 Yet serves to second too some other use. So Man, who here seems principal alone, Perhaps acts second to some sphere unknown, Touches some wheel, or verges to some goal ; 'Tis but a part we see, and not a whole.  The Cambridge Examiner - Page 2401881Full view - About this book
 | Alexander Pope - Human beings - 1821 - 254 pages
...rank as Man : And all the question (wrangle e'er so long) Is only this , if God has plac'd him wrong ? Respecting Man , whatever wrong we call , May , must...single can its end produce ; Yet serves to second to some other use. II. Tu demandes pourquoi sur un globe stérile , l'u naquis si borné , si petit... | |
 | Alexander Pope - Human beings - 1821 - 252 pages
...(wrangle e'er so long) Is only this , if God has plac'd him wrong ? Respecting Man , whatever wrcrng we call , May , must be right , as relative to all....single can its end produce ; Yet serves to second to some other use. II. Tu demandes pourquoi sur un globe stérile ; Tu naquis si borné , si petit... | |
 | John Aikin - English poetry - 1821 - 402 pages
...rank as man : And all the question (wrangle e'er so long) Is only this, if God has plac'd him wrong? Respecting man, whatever wrong we call May, must be right, as relative to all. In human works, though labour'd on with pain, A thousand movements scarce one purpose gain : In God's, one single can... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1821 - 86 pages
...as man ; And all the questions (wrangle e'er so long) Is only this. If God has plac'd him wrong ? 50 Respecting man, whatever wrong we call, May, must be right, as relative to all. In human works, though labor"d on with pain, A thousand movements scarce one purpose gain; In God's one single can... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1822 - 368 pages
...as Man : And all the question (wrangle e'er so long) Is only this, if God has plac'd him wrong ? 50 Respecting Man, whatever wrong we call, May, must...purpose gain ; In God's, one single can its end produce ; 55 Yet serves to second too some other use. still weaker. And though you see not the reason of this... | |
 | Classical poetry - 1822 - 284 pages
...rank as man; And all the question (wrangle e'er so long) Is only this,—If God has placed him wrong? Respecting man, whatever wrong we call, May, must be right, as relative to all. In human works, though labour'd on with pain, A thousand movements scarce one purpose gain; In God's, one single can... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1822 - 370 pages
...the position enforced in these lines is this, that partial evil tends to the good of the 'whole : t " Respecting Man, whatever wrong we call, May, must be right, as relative to all." Ver. 51. How does the Poet enforce it ? If you will believe this Critic, in illustrating the effects... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1822 - 372 pages
...the position enforced in these lines is this, that partial evil tends to the good of the whole : " Respecting Man, whatever wrong we call, May, must be right, as relative to all." Ver. 51. How does the Poet enforce it ? If you will believe this Critic, in illustrating the effects... | |
 | Alexander Pope - English literature - 1824 - 430 pages
...there was a cause of this inferiority as well in the rational, as in the material creation. Warburton. In human works, tho' labour'd on with pain, A thousand...purpose gain ; In God's, one single can its end produce ; 55 Yet serves to second too some other use. So man, who here seems principal alone, Perhaps acts... | |
 | William Hazlitt - English poetry - 1824 - 1062 pages
...rank as man : And all the question (wrangle e'er so long), Is only this, if God has plac'd him wrong ? sess A paradise within thee, happier far. Let us descend now therefore from this top Of specul though labour'd on with pain, A thousand movements scarce one purpose gain. In God's, one single can... | |
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