| 1827 - 290 pages
...pride, Or impious discontent, At aught thy wisdom has deny'd, Or aught thy goodness lent. Teach jne to feel another's woe ; To hide the fault I see :...That mercy I to others show, That mercy show to me. Mean though I am, not wholly so, Since quick'n'd by thy breath : O lead me wheresoe'er I go, Through... | |
| Stopford Augustus Brooke - 1875 - 362 pages
...discontent At aught Thy Wisdom has denied, Or aught Thy goodness lent. Teach me to feel another's woo, To hide the fault I see ; That mercy I to others show, That mercy show to me. Mean though I am, not wholly so, Since quickened by Thy Breath ; Oh lead me wheresoe'er I go, Through... | |
| Jay Fliegelman - 1982 - 344 pages
...that adorns eighteenth-century American samplers is the opening couplet of Pope's "Universal Prayer": "Teach me to feel another's woe / To hide the fault I see. "M Such deception appeared benign in the earlier part of the century, but in the context of the world... | |
| Andrew Johnson - 1967 - 904 pages
...she should ponder well the following verse in Pope's universal prayer. Teach me to feel another's wo. To hide the fault I see, That mercy I to others show, That mercy show TO ME.' A few years ago a majority of the Tennessee rebels were like the father of poor Young the fast friends... | |
| Emma Dorothy Eliza Nevitte Southworth - 1988 - 548 pages
...cottage. He was all agog with joy and eagerness to tell her the good news. CHAPTER XIX THE RESIGNED SOUL "This day be bread and peace my lot; All else beneath the sun Thou knowest if best bestowed or not, And let thy will be done." —Pope ' POOR MAR.AH ROCkE had schooled... | |
| Susanna Rowson - 1991 - 324 pages
...breakfasted, she prepared to visit Charlotte. CHAPTER XXI oo Teach me to feel another's woe, To hid the fault I see, That mercy I to others show, That mercy show to me. Pope, When Mrs. Beauchamp was dressed, she began to feel embarrassed at the thought of beginning an... | |
| Jay Fliegelman - 1993 - 296 pages
...Human Understanding and the Principles of Morals, p. 253. The couplet from "The Universal Prayer" is "Teach me to feel another's Woe /To hide the Fault I see," in Alexander Pope, Pope: Poetical Works, p. 626. 28. Adams, Diary and Autobiography, 1: 282. 29. Hopkinson,... | |
| Elizabeth Barnes - 1997 - 176 pages
...designed to direct reader response as well as to forestall potential criticism. With chapters entitled "Teach me to feel another's woe, /To hide the fault...That mercy I to others show / That mercy show to me," and "Which People Void of Feeling Need Not Read," Rowson separates the sympathetically redeemed from... | |
| Lesley Brill - 1997 - 292 pages
...verse that reflects what may be the desire of middle age to cope with impatience and disappointment: "Teach me to feel another's woe, / To hide the fault...mercy I to others show, / That mercy show to me." Next appears a collection of porcelain and glass slippers, traces of Cinderella that resonate sadly... | |
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