...or a sparrow fall, Atoms or systems into ruin hurl'd, And now a bubble burst, and now a world. 1 1 Hope humbly then ; with trembling pinions soar : Wait...never is, but always to be blest. The soul uneasy, and confin'd from home, Rests and expatiates in a life to come. 12 Lo ! the poor Indian, whose untutor'd...

...or a sparrow fall, 8 Atoms or systems into ruin hurl'd And now a bubble burst, and now a world. 96 Hope humbly then ; with trembling pinions soar : Wait...blessing now. Hope springs eternal in the human breast : 95 Man never is, but always to be blest. The foul uneasy, and confin'd from home, Rests and expatiates...

...now a world. Hope humbly then; with trembling pinionaaoar; Wait the great teacher death ; and liod y, Presenting Thebes' or Pelope' line, Or the tale...Virgin, that thy power Might raise Musœus from his confin'd from home, Rests and expatiates in a life to come. Lo, the poor Indian ! whose untutor'd mind...

...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...

...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...

...78-98, and in The Great Chain of Being (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1948), chaps. 7 and io. 7. Hope humbly then; with trembling pinions soar; Wait...The soul uneasy and confined from home, Rests and expiates in a life to come. (Pope, Essay, Episde I, lines 91-98) 8. L'homme, étranger à soi, Je l'homme...

...78-98, and in The Great Chain of Being (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1948), chaps. 7 and 10. 7. Hope humbly then; with trembling pinions soar; Wait...never Is, but always To be blest: The soul uneasy and confmed from home, Rests and expiates in a life to come. (Pope. Essay, Epistle I, lines 91-98) 8. L'homme,...

...78-98, and in Tl1e Great Chain of Being (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1948), chaps. 7 and 10. 7. Hope humbly then; with trembling pinions soar; Wait...he gives not thee to know, But gives that hope to he thy blessing now. Hope sprmgs eternal in the human breast: Man never Is, but always To be blest:...

...beyond reason, for that shows more desire than judgment. William Perm, Some Fruits of Solitude (1693) 10 Hope springs eternal in the human breast: Man never Is, but always To be blest. Alexander Pope, An Essay on Man, i (1734) 1 1 Hope is necessary in every condition. The miseries...

...Adorns and cheers our way; And still, as darker grows the night, Emits a lighter ray. OLIVER GOLDSMITH Hope springs eternal in the human breast: Man never is, but always to be blest. ALEXANDER POPE Sam: "Have you ever realized any of your childhood hopes?" Cam: "Yes, when mother...