 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 - Page 26by Nicholas Rowe - 1797 - 57 pagesFull view - About this book
 | John Bell - 1797 - 462 pages
...intricate ; Puzzled in mazes, and perplex'd with errors, < )ur understanding traces them in vain, 'xist and bewilder'd in the fruitless search ; Nor sees...confusion ends. Marc. These are suggestions of a mind at erase : Oh, Portius, didst thou taste but half the griefs Thatwringmy soul, thou couldst not talk thus... | |
 | 1803 - 440 pages
...Heav'n are dark and intricate, Puzzled in mazes, and perplex'd with errors. Our understanding traces 'em in vain, Lost and bewilder'd in the fruitless search...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... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1804 - 470 pages
...told us : The ways of Heaven are dark and intricate, Puzzled in mazes, and perplex'd with errors i Our understanding traces them in vain, Lost and bewilder'd in the fruitless, search ; iMARCUS. These are suggestions of a mind at ease : Oh Portias! didst thou taste but half the griefs... | |
 | 1807 - 474 pages
...error in the pointing. It is in the speech of Portius : " The ways of Heaven are dark and intricate, Puzzled in mazes, and perplex'd with errors; Our understanding...vain, Lost and bewilder'd in the fruitless search." Knox's Ed. Act l,Sc.1. The semi-colon should come after intricate, and the comma after errors; for,... | |
 | John Parkhurst - 1807 - 890 pages
...errors; Our uivitritjndrny trace! tierti in vain, Lost and bewilder 'd in the fruitless search; Nor see* with how much art the windings run, Nor where the regular confusion ends." ADDISON. So Job xiii. 3, tl'ho is this that C'byo hideth countcl without, 01 beyond (human) know/edge.... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1808 - 370 pages
...reflection of Portius ? ' The ways of heaven are dark and intricate, Pnzzled in mazes, and pcrplex'd 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... | |
 | John Walker - 1810 - 394 pages
...father oft has told us, The ways of heav'n are dark and intricate, Puzzled in mazes and perplex'd in errors ; Our understanding traces them in vain, Lost...windings run, Nor where the regular confusion ends. If, I say, from not having considered this passage-, we run the second line into the third, by suspending... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 384 pages
...ways of heaven are dark and intricate, Puzzled in mazes, and perplex'd with errors ; Our understandmg traces them in vain, Lost and bewilder'd in the fruitless...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... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 620 pages
...Puzzled in mazes, and perplex'd with erreurs, Our understanding traces them in vain, Lost and bewilder d in the fruitless search ; Nor sees with how much art...the windings run, Nor where the regular confusion end«. MARCUS. The?e are suggestions of a mind at ease: Oh Portius, didst thou taste but half the eriefs... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 664 pages
...Puzzled in mazes, and perplex'd with errours. Our understanding traces them in vain, Lost and bewilder d in the fruitless search ; Nor sees with how much art the windings run, Nor where the regular confusion ends. MARCUS. i These are suggestions of a mind at ease: Oh Portius, didst thou taste but... | |
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