Know then thyself presume not god to scan
- DMI number:
- 12322
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Evidence:
- First Line:
- Know then thyself presume not god to scan
- Last Line:
- Tis this though man's a fool yet god is wise
- Poem Genre / Form:
- Essay and Couplet
- Themes:
- Philosophical enquiry
- Author:
- Alexander Pope
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Comments:
- Extract from Essay on Man Epistle II. Twickenham edition III i.
- First Line:
- Awake my St John leave all meaner things
- Last Line:
- One truth is clear whatever is is right
- Relationship:
- Unknown
- Comments:
- First Line:
- Go wondrous mount where science guides
- Last Line:
- Then drop into thyself and be a fool
- Relationship:
- Extract Of/Extracted In
- Comments:
- First Line:
- Here then we rest the universal cause
- Last Line:
- And bade self love and social be the same
- Relationship:
- Unknown
- Comments:
- First Line:
- Know then thyself presume not God to scan
- Last Line:
- The glory jest and riddle of the world
- Relationship:
- Extract Of/Extracted In
- Comments:
- First Line:
- O happiness our being's end and aim
- Last Line:
- And all our knowledge is ourselves to know
- Relationship:
- Unknown
- Comments:
- First Line:
- Virtuous and vicious every man must be
- Last Line:
- Tis this though man's a fool yet god is wise
- Relationship:
- Extract Of/Extracted In
- Comments:
- Title:
- A collection of moral and sacred poems from the most celebrated English authors [vol I] [T16524] [ECCO]
- Page No(s):
- pp.313-322
- Poem Title:
- Epistle II.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- Title:
- Poems, a chosen collection [N21151]
- Page No(s):
- pp.23-36
- Poem Title:
- An Essay on Man. Epistle II.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- Title:
- A collection of poems [T120670] [ecco]
- Page No(s):
- pp.110-117
- Poem Title:
- Epistle II.
- Attribution:
- By Alexander Pope, Esq.
- Attributed To:
- Alexander Pope
- Title:
- A collection of poems, essays and epistles [T119421] [ecco]
- Page No(s):
- pp.20-29
- Poem Title:
- Epistle II.
- Attribution:
- By Alexander Pope Esq;
- Attributed To:
- Alexander Pope
- Title:
- A collection of poems, essays and epistles [T167515] [ecco]
- Page No(s):
- pp.20-29
- Poem Title:
- Epistle II.
- Attribution:
- By Alexander Pope, Esq.
- Attributed To:
- Alexander Pope
- Title:
- A collection of poems, essays and epistles [T167516] [ecco]
- Page No(s):
- pp.20-29
- Poem Title:
- Epistle II.
- Attribution:
- By Alexander Pope, Esq;
- Attributed To:
- Alexander Pope
- Title:
- A collection of poems. [T121161] [ECCO]
- Page No(s):
- pp.20-29
- Poem Title:
- Epistle II.
- Attribution:
- Alexander Pope, Esq.
- Attributed To:
- Alexander Pope
Poem Aliases
Pope. Essay on Man. Epistle 2.
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