| Charles Dexter Cleveland - English literature - 1854 - 796 pages
...the heart; For wit's false mirror held up nature's light; Show'd erring pride, whatever is, is right? That reason, passion, answer one great aim ; That...makes our bliss below ; And all our knowledge is, OCBBELVKS TO KNOW ? Eoay on Mm, IT. 373. 1 " In reeding: this exalted description of the omnipresence... | |
| Saint John Henry Newman - Catholic converts - 1854 - 266 pages
...Prayer, which his father had always held up to him as a pattern specimen of shallow philosophism : — " Father of all, in every age, In every clime adored,...saint, by savage, and by sage, Jehovah, Jove, or Lord." CHAPTER X. CHARLES went up this term for his first examination, and this caused him to remain in Oxford... | |
| George Smith - Civilization, Ancient - 1854 - 696 pages
...famous stanza of Pope, •••hich has been so often placed in the hands of our children : — " Father of all, in every age. In every clime adored,...saint, by savage, and by sage, Jehovah, Jove, or Lord." Is jt true, then, that the person and character of the great Jehovah were exhibited of old by the foul... | |
| Epes Sargent - Religious poetry, English - 1854 - 388 pages
...around, with boundless bounty blest, And Heaven beholds its image in his breast. THE UNIVERSAL PRAYER. FATHER of all ! in every age, In every clime adored,...saint, by savage, and by sage, Jehovah, Jove, or Lord ! 17 Thou great First Cause ! least understood ; Who all ray sense confined, To know but this, —... | |
| John Warner Barber - Belgium - 1855 - 608 pages
...written to counteract some hetrodoxical opinions which are alleged to be contained in his Essay on Man. THE UNIVERSAL PRAYER. Deo Opt. Max. FATHER of all...saint, by savage, and by sage, Jehovah, Jove, or Lord I Thou Great First Cause, least understood ; Who all my sense confined To know but this, That thou... | |
| Clavin Henderson Wiley - Readers - 1855 - 380 pages
...fate ; Still achieving, still pursuing, Learn to labour and to wait. THE UNIVERSAL PRAYER. BY POPE. FATHER of all ! in every age, In every clime adored,...by sage, Jehovah, Jove, or Lord ! Thou great First Caus*, least understood ; Who all my sense confined To know but this, that thou art good, And that... | |
| Robert Hare - Spiritualism - 1855 - 484 pages
...Deity entertained by Newton, and this sentiment of Pope's universal prayer, might be adopted: 1240. " Father of all, in every age, In every clime adored,...saint, by savage, and by sage, Jehovah, Jove, or Lord." 1241. As regards ceremonial, that sanctioned by Christ, agreeably to which the brief appeal of the... | |
| Alexander Pope, George Gilfillan - 1856 - 356 pages
...heart ; For Wit's false mirror held up Nature's light ; Showed erring pride, Whatever is, is right ; That Reason, Passion, answer one great aim ; That...below ; And all our knowledge is, Ourselves to know. VARIATIONS. VEB. 373, In the MS. thus— And now transported o'er BO vast a plain, While the wlng'd... | |
| Geoffrey Chaucer - 1856 - 134 pages
...heart ; For wit's false mirror held up nature's light ; Showed erring pride, whatever is, is right ; That reason, passion, answer one great aim ; That...below ; And all our knowledge is, ourselves to know. MESSIAH. A SACRED ECLOGUE. YE Nymphs of Solyma ! begin the song : To heavenly themes sublimer strains... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1856 - 512 pages
...the heart; For Wit's false mirror held up Nature's light; Show'd erring Pride, WHATEVER is, is RIGHT; That Reason, Passion, answer one great aim; That true...bliss below ; And all our knowledge is, OURSELVES TO SAPPHO TO PHAOJf. THE ARGUMENT PHAON, a youth of exquisite beauty, was deeply enamoured of Sappho,... | |
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