Question:
Is there any place where angels fear to tread?
anil m
2009-06-09 10:41:52 UTC
This is the original form of the famous aphorism. The entire passage, from Part 3 of Alexander Pope's An Essay on Criticism goes:

Such shameless Bards we have; and yet 'tis true,
There are as mad, abandon'd Criticks too.
The Bookful Blockhead, ignorantly read,
With Loads of Learned Lumber in his Head,
With his own Tongue still edifies his Ears,
And always List'ning to Himself appears.
All Books he reads, and all he reads assails,
From Dryden's Fables down to Durfey's Tales.
With him, most Authors steal their Works, or buy;
Garth did not write his own Dispensary.
Name a new Play, and he's the Poet's Friend,
Nay show'd his Faults--but when wou'd Poets mend?
No Place so Sacred from such Fops is barr'd,
Nor is Paul's Church more safe than Paul's Church-yard:
Nay, fly to Altars; there they'll talk you dead;
For Fools rush in where Angels fear to tread.
Distrustful Sense with modest Caution speaks;
It still looks home, and short Excursions makes;
But ratling Nonsense in full Vollies breaks;
And never shock'd, and never turn'd aside,
Bursts out, resistless, with a thundering Tyde!
Seven answers:
Preacher's Daughter
2009-06-09 15:49:29 UTC
Angels are messengers, so they tread where they must.

God cares for them as He does for us.

The only place that angels would have no reason to go is Hell.

But they do not fear it.
anonymous
2009-06-09 17:47:35 UTC
Shame On The Moon



lyrics by Bob Seger



Once inside a womans heart

A man must keep his head

Heaven opens up the door

Where angels fear to tread

Some men go crazy

Some men go slow

Some men go just where they want

Some men never go
ataur_rahi@yahoo.in
2009-06-10 04:59:37 UTC
Yes above the seven no.sky there is a very huge tree,which laef is so big that if any one of it fall on earth it can cover the whole earth.......angel fears to cross that tree even Angel Jibrael (a.s.)....because if any will try to cross this they will burn to ashes.....
Thimmappa M.S.
2009-06-10 06:06:40 UTC
Fools.
Christian
2009-06-09 17:53:06 UTC
the angles cannot enter a domain of something so repulsive you have thoughts of murder unless forced to by their master
Radhakrishna( prrkrishna)
2009-06-10 15:40:11 UTC
WHERE FOOLS WALK IN, THERE THE ANGELS FEAR TO TREAD
cardimom
2009-06-10 15:07:07 UTC
Where fools go.


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