Remember what our father oft has told us : The ways of heaven are dark and intricate, Puzzled in mazes, and perplex'd with errors : Our understanding traces them in vain, Lost and bewilder'd in the fruitless search : Nor sees with how much art the windings... The Fair Penitent: A Tragedy - Página 26por Nicholas Rowe - 1797 - 57 páginasVista completa - Acerca de este libro
| John Brodhead Romeyn - 1816 - 460 páginas
...him"." The dispensations of his providence are oftentimes mysterious, and to us incomprehensible. " Our understanding traces them in vain, Lost and bewilder'd in the fruitless search ; Nor FIT* with how much art the windings run, Nor where the regular confusion ends'." Such knowledge is... | |
| Ralph Eddowes - 1817 - 236 páginas
...in mazes, and perplexed with errors; " Our understanding traces them in vain, " Lost and bewildered in the fruitless search ; " Nor sees with how much...windings run, " Nor where the regular confusion ends." In effect, if we were to discard the belief of tin-s most important truth, we .should lose our principal,... | |
| Robert Huish - 1818 - 904 páginas
...The ways of Heaven are dark and intricate, " Puzzled in mazes, and perplex'd with error ; " The human understanding traces them in vain, " Lost and bewilder'd...windings run, " Nor where the regular confusion ends." The happiness of the early years of the Princess Charlotte had been imbittered by the unfortunate dissensions... | |
| Edward Fitzball - 1819 - 246 páginas
...perplex'd in error* ; Our understanding trace* them in rain, Lost and bewildered in the fruitless •earch, Nor sees with how much art the windings run, Nor -where the regular confusion ends." recovering from a state of torpor, into which, the bitterness of oppression had thrown him, Valentine... | |
| 1821 - 436 páginas
...the speech of Porlius. " The ways of heaven are dark and intricate, Puzzled in mazes, and perplexed with errors ; Our understanding traces them in vain, Lost and bewilder'd in the fruitless search." KNOX'S Edit. Act I. Scene 1 . The semicolon should come after intricate, and the comma after errors:... | |
| Alexander Chalmers - 1822 - 508 páginas
...reflection of Portius ! ' The ways of heaven are dark and intricate, Puzzled in mazes, and perplexed with errors ; Our understanding traces them in vain,...windings run, Nor where the regular confusion ends.' * Cato's soliloquy at the beginning of the fifth act is inimitable, as indeed is almost every thing... | |
| Sarah Brealey - 1823 - 408 páginas
...out the work that God doth from beginning to end. (j) " The ways of heav'n are dark and intricate, " Puzzled in mazes, and perplex'd with errors ; " Our...windings run, " Nor where the regular confusion ends." Addison. Who is this, says Job, that hideth counsel without, or beyond (human) knowledge? (k) meaning... | |
| Lionel Thomas Berguer - 1823 - 324 páginas
...elegant, just, and virtuous, is that reflection of Portius ! The wajs of Heaven are dark and intricate, Puzzled in mazes, and perplex'd with errors ; Our...windings run, Nor where the regular confusion ends. ' Gate's soliloquy at the beginning of the fifth act is inimitable, as indeed is almost every thing... | |
| James Ferguson - 1823 - 360 páginas
...elegant, just and virtuous is that reflection of Portius! The ways of Heaven are dark and intricate, Puzzled in mazes, and perplex'd with errors; Our understanding traces them in vain, Lost and bcwilder'd in the fruitless search; Nor sees with how much art the windings run, Nor where the regular... | |
| British poets - 1824 - 676 páginas
...When wicked men make promises of truth, PROVIDENCE. The ways of Heaven are dark and intricate, Puzzl'd in mazes, and perplex'd with errors ; Our understanding...windings run, Nor where the regular confusion ends. Addison's Coto. This is thy work, almighty Providence ! Whose power, beyond the stretch of human thought,... | |
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