 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
 | William Bengo Collyer - 1812 - 980 pages
...understood, -"- Who all my sense confin'd To know but this, that thou art good, And that myself am blind ; 2 Yet gave me in this dark estate, To see the good from...binding nature fast in fate, Left free the human will ! 3 What conscience dictates to be done, Or warns me not to do; Thin — teach me more than hell to... | |
 | Mr. Harrison (Ralph) - 1812 - 118 pages
...preferable to mirth i this may be considered as an act, that as a habit of the mind. 1 What esnscience dictates to be done, Or warns me not to do .This teach...more than hell to shun, That more than heav'n pursue. Pope. 140. The interjections O, Oh and Ah, require the objective case of a pronoun in the first person,... | |
 | Joseph Butler - 1813 - 496 pages
...his Universal Prayer, though, perhaps, he may have expressed it rather too strongly, where he says, f What conscience dictates to be done, " Or warns me...teach me more than hell to shun, " That, more than heaven pursue." The reader will observe, that this way of treating the subject of morals, by an appeal... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1813 - 276 pages
...FIRST CAUSE; least understood; ~,1S The English Reader. PART u, Yet gave me in this dark esi.'itu, To see the good from ill ; And binding nature fast in fate, Left free the human will. What eonseienee dietates to be done,. .,,'---.• Or warns me not to do, This teaeh me more than hell to... | |
 | 1814 - 158 pages
...understood ! Who all my sense confin'd To know bat this—that thou art good, And that myself am blind ; 3 Yet gave me, in this dark estate, To see the good...warns me not to do, This teach me more than hell to shoo, That, more than heav'n pursue : 5 What blessings thy free bounty gives, Let me not cast away... | |
 | 1814 - 156 pages
...understood I Who all my sense confin'd To know but this — that thou art good, And that myself am blind ; 3 Yet gave me, in this dark estate, To see the good...binding nature fast in fate, Left free the human will :— i What conseience dictates to be done, Or warns me not to do, This teach me more than hell to... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1815 - 276 pages
...sage, Jehovah, Jove, or Lord \ Thou GREAT FIRST- CAUSE, least understood Who all my sense confin'd To know but this that thou art good, And that myself...warns me not to do, This teach me more than hell to shuri, That more than heav'n pursue. What blessings thy free bounty gives, Let.nae not cast away ;... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1815 - 190 pages
...premised, is the conjecture of Dryden. 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: Yet gave me in this dark estate, &c. " Confnsdst or didst confine :" " Qavat or didst give." What art thou, speak, that, on designs... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1816 - 328 pages
...sage, Jehovah, Jove, or Lord ! Thou GREAT FIRST CAUSE, least understood* Who all my sense confin'd To know but this, that Thou art good, And that myself...nature fast in fate, Left free the human will. What concienee dictates to be done, Or warns me not to do, This teach me more than hell to slum, , That... | |
 | Elizabeth Tomkins - 1817 - 276 pages
...Lord. Thou great First Cause least understood ! Who all my sense confined, To know but this, that tliou art good, And that myself am blind : Yet gave me,...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 is paid when man... | |
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