 Remember what our father oft has told us : The ways of Heav'n 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 Miscellaneous Works: In Verse and Prose - Стр. 73авторы: Joseph Addison - 1777Полный просмотр - Подробнее о книге
 | Joseph Addison - 1713 - Страниц: 222
...Succefs, Diftract my very Soul: Our Father's Fortune Wou'd almoft tempt us to renounce his Precepts. Tor. Remember what our Father oft has told us: The Ways...Heav'n are dark and intricate, Puzzled in Mazes, and perplext with Errors ; Our Underftanding traces 'em in vain, \ Loft and bewildei'd in the fruitlefs... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1733 - Страниц: 94
...very Soul: Our Father's Fortune Wou'd almoft tempt us to renounce his Precepts. For. Remember what.our Father oft has told us: The Ways of Heav'n are dark and intricate; Puzzled in Maxes, and pcrplex'd with Errors; Our Under/tanding traces 'cm in vain, Loft and bewilder'd in the... | |
 | 1747 - Страниц: 584
...Dramatick Performance of a Cotemporary. 'HOW elegant, juft and virtuous is that « Reflexion ofPortius? The Ways of Heav'n are dark and intricate. Puzzled in Mazes and perplex'd with Errors ; Our Under/landing traces 'em in vain, Loft and hewilder' d in the fruitlefi Search ; Nor fees with how... | |
 | Thomas Gibbons - 1767 - Страниц: 540
...May we not range under this Figure the laft of the following lines of Mr ADDISON ? Remember what out father oft has told us : The ways of Heav'n are dark...and perplex'd with errors : Our underftanding traces them in vain, Loft and bewilder'd in the fruitlefs fearch j Nor fees with how much art the windings... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1773 - Страниц: 364
...Diftract my very foul : Our father's fortune Would almoft tempt us to renounce his precepts. PORT l U S. Remember what our father oft has .told us : The...intricate, Puzzled in mazes, and perplex'd with errors* Our underftandiug traces 'em in vain, Loft and bewilder'd in the fruitlefsfearch; Nor fees with how much... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1779 - Страниц: 942
...us to renounce his precepts. PORTIUS. Remember what our father oft has told us i The ways of heaven are dark and intricate, Puzzled in mazes, and perplex'd with errors ; Our underftanding traces them in vain, Loft and bewildcr'd in the fruitlefs fearcli ; Nor fees with how much art the windings... | |
 | Tobias Smollett - 1781 - Страниц: 506
...pronouncing the fpeech of Portius in Cato, which is generally inilpointed, as in the following example : •' Remember what our father oft has told us, •* - •...dark and intricate, Puzzled" in mazes and perplex'd in errors ; Our underflanding traces them in vain, Loft and bcwilder'd in the fruitlefs fearch : Nor... | |
 | Several Hands - 1781 - Страниц: 588
...pronouncing the fpeech of Portius in Cap, which is generally mifpointed, as in the fo'lowing example : Remember what our father oft has told us, The ways of Heav'n are dark and intricate, Puzzl'd in mazes and pcrplex'd in errors ; Our undemanding traces them in vain, Loft and bewi'der'd... | |
 | James Beattie - 1783 - Страниц: 862
...always, mifpointed, is^ I think, generally mifunderftood \ The tS8 THE THEORY fartlL The ways of heaven are dark and intricate, Puzzled in mazes, and perplex'd with errors ; Our underftanding traces them in vain, Loft and bewilder'd in the fruitlefs fearch, &c, Thus the lines are printed in all the... | |
 | John Gifford - 1785 - Страниц: 194
...beneficial purpofes, though the caufe and end of their exifteucc alike elude the grafp of human reafon, " The ways of Heav'n are dark and intricate, " Puzzled...perplex'd with errors, " Our underftanding traces them in vain, " Loft and bewilder 'd in the fruitlefs fearch: " But admitting, my Lord, by way of argument,... | |
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