 | Alexander Pope - 1822 - 368 pages
...better way. Save me alike from foolish Pride, Or impious Discontent, At aught thy Wisdom has deny'd, Or aught thy Goodness lent. Teach me to feel another's...Woe, To hide the Fault I see ; That Mercy I to others shew, That Mercy shew to me. Ver. 25. this weak, unknowing hand] Forbearing one another, and forgiving... | |
 | Alexander Pope - Poetry - 1963 - 884 pages
...Save me alike from foolish Pride, Or impious Discontent, At ought thy Wisdom has deny'd, 35 Or ought thy Goodness lent. Teach me to feel another's Woe;...That Mercy I to others show, That Mercy show to me. 40 Mean tho' I am, not wholly so Since quicken'd by thy Breath, O lead me wheresoe'er I go, Thro' this... | |
 | Stopford Augustus Brooke - Literary Criticism - 1875 - 362 pages
...oh teach my heart To find that better way. * Save me alike from foolish Pride, Or impious 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,... | |
 | Jay Fliegelman - History - 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... | |
 | Heather Glen - Literary Criticism - 1983 - 420 pages
...for Pope - a teacher and rewarder: nor is morality a legalistic bargaining with Him: Teach me to fed another's Woe; To hide the fault I see; That Mercy I to others show. That Mercy show to me. Yet Blake is not sentimentally celebrating a necessary goodness in which man can weakly trust. In another... | |
 | Andrew Johnson - Biography & Autobiography - 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... | |
 | Susanna Rowson - Fiction - 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 - History - 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 - Language Arts & Disciplines - 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 - Performing Arts - 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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Teach me to feel another's woe, To hide the fault I see; That mercy I to others show, That mercy show to me. 
