 All Nature is but art, unknown to thee All chance, direction, which thou canst not see; All discord, harmony not understood; All partial evil, universal good: And, spite of pride, in erring reason's spite, One truth is clear, Whatever is, is right.  The Works of Alexander Pope: Esq. with Notes and Illustrations by Himself ... - Side 74af Alexander Pope - 1824Fuld visning - Om denne bog
 | Thomas Ewing - 1832 - 428 sider
...is but art, unknown to thee ; All chance, direction, which thou canst not see ; All discord, harmony not understood ; All partial evil, universal good...reason's spite, One truth is clear, Whatever is, is right. POPE. 44. — SELF-KNOWLEDGE. KNOW thou thyself, presume not God to scan, The proper study of... | |
 | Samuel B. EMMONS - 1832 - 168 sider
...is but art unknown to thee; All chance, direction, which thou canst not see ; All discord, harmony, not understood: All partial evil, universal good;...reason's spite, One truth is clear, Whatever -is, is right. EPISTLE II. I. KNOW then thyself, presume not God to scan ! The proper study of mankind is man.... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1832 - 260 sider
...; All chance, direction, which thou canst not see ; All discord, harmony not understood ; • . JL All partial evil, universal good ; And, spite of Pride,...reason's spite, One truth is clear — WHATEVER is, is RIGHT. — POITL, SECTION XXI. - ,. ? Confidence in Divine protection. How are thy servants blest,... | |
 | Susan J. Wolfson - 2001 - 324 sider
...is but Art, unknown to thee; All Chance, Direction, which thou canst not see; All Discord, Harmony, not understood; All partial Evil, universal Good:...erring Reason's spite, One truth is clear, "Whatever 1s, is RIGHT." (1.289-94) The metrically tortured lines that precede Keats's closing couplet anticipate... | |
 | David N. Livingstone - 1997 - 228 sider
...to survival is good; the claim sounds suspiciously like the moral impasse of Pope's pungent couplet, And, spite of pride, in erring reason's spite, One truth is clear, "Whatever is, is RIGHT." Other critics contend that evolutionary ethics commits the naturalistic fallacy, moving from... | |
 | Jeffrey Hart - 2008 - 285 sider
...not where Pope stood, even when he famously concluded Epistle i of An Essay on Man with these lines: And, spite of pride, in erring reason's spite One truth is clear, WHATEVER is, is RIGHT. 10 This, it must be understood, is an ultimate statement concluding a poem in which a great... | |
 | Andrew Bailey - 2002 - 1002 sider
...is but art, unknown to thee; All chance, direction, which thou canst not see; All discord, harmony, not understood; All partial evil, universal good:...reason's spite, One truth is clear, Whatever is, is right." the "naturalistic fallacy" in ethics,5 where some think, for example, that "good" is just what... | |
 | Linell E. Cady, Delwin Brown - 2002 - 252 sider
...is but An, unknown to thee; All Chance, Direction, which thou canst not see; All Discord, Harmony, not understood; All partial Evil, universal Good:...Reason's spite. One truth is clear, "Whatever is, is RIGHT." Although not all theodicies are politically regressive (obviously, Voltaire s parody was clearly... | |
 | G. Wilson Knight - 2002 - 396 sider
...is but Art, unknown to thee; All Chance, Direction, which thou canst not see; All Discord, Harmony not understood; All partial Evil, universal Good:...Reason's spite, One truth is clear, Whatever is, is right. (i. 285) This doctrine should be read in its context, as part of Pope's whole work, An Essay... | |
 | Amanda Anderson, Joseph Valente - 2002 - 364 sider
...is but art, unknown to thee; All chance, direction, which thou canst not see; All discord, harmony not understood; All partial evil, universal good:...reason's spite, One truth is clear: Whatever IS, is RIGHT. (An Essay on Man, 289-94) Nature and Nature's laws lay hid in night; God said, let Newton be!... | |
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