 | Thomas Pike Lathy - Fishing - 1822 - 274 pages
...grains ; It flies the deep, and on the surface wheels, Till the approaching hand of death it feels. " 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... | |
 | Lindley Murray, Jeremiah Goodrich - Literature - 1822 - 322 pages
...smooth the bed of death. COTTON. SECTION IX. Providence vindicated in the present state of man. 1. 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... | |
 | John Platts - Conduct of life - 1822 - 844 pages
...advantage; and that is, our ignorance of futurity. This is a most merciful dispensation of Providence. — Heav'n from all creatures hides the book of fate. All but the pageprescrib'd, their present state; From brutes what men, from men what spirits know, Or who could... | |
 | William Enfield - 1823 - 412 pages
...ambition in the fool that uses it. SHAKSPEARE. CHAP. XII. THE PRESENT CONDITION OF MAN VINDICATED. 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... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1824 - 422 pages
...matter, soon or late, or here 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... | |
 | Alexander Pope - English literature - 1824 - 430 pages
...matter, soon or late, or here 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... | |
 | Jesse Torrey - Ethics - 1824 - 308 pages
...here or there? The blest to-day, is as completely so, „ As who began a thousand years ago. 9 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... | |
 | Alexander Pope - English poetry - 1824 - 80 pages
...there : The blest to-day, is as completely so, . fA •As who began a thousand years ago. III. Heaven from all creatures hides the book of fate, All but the page preserib'd, their present state : From brutes what men, from men what spirits know ; Or who could suffer... | |
 | William Hazlitt - English poetry - 1824 - 1062 pages
...or here or there } The blest to-day is as completely so, As who began a thousand years ago. Heaven : Enough if all around him but admire, prescrib'd, their present state ; From brutes what men, from men what spirits know ; Or who could suffer... | |
 | James I (King of Scotland) - English language - 1825 - 308 pages
...reader will not be displeased to see this principle illustrated in the richest glow of poetry. 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 would 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 to-day, Had he thy reason, would... 
