 | Alexander Pope - 1830 - 500 pages
...perish, or a sparrow fall, Atoms or systems into ruin hurl'd, And now a bubble burst, and now a world. 90 h human passions rage; * Aad the pale ghosts start...Triumphant Umbriel, on a sconce's height, Clapp'd the. to know, But gives that hope to be thy blessing now. Hope springs eternal in the human breast... | |
 | Aileen M. Carroll - Mythology - 1997 - 124 pages
...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... | |
 | Connie Robertson - Reference - 1998 - 686 pages
...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 - Education - 1999 - 420 pages
...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...never Is, but always To be blest: 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,... | |
 | Todd Breyfogle - Education - 1999 - 420 pages
...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 - Reference - 2000 - 389 pages
...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... | |
 | Vernon K. McLellan - Humor - 2000 - 308 pages
...Adorns and cheers our way; And still, as darker grows the night, Emits a lighter ray. OLIVER GOLDSMITH Hope springs eternal in the human breast: Man never is, but always to be blest. ALEXANDER POPE Sam: "Have you ever realized any of your childhood hopes?" Cam: "Yes, when mother... | |
 | Patrick Riley - Literary Criticism - 2001 - 474 pages
...l'homme avec lui seul apprit a se connaitre. "Poeme sur la loi naturelle," Exorde, ll, 15, 1/ff. 8 "Hope humbly then; with trembling pinions soar; Wait...never Is, but always To be blest: The soul uneasy and confined from home, Rests and expiates in a life to come." Pope, Essay, Epistle 1, ll, 91-98. Compare... | |
 | Paul Custodio Bube, Jeffrey L. Geller - Literary Criticism - 2002 - 156 pages
...well-known stanzas from Alexander Pope's "Essay on Man." The first raises the same issues l have discussed. Hope humbly then; with trembling pinions soar; Wait...know, But gives that hope to be thy blessing now, With imagery that could have come directly from Augustine, the next quatrain draws attention to some... | |
 | Robert E. Valett - 2002 - 139 pages
...complex beliefs which are uniquely interpreted to give a feeling of meaning and importance to our lives. Hope Springs eternal in the human breast: Man never...is, but always to be blest. The soul, uneasy, and confined to home, Rests and expatiates in a life to come. -Alexander Pope Over millions of years, humans... | |
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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... 
