 | Michael Boylan, James A. Donahue - 2003 - 178 pages
...Pope's didactic heroic meter (iambic pentameter with rhymed couplets)—was thought to be beautifill. 15 Hope springs eternal in the human breast: Man never is, but always To be blest. (An Essay on Man Epistle 1,1. 95,1733) The act of critical appreciation began with a scansion... | |
 | Michael Shermer - 2003 - 372 pages
...message better than Alexander Pope did over two and a half centuries ago, in his 1733 Essay on Man: Hope springs eternal in the human breast; Man never Is, but always To be blest. The soul, uneasy, and confin'd from home, Rests and expatiates in a life to come. By itself,... | |
 | Michael Boylan - 2004 - 282 pages
...Pope's didactic heroic meter (iambic pentameter with rhymed couplets) — was thought to be beautiful.22 Hope springs eternal in the human breast: Man never Is, but always To be blest. (An Essay on Man, Epistle 1, 1. 95, 1733) The act of critical appreciation began with a scansion... | |
 | Stephen J. Candela - 2004 - 244 pages
...reflects on mankind: the past, the present, and the future. In Pandora's Box, the only thing left is hope. Hope springs eternal in the human breast, man never is but always to be blessed. —Alexander Pope 224 T Bibliography Bibliography Charles J. Boyle: Absolution, Charlie Company,... | |
 | James W. Komarnicki - 2004 - 322 pages
..."Hope is the feeling that you will succeed tomorrow in what you failed at today " (McLellan 2000). "Hope springs eternal in the human breast; Man never is, but always to be blest" (Alexander Pope in McLellan 2000). "Where hope is gone, defeat prevails" (McLellan 2000). "Faith... | |
 | Rusty Clark - 2005 - 182 pages
...Memory of the amiable Consort of Mr. Eliphalet Leonard was born June 2'd 1730 & died May 3 Oth 1773 Hope humbly then; with trembling pinions soar; Wait the great teacher, Death, and God adore. The name of Abigail Leonard is missing from this gravestone; whether an oversight or a deliberate omission,... | |
 | J. I. Packer, Carolyn Nystrom - 2005 - 180 pages
...that is better than the past is as natural as breathing. As Alexander Pope said in his pompous way: "Hope springs eternal in the human breast: / Man never is, but always to be blest." To be sure, there are individuals, families, human groups and entire cultures with pessimistic... | |
 | William R. Newell - 2005 - 506 pages
...flesh, dwelleth no good thing." The legal covenant, in any form, brings only into bondage. Pope's lines, "Hope springs eternal in the human breast: Man never is, but always to be, blest," are true in general; the first line is absolutely true concerning legal hope — unless God... | |
 | John T. Scott - 2006 - 496 pages
...l'homme avec lui seul apprit à se connaître. Poem on Natural law, Exordium 11. 15, 17-18 8 "Hope humbly then; with trembling pinions soar; Wait the...in the human breast: Man never Is, but always To be blest: The soul uneasy and confined from home, Rests and expiates in a life to come." Pope, Essay,... | |
 | Larry Chang - 2006 - 826 pages
...Rochefoucauld, 1613-1680 ~ For hope is but the dream of those that wake. ~ Matthew Prior, 1664-1721 ~ Hope springs eternal in the human breast: Man never is, but always To Be Blest. ~ Alexander Pope, 1688-1744 ~ Essay on Man, Epistle 1, 1.95 He that lives upon hope will die... | |
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Hope humbly then ; with trembling pinions soar, Wait the great teacher, Death ; and God adore. What future bliss, he gives not thee to know, But gives that hope to be thy blessing now. Hope springs eternal in the human breast : Man never Is, but always... 
