 | John Harrison - Chronometers - 1835 - 338 pages
...singularly illustrative of the poet's axiom, that — Some are, and must be greater than the rest; but who infers from hence That such are happier, shocks all common sense : —never was it more strikingly set off than by this Monarch ; whose favourite Mistress (if she might... | |
 | President of a college - Composition (Language arts) - 1836 - 156 pages
...of similar sounds at the end of certain lines. Q,. Can you exemplify this 1 A. " Order is Heaven's first law; and this confest, Some are, and must be,...hence, That such are happier, shocks all common sense." Q,. What do you call two successive lines rhyming together? A. A couplet; while three, under similar;... | |
 | James Richardson - Africa, North - 1970 - 506 pages
...and mark well the truth of Pope's fine lines, — " Order is heaven's first law, and this confess'd, Some are, and must be, greater than the rest, —...hence That such are happier, shocks all common sense." Our people observed to me, " This is a country of the Sultan, so the women fear nothing." But the environs... | |
 | Yasmine Gooneratne - Literary Criticism - 1976 - 164 pages
...wisdom, wealth, in power over other people : ORDER is Heav'n's first law; and this confest, 1v, 49 Some are, and must be, greater than the rest, More...hence That such are happier, shocks all common sense. Power and wealth do not necessarily keep company with happiness. On the contrary, Reason's whole pleasure,... | |
 | Literary Criticism - 1979 - 188 pages
...against charity schools to be no more satirical than Pope's lines in An Essay on Man: ORDER is Heav'n's first law; and this confest, Some are, and must be...common sense. Heav'n to Mankind impartial we confess. If all are equal in their Happiness: But mutual wants this Happiness increase. All Nature's diff'rence... | |
 | Stephen Edelston Toulmin, Stephen Toulmin, June Goodfield - Philosophy - 1982 - 292 pages
...political conservatism is at times infuriating — Order is Heav'n's first law; and this confess'd, Some are, and must be, greater than the rest, More rich, more wise . . . Nevertheless, in a famous passage which records the ambiguity of Man's position at the mid-point... | |
 | John Caldwell Guilds - Historical fiction, American - 1988 - 294 pages
...leadership was a stabilizing as well as a revolutionary force, for Pope was also right: Order is heaven's first law, and this confest, Some are, and must be, greater than the rest. Consequently, the whig mouvement (a term Simms borrowed from the French), led as it was by aristocrats,... | |
 | Philip J. Regal - Philosophy - 1990 - 383 pages
...beast; All serv'd, all serving: nothing stands alone; The chain holds on, and where it ends unknown. Order is Heav'ns first law; and, this confest, Some...hence That such are happier, shocks all common sense. Condition, circumstance, is not the thing; Bliss is the same in subject or in king, Heav'n breathes... | |
 | Robert Andrews - Reference - 1993 - 1214 pages
...lille page of the Gentleman's lournal (Jan. 1 692). 6 Order is Heaven's first law; and this confessed. Some are, and must be, greater than the rest. More...hence That such are happier, shocks all common sense. Condition, circumstance, is not the thing; Bliss is the same in subject or in king. ALEXANDER POPE... | |
 | G. A. Rosso - Literary Criticism - 1993 - 220 pages
...by the "Music of a well-mix'd State" (3:294). Since "Order is Heav'n's first law," it follows that "Some are, and must be, greater than the rest, / More rich, more wise" (4:49-51). That is simply the great hierarchal standard. But a profound change separates Pope's view... | |
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ORDER is Heaven's first law ; and this confest, Some are, and must be, greater than the rest, More rich, more wise; but who infers from hence That such are happier, shocks all common sense. 
