 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...  An Essay on Man - Page 7by Alexander Pope - 1763 - 124 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Alexander Pope - 1798 - 140 pages
...late, or here or there ? The blest to-day, is as completely so As who began a thousand years ago. 3. Heav'n 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... | |
 | Lindley Murray - Readers - 1799 - 408 pages
...And fmooth the bed of Death. COTTON. SECTION IX. Providence vindicated in the jirt'Jent State of Man. HEAV'N from all creatures hides the book of Fate, All but the page prefcrib'd, their prefent flate ; From brutes what men, from men what fpirits know, Or who could fuffer... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1804 - 496 pages
...or there ? The blcft to-day is as completely Co, 75 As who began a thoufand years ago. III. Heaven from all creatures hides the book of Fate, All but the page prefcrib'd, their prefent Hate: From brutes what men, from men what fpirits kno» i Or who could fuffef... | |
 | William Enfield - 1804 - 418 pages
...the fool that uses it. SHAKESPEARE,. CHAP. XII. The present Condition of man vindicated. H, LEAv'N from all creatures hides the book of Fate, All but the page prescrib'd their present states From brutes what men , i'rom men what spirits. ( know, Or who could... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1806 - 474 pages
...If to be perfeft in a certain fphere, What matter, foon or late, or here or there ? The bleft to-day is as completely fo, 75 As who began a thoufand years...creatures hides the book of Fate, All but the page prefcrib'd, their prefent ftate : From brutes what men, from men what fpirits know : Or who could fufler... | |
 | Alexander Pope, William Lisle Bowles - 1806 - 466 pages
...or here or there ? The bleft to-day is as completely fo, 75 As who began a thoufand years ago. IH. Heav'n from all creatures hides the book of Fate, All but the page prefcrib'd, their prefent ftate : From brutes what men, from men what fpirits know : Or who could fuffer... | |
 | English poetry - 1806 - 408 pages
...parity owing to our IGNORANCE of FUTURE EVENTS, partly to our HOPE of a FUTURE STATE. (POPE.) 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... | |
 | Encyclopaedia Perthensis - 1807 - 802 pages
...is upon the earth; ; aqua tick are thofe, whofe tonftant abode is upon the water. Locke. — Htav'rr from all creatures hides the book of fate, ' All but the page prefcrib'd this prefent ftate ; From brutes what men, from men what fpirits know; Or who could firffer... | |
 | Samuel Bulfinch Emmons - Spiritualism - 1857 - 302 pages
...permit nothing to take place but what would be for our best good, and that of all concerned. '' Heaven from all creatures hides the book of fate, All but the page prescribed — their present state ; Prom brutes what men, from men what angels know; Or who could... | |
 | Lindley Murray - Readers - 1810 - 262 pages
...And smooth the bed qf death. corf on, SECTION IX. PROVIDENCE VINDICATED IN THB PRESENT STATE O» MAN. HEAV'N from all creatures hides the book of fate, All but the page prescrib'cl, their present state ; From brutes what men, from men what spirits know, Or who could suffer... | |
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