 | Thomas King Greenbank - 1849 - 446 pages
...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 To be blest: The soul, uneasy, and confined from home, Rests and expatiates in a life to come. His soul,... | |
 | Alexander Pope, William Charles Macready - 1849 - 646 pages
...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 to be blest. The soul, uneasy and confined, from home, Rests and expatiates in a life to come. His soul,... | |
 | Blaise Pascal - 1850 - 482 pages
...mais nous esperons de vivre." t The identity of Pope's sentiment with the above is striking : — " Hope springs eternal in the human breast ; Man never is, but always to be blest." (Transl.) CHAPTER II. ON DECEPTIVE INFLUENCES. (DES PUISSANCES TROMPEUSES.) EDITORIAL NOTICE.... | |
 | Arthur C. Clarke, Gentry Lee - 1992 - 530 pages
...told him that I hoped this coming maneuver signaled the beginning of the end of our journey in Rama. "Hope springs eternal in the human breast./ Man never is, but always to be blessed," he replied. He sat up for a moment and looked at me, his eyes twinkling in the near darkness.... | |
 | John A. Richardson - 1992 - 202 pages
...the lamb in not knowing the future but quite different from it in knowing that there is a future. So Hope springs eternal in the human breast: Man never Is, but always To be blest: (1:95-96) The couplet's reassuring solidity is somewhat undermined by its implication of a deep... | |
 | Wayne H. McAlister, Martha K. McAlister - 2010 - 388 pages
...flattened; Matagorda Peninsula was shorter by 300 yards; Pelican Island was sliced off at the waterline. "Hope springs eternal in the human breast: Man never is, but always to be, blest:"4 At least some of those who were left could look upon the scene of splintered timbers, bloated... | |
 | Martin Gardner - 1995 - 256 pages
...his name is incorrectly spelled "Burrows.") 180 4. The line is from Pope's Essay on Man, Epistle III: Hope springs eternal in the human breast: Man never is, but always to be blest. 5. We learn from The Mighty Casey (page 49) that Casey's batting average for the season is .564.... | |
 | Aileen M. Carroll - 1997 - 124 pages
...to Pandora's act in the Christian belief. What is it? 6. The English poet Alexander Pope once wrote: Hope springs eternal in the human breast; Man never is, but always to be blessed; Paraphrased, Pope is saying that human beings are always hopeful — that they never feel... | |
 | David J. A. Clines - 1997 - 178 pages
...we are for ever preparing to be happy, we shall assuredly never be so.35 Pope could observe wryly: Hope springs eternal in the human breast; Man never is, but always will be blest.36 With Goethe, the supreme value of the present outweighs hopes for the future: 'If... | |
 | Connie Robertson - 1998 - 686 pages
...Nature's God. 89 10 An Essay on Man All our knowledge is, ourselves to know. 891 1 An Essay on Man 2 TP W W L. ; *U ! %t ,7 u P 4 '/p h oi [ ]g ? blest. 8912 Be not the first by whom the new are tried Nor yet the last to lay the old aside. 8913... | |
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Hope springs eternal in the human breast; Man never Is, but always To be blest; The soul, uneasy and confined from home, Rests and expatiates in a life to come. 
