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" Cease then, nor order imperfection name : Our proper bliss depends on what we blame. Know thy own point : This kind, this due degree Of blindness, weakness, Heaven bestows on thee. "
The poetical works of Alexander Pope, with a life, by A. Dyce - Page 44
by Alexander Pope - 1863
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The Works of Alexander Popekesq., with Notes and Illustrations by ..., Volume 5

Alexander Pope - 1824 - 422 pages
...thou conduct Eternal Form ; and there, where Chaos reign'd, Gav'st her dominion to erect her seat, X. Cease then, nor ORDER Imperfection name : Our proper bliss depends on what we blame. COMMENTARY. Ver. 281. Cease then, nor ORDER Imperfection name :] And now the Poet, as he had promised,...
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The Historical Reader: Designed for the Use of Schools and Families. On a ...

John Lauris Blake - 1825 - 404 pages
...small ; He fills, he bounds, connects and equals all. 4. Cease, then, nor Order imperfection name ; proper bliss depends on what we blame. Know thy own...{submit in this, or any other sphere, Secure to be as blest as thou canst bear ; Safe in the hand of one disposing Power, Or in the natal, or the. mortal...
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Select Poets of Great Britain: To which are Prefixed, Criticial Notices of ...

William Hazlitt - 1825 - 600 pages
...great, no small ; He fills, he bounds, eonneets, and equals all. Cease then, nor order imperfeetion ) ) Seeure to be as blest as thou eanst bear : Safe in the hand of one disposing power, Or in the natal,...
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Lessons in Elocution, Or, A Selection of Pieces in Prose and Verse: For the ...

William Scott - 1825 - 382 pages
...burns : To him no high, no low, no great, no small ; He fills, he bounds, connects, and equals all. Cease, then, nor ORDER, imperfection name : Our proper...this kind, this due degree Of blindness, weakness, Heav'n bestows OB thee. Submit. — In this or any other sphere, , Secure to be as blest as thou canst...
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The Poems of Alexander Pope: A One-volume Edition of the Twickenham Text ...

Alexander Pope - 1963 - 884 pages
...bounds, III 1 10 and 79 ff; on connects, 1n 23 and 1 1 1 ff; on equals, IV 53-62, esp. 6 1-2 and 326. x. Cease then, nor ORDER Imperfection name: Our proper...This kind, this due degree Of blindness, weakness, Heav'n bestows on thee. Submit — In this, or any other sphere, 285 Secure to be as blest as thou...
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The Great Chain of Being

Arthur O. Lovejoy - 1936 - 404 pages
...confronted with physical or with moral evils, wrote Pope, " to reason well is to submit"; and again: Know thy own point; this kind, this due degree, Of...blindness, weakness, Heaven bestows on thee. Submit! It is, of course, true that the optimistic writers were eager to show that good comes out of evil ;...
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Alexander Pope

Yasmine Gooneratne - 1976 - 164 pages
...taught by Epistle 1 : Know thy own point: This kind, this due degree 283 Of blindness, weakness, Heav'n bestows on thee. Submit - In this, or any other sphere, Secure to be as blest as thou canst bear: Safe in the hand of one disposing Pow'r, Or in the natal, or the mortal hour....
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Impure Reason: Dialectic of Enlightenment in Germany

W. Daniel Wilson, Robert C. Holub - 1993 - 508 pages
...soul." Where the slogan of autonomy fosters a spirit of self-assertion, Pope's message is different: "Know thy own point: this kind, this due degree /...Submit, in this, or any other sphere, / Secure to be as blest as thou canst bear" (1.267-68, 283-86). 6. "Die Schonheit eines kunstlichen Werkes beruht nicht...
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Lissabons Fall - Europas Schrecken: die Deutung des Erdbebens von Lissabon ...

Ulrich Löffler - 1999 - 744 pages
...deren insgesamt gute Ordnung in einem Erkenntnisschritt gegen die kleingläubige Klage zu stellen: „Cease then, nor Order imperfection name:/ Our proper...This kind, this due degree/ Of blindness, weakness, Heav'n bestows on thee[...]" (Pope, Essay, 34,281-36,285). 22 Geliert, Vorlesungen fGS 6J, 471. »...
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The Skeptical Sublime: Aesthetic Ideology in Pope and the Tory Satirists

James Noggle - 2001 - 288 pages
...identification of our moral-social condition with the discourses we may agree upon to use to discuss it: "Cease then, nor ORDER Imperfection name: / Our proper bliss depends on what we blame" (I, 281-2). This injunction comes after the great vision of the universe as "one stupendous whole"...
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