 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
 | Alexander Pope - Poetry - 1963 - 884 pages
...(1695?-1723), actress, sister of Mrs. Younger. Father of All ! in every Age, In every Clime ador'd, By Saint, by Savage, and by Sage, Jehovah, Jove, or Lord! Thou Great First Cause, least Understood! 5 Who all my Sense confin'd To know but this, — that Thou art Good, And that my self am blind : Yet... | |
 | English periodicals - 1925 - 1028 pages
...be well. Offpnd her, and she knows not to forgive ; Oblige her, and she'l! hate you while you live. Father of All ! In every Age. In every clime, adored,...Saint, by Savage, and by Sage, Jehovah. Jove, or Lord I If I am right, thy grace impart, Still in the right to stay : If I am wrong, oh teach my heart To... | |
 | Heather Glen, Senior Lecturer Faculty of English Cambridge University and Fellow of New Hall Heather Glen - Literary Criticism - 1983 - 420 pages
...been written, Pope's 'The Universal Prayer':86 149 Father of All! in every Age, In every Clime ador'd, By Saint, by Savage, and by Sage, Jehovah, Jove, or...Great First Cause, least Understood! Who all my Sense confin'd To know but this, - that Thou art Good, And that my self am blind: Yet gave me, in this dark... | |
 | Edith P. Hazen - Literary Criticism - 1992 - 1172 pages
...Ill) FaBoPP; FiP, HAP; NoP; OAEL-1; OBNV; OBSV; OxBoLi; PoEL-3; TEP; TrGrPo The Universal Prayer 126 rGrPo 41 POETRY QUOTATIONS 42 4 the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong. 127 What blessings thy free bounty gives Let me not cast away; For God is paid when man receives. To... | |
 | John Sanders - Religion - 1992 - 340 pages
...salvation. 73 The poet Alexander Pope anticipated such ideas when he wrote his "Universal Prayer": Father of all, in every age In every clime, adored By saint, by savage, or by sage, Jehovah, Jove, or Lord. In the same spirit, John Hick has written that "all salvation —... | |
 | Robert Taylor - 1996 - 728 pages
...parent of all things, llemon of maoy uame.1/ Which Pope has verified in that truly Catholic stanza : ' Father of all, in every age, In every clime adored...by savage, and by sage, * Jehovah, Jove, or Lord.' And understanding now, who the Lord is, the unknown quantity is found, and the equation is solved.... | |
 | 1906 - 510 pages
...cease to generate new thought, to plan, to execute, we begin to decay. — LINDA A. SMITH, in Freedom. Father of all! in every age In every clime adored,...saint, by savage and by sage — Jehovah, Jove or Lord. af «5 J2 0 8 _ . cti e \M * I I -S MAN DIVINE. BY EDNA L. CARTER. Paul talks about the Christ, or... | |
 | Blanford Parker - Literary Criticism - 1998 - 282 pages
...principle, disembodied and incalculable. Thou Great First Cause, least Understood! Who all my Sense confin'd To know but this, - that Thou art Good, And that myself am blind: ("The Universal Prayer," 5-8)2 The sterile effect and bathetic triviality of Pope's attempt at metrical... | |
 | Stanley E. Porter, Michael A. Hayes, David Tombs - Religion - 2001 - 506 pages
...T. Traherne, Selected Poems and Prose (ed. A. Bradford; Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1991), p. 197. Father of all ! In every age, In every clime adored....By saint, by savage, and by sage, Jehovah, Jove, or Lord!25 Such a deity is certainly not expected to intervene to establish an earthly kingdom. The fervour... | |
 | Hubert Harrison - History - 2001 - 510 pages
...proceeded to build me a God of what was left. Do you remember [Alexander] Pope's Universal Prayer? "Father of all, in every age In every clime adored, By saint, by savage & by sage Jehovah, Jove, or Lord." It was what I came to. But in the meanwhile, Time, the great healer,... | |
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