 | Alexander Pope - 1812 - 348 pages
...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 : From brutes what men, from men what spirits know : Or who could suffer... | |
 | Lindley Murray - Readers - 1812 - 378 pages
...peace, And smooth the bed of death. SECTION IX. Providence vindicated in the present state of man. 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 ; The lamb thy riot... | |
 | Elegant poems - 1814 - 132 pages
...imperfect, heav'n in fault: Say rather, Man's as perfect as he ought ; 70 As Who began a thousand years ago. 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... | |
 | Lindley Murray - Readers - 1815 - 262 pages
...the bed of death. COTTON. SECTION IX. Providence •vindicated in the prefent State of Man. HEAVEN from all creatures hides the book of fate, All but the page prelcrib'd, their prefent ftate ; 1'sorn brutes what men, from men what fpirits know, Or who could... | |
 | Mrs. Barbauld (Anna Letitia) - English literature - 1816 - 414 pages
...summer, swift our autumn's fled, When youth, and love, and spring, and golden joys are gone. Heaven from all creatures hides the book of fate, All but the page prescrib'd, their present state. Know then this truth, enough for man te know ; Virtue alone is happiness... | |
 | Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1816 - 782 pages
...is upon the earth ; aquatick are thofe, whofe conftant abode is upon the water. Locke. — Hcav'n. from all creatures hides the book of fate, All but the page prcfcrib'd this prcfent ft.ite ; From brutes what men, from men what fpirits know ; Or who could fuller... | |
 | English poetry - 1817 - 314 pages
...learn, though late, the genuine cause of all. Covjper. THE PRESENT STATE OF MAN VINDICATED. HEAVEN 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... | |
 | Richard Marks - Christian life - 1818 - 232 pages
...in the bitterness of sorrow, and crush them to the grave. Hence we can perceive in what compassion " 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 would suffer... | |
 | Regina Maria Roche - 1820 - 348 pages
...suitor would have been preferred to all others, however contrary to her inclination. CHAPTER VIII. " Heav'n from all creatures hides the book of fate, All but the page prescrib'd, their present state."' To render comfortable the temporary asylum she had procured for... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1821 - 86 pages
...matter soon or late, or here or there : The blest to-day is as completely so, 7$ 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... | |
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Heaven 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 being here below ? The lamb thy riot dooms to bleed to-day, Had he thy reason, would... 
