar; Wait...never Is, but always To be blest: The soul uneasy and confmed from home, Rests and expiates in a life to come. (Pope. Essay, Epistle I, lines 91-98) 8. L'homme,... | |
 | Todd Breyfogle - 1999 - 420 lehte
...78-98, and in Tl1e Great Chain of Being (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1948), chaps. 7 and 10. 7. Hope humbly then; with trembling pinions soar; Wait...he gives not thee to know, But gives that hope to he thy blessing now. Hope sprmgs eternal in the human breast: Man never Is, but always To be blest:... | |
 | Edward Geoffrey Parrinder, Geoffrey Parrinder - 2000 - 389 lehte
...beyond reason, for that shows more desire than judgment. William Perm, Some Fruits of Solitude (1693) 10 Hope springs eternal in the human breast: Man never Is, but always To be blest. Alexander Pope, An Essay on Man, i (1734) 1 1 Hope is necessary in every condition. The miseries... | |
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Hope humbly then; with trembling pinions soar; Wait the great teacher Death ; and God adore. What future bliss, he gives not thee to know, But gives that hope to be thy blessing now. Hope springs eternal in the human breast: Man never is, but always to... 
