 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...  An Essay on Man: In Four Epistles to Henry St. John, Lord Bolingbroke - Page 47by Alexander Pope - 1844 - 48 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Francis William Pitt Greenwood - Hymns - 1834 - 556 pages
...of all! in every age, In every clime adored, By saint, by savage, or by sage, The universal Lord! 2 Thou great first cause! least understood Who all my...— that thou art good, And that myself am blind; 3 What conscience dictates to be done, Or warns me not to do, This teach me, more than hell, to shun... | |
 | Lindley Murray - English language - 1834 - 236 pages
...are the conjectures of Drydeu. Thou great First Cause, least understood I Who all my sense confin'd To know but this, that thou art good, And that myself am hlind : Yet gave me in this dark estate, &c. What art thou, speak, that, on designs unknown, While... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1835 - 350 pages
...the countless fables and follies of the Greek and Roman mythology. UNIVERSAL PRAYER. DEO OPT. MAX. FATHER of all ! in every age, In every clime adored,...or Lord ! Thou Great First Cause, least understood, .ri Who all my sense confined To know but this, that thou art good, And that myself am blind ; 4 Jehovah,... | |
 | Hymns, English - 1835 - 562 pages
...place us, when that journey's o'er, At thy right hand, O God ! HYMN 40. CM The Universal Prayer. 1 FATHER of all ! in every age, In every clime adored, By saint, by savage, or by sage, The universal Lord ! 2 Thou great First Cause ! least understood ; Who all my sense confined,... | |
 | Alexander Pope - English poetry - 1836 - 332 pages
...and terminated in piety : that the First Cause was as well the Lord and Governor of the universe os the Creator of it; and that, by submission to his...confined To know but this, That thou art good, And tliat myself am blind ; Vet gave me, in this dark estate, To see the good from ill ; And, binding Nature... | |
 | Alexander Pope - English poetry - 1836 - 502 pages
...to this paraphrase. FATHER of all ! in every age, In every clime adored, By saint, hy savage, and hy S R hut this, That thou art good, And that myself am hlind ; Yet gave me, in this dark estate, To see the... | |
 | Religion - 1836 - 432 pages
...religious system, are riot peculiar in this sentiment. Pope's Universal Prayer is to the same effect. "Father of all, in every age, In every clime adored, By saint, by savage, or by sage, Jehovah, Jore, or Lora." The well-known metrical adage of this poet is adapied, to the... | |
 | Christian biography - 1836 - 436 pages
...religious system, are not peculiar in this sentiment. Pope's Universal Prayer is to the same effect "Father of all, in every age, In every clime adored, By saint, by savage, or by sage, Jehovah, Jove, or Lord." The well-known metrical adage of this poet is adapted, to the... | |
 | Hymns, English - 1837 - 550 pages
...strong, and quick revive The withering plants from their decay. 376. CM *POPE. The Universal Prayer. 1 THOU great First Cause ! least understood, Who all...this, — that thou art good, And that myself am blind ! 2 Let not this weak unknowing hand Presume thy bolts to throw, And deal damnation round the land... | |
 | Charles Bucke - 1837 - 422 pages
...extends a little beyond the stars, on all sides surrounding them like an atmosphere. How beautiful ! Thou great FIRST CAUSE, least understood. Who all...this, that thou art good, And that myself am blind. Engaged thus, we, at length, brought our imaginations from the more distant regions of space, to the... | |
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