“The Providence of heaven
Has some peculiar blessing given
To each allotted state below.”
Book I, Ode II, No. 1: "For the Winter Solstice", stanza v, lines 48–50
Odes on Several Subjects (1745)
Book III, lines 109–113
The Pleasures of the Imagination (1744)
“Heaven's all-subduing will,
With good the progeny of ill,
Attempreth every state below.”
Book I, Ode II, No. 2: "On the Winter Solstice", stanza vi, lines 58–60
Odes on Several Subjects (1745)