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" Teach me to feel another's woe, To hide the fault I see; That mercy I to others show, That mercy show to me. "
The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope - Page 121
by Alexander Pope - 1804
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Theology in the English Poets: Cowper--Coleridge--Wordsworth and Burns

Stopford Augustus Brooke - 1875 - 362 pages
...discontent At aught Thy Wisdom has denied, Or aught Thy goodness lent. Teach me to feel another's woo, To hide the fault I see ; That mercy I to others show,...show to me. Mean though I am, not wholly so, Since quickened by Thy Breath ; Oh lead me wheresoe'er I go, Through this day's life and death. Nevertheless,...
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Prodigals and Pilgrims: The American Revolution Against Patriarchal ...

Jay Fliegelman - 1982 - 344 pages
...that adorns eighteenth-century American samplers is the opening couplet of Pope's "Universal Prayer": "Teach me to feel another's woe / To hide the fault I see. "M Such deception appeared benign in the earlier part of the century, but in the context of the world...
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Vision and Disenchantment: Blake's Songs and Wordsworth's Lyrical Ballads

Heather Glen, Senior Lecturer Faculty of English Cambridge University and Fellow of New Hall Heather Glen - 1983 - 420 pages
...for Pope - a teacher and rewarder: nor is morality a legalistic bargaining with Him: Teach me to fed another's Woe; To hide the fault I see; That Mercy I to others show. That Mercy show to me. Yet Blake is not sentimentally celebrating a necessary goodness in which man can weakly trust. In another...
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The Papers of Andrew Johnson, Volume 6

Andrew Johnson - 1967 - 904 pages
...she should ponder well the following verse in Pope's universal prayer. Teach me to feel another's wo. To hide the fault I see, That mercy I to others show, That mercy show TO ME.' A few years ago a majority of the Tennessee rebels were like the father of poor Young the fast friends...
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The South Western Reporter, Volume 282

1926 - 1264 pages
...finds a beautiful foundation in the sentiment : "Tench me to feel another's woe, To hide the faulte I see. That mercy I to others show. That mercy show to me." When organized society becomes so esthetic in its taste that It feels called upon to withdraw its protection...
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Charlotte Temple and Lucy Temple

Susanna Rowson - 1991 - 324 pages
...breakfasted, she prepared to visit Charlotte. CHAPTER XXI oo Teach me to feel another's woe, To hid the fault I see, That mercy I to others show, That mercy show to me. Pope, When Mrs. Beauchamp was dressed, she began to feel embarrassed at the thought of beginning an...
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Declaring Independence: Jefferson, Natural Language, and the Culture of ...

Jay Fliegelman - 1993 - 296 pages
...Human Understanding and the Principles of Morals, p. 253. The couplet from "The Universal Prayer" is "Teach me to feel another's Woe /To hide the Fault I see," in Alexander Pope, Pope: Poetical Works, p. 626. 28. Adams, Diary and Autobiography, 1: 282. 29. Hopkinson,...
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John Huston's Filmmaking

Lesley Brill - 1997 - 292 pages
...verse that reflects what may be the desire of middle age to cope with impatience and disappointment: "Teach me to feel another's woe, / To hide the fault...mercy I to others show, / That mercy show to me." Next appears a collection of porcelain and glass slippers, traces of Cinderella that resonate sadly...
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States of Sympathy: Seduction and Democracy in the American Novel

Elizabeth Barnes - 1997 - 176 pages
...designed to direct reader response as well as to forestall potential criticism. With chapters entitled "Teach me to feel another's woe, /To hide the fault...That mercy I to others show / That mercy show to me," and "Which People Void of Feeling Need Not Read," Rowson separates the sympathetically redeemed from...
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The Wordsworth Dictionary of Quotations

Connie Robertson - 1998 - 686 pages
...thyself, presume not God to scan: The proper study of mankind is man. bill 8944 'The Universal Prayer' Teach me to feel another's woe; To hide the fault...That mercy I to others show, That mercy show to me. 8945 The Rape of the Lock Fair tresses man's imperial race ensnare, And beauty draws us with a single...
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