 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 - 1853 - 336 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. 50 In human works, though labour'd on with pain, A thousand movements scarce one purpose gain ; In... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1853 - 342 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. 50 In human works, though labour'd on with pain, A thousand movements scarce one purpose gain ; In... | |
 | Adin Ballou - Christian socialism - 1854 - 692 pages
...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." " Then say not man's imperfect, Heaven in fault ; Say rather man's as perfect as he ought ; II is knowledge... | |
 | English poetry - 1916 - 792 pages
...as man : And all the question (wrangle e'er so long) Is only this, if God has placed him wrong ? 50 + though laboured on with pain, A thousand movements scarce one purpose gain; In God's, one single can... | |
 | Ernest Bernbaum - English poetry - 1918 - 422 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 laboured on with pain, A thousand movements scarce one purpose gain; In God's, one single can... | |
 | Edwin Greenlaw, James Holly Hanford - American literature - 1919 - 712 pages
...man, whatever wrong we call, May, must be right, as relative to all. In human works, though labored gh Humility, High as the heavens above! These are your walks, and you have showed them me, To kindle ; fl ' Yet serves to second too some other use. So man, who here seems principal alone, Perhaps acts... | |
 | Edwin Greenlaw, James Holly Hanford - American literature - 1919 - 714 pages
...rank as man : And all the question (wrangle e'er so long) Is only this, if God has placed him wrong? w reate In us such love and reverence from afar" "~ " That fortune, fame, power, life, have namec though labored on with pain, A thousand movements scarce one purpose gain ; •In God's, one single... | |
 | Mabel Dodge Holmes - 1921 - 202 pages
...answer to hypothetical suggestions of fault-finding with things as they are. First and most important, ' 'Respecting Man, whatever wrong we call, May, must be right, as relative to all."1 Man is not an isolated being; since he exists only as one link in the chain, that which brings... | |
 | George Carver - American literature - 1926 - 504 pages
...as man : And all the question (wrangle e'er so long) Is only this, if God has placed 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... | |
 | John Matthews Manly - English literature - 1926 - 928 pages
...as man: And all the question (wrangle e'er so long) Is only this, if God has placed him wrong? 5° down the torrent of his fate? Must no dislike alarm, no wishes rise, No cries invoke the merci though laboured on with pain, A thousand movements scarce one purpose gain; In God's, one single can... | |
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