 Father of all! in every age, In every clime adored, By saint, by savage, and by sage, Jehovah, Jove, or Lord! Thou Great First Cause, least understood, Who all my sense confined To know but this, that Thou art good, And that myself am blind...  The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope - Page 221by Alexander Pope - 1890 - 550 pagesFull view - About this book
 | John Bell - English poetry - 1796 - 524 pages
...sage, Jehovah, Jovet or Lord ! Thou Great First Cause, least understood, j Who all my sense confin'd To know but this, That thou art Good, And that myself...me, in this dark estate, To see the good from ill ; IP And binding Nature fast in Fate, Left free the human will. What Conscience dictates to be done,... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1804 - 236 pages
...sage, . Jehovah, Jove, or Lord ! Thou Great First Cause, least understood, S Who all my sense confin'd To know but this, that thou art Good, And that myself...gave me in this dark estate, To see the good from ill ; 10 And binding Nature fast in Fate, Left free the human will, What conscience dictates to be done,... | |
 | Joseph Butler - 1804 - 462 pages
...his Universal Prayer, though, perhaps, he may have expressed it rather too strongly, where he says, " What conscience dictates to be done, " Or warns me...teach me more than hell to shun, " That more than heaven pursue." B, The raider will observe, that this way of treating the subject of morals, by an... | |
 | E. Tomkins - 1804 - 416 pages
...from ill ; And, hinding-nature fast in fate, Left free the human will. What conscience dictates tg he done. Or warns me not to do, This, teach me more than hell to shun, That more than heaven pursue. What hlessings thy free hounty gives, Let me not cast away ; For God is paid when man... | |
 | Charles Brockden Brown - American literature - 1805 - 500 pages
...is certainly irreconcileable with the spirit and obligations of revealed religion. What consciencc dictates to be done, Or warns me not to do, This teach me, more than hell, to shun, That, more than heaven, pursue. What blessings thy free bounty gives Let me not cast away ; For God it paid when man... | |
 | Albin Joseph U. Hennet - 1806 - 458 pages
...Jehovah, Jove , or Lord ! Thou , great first cause , least understood , \Vho all my sense confin'd To know but this , that thou art good , And that myself...than hell to shun ,' That, more than heav'n pursue. POPE. LA PRIÈRE UNIVERSELLE. \-J TOI qui créas tout, à qui tout rend hommage, O toi qu'en tout tems... | |
 | Albin-Joseph-Ulpien Hennet - English poetry - 1806 - 456 pages
..."Who all my sense confin'd To knew but this, that thou art good, And that myself am blind. Yet, gaye me, in this dark estate, To see the good from ill...than hell to shun," That, more than heav'n pursue. * . • • POPE. LA PRIÈRE UNIVERSELLE. O TOI qui créas tout, a qui tout rend hommage, O toi qu'en... | |
 | E Tomkins - 1806 - 280 pages
...savage, and by sage, Thou great first cause, least understood; Who all my sense confin'd To know hat this, that thou art good. And that myself am blind....in this dark estate. To see the good from ill; And, hinding nature fast in fate, Left free the human will. What conscience dictates to be done, Or warns... | |
 | English poetry - 1806 - 408 pages
...me in this dark estate, To see the good from ill ; Jknd binding nature fast in fate. toft frw (h« human, will, What conscience dictates to be done,...warns me not to do, This, teach me more than hell to shuu, That, more than heav'n, pursue. , ,,.. . ' What blessings thy free bounty gives, Let me not cast... | |
 | Lindley Murray - English language - 1808 - 542 pages
...are the conjectures of Dry den. Thou great First Cause, least understood! Who all my sense confm'd To know but this, that thou art good. And that myself am blind : Yet gave me in this dark estate, &c. The following examples are adapted to the notes iind olservatiois *nder KVLE v. Volume I. page... | |
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