 | Alexander Pope - 1812 - 348 pages
...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... | |
 | Elegant poems - 1814 - 132 pages
...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 - 1815 - 262 pages
...liuooth 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) - 1816 - 414 pages
...flies our 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 1817 - 314 pages
...taught, And 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 - 1818 - 232 pages
...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... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1820 - 80 pages
...or late, or here, or there? The blest to-day is as completely so, As who began a thousand years ago. Heaven from all creatures hides the book of fate. All- but the pqge prescrib'd, their present state: From brutes what men, from men what spirits know, Or who could... | |
 | Regina Maria Roche - 1820 - 348 pages
...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
...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 today, Had he thy reason, would... 
