 | Joseph Butler, Samuel Hallifax - Analogy (Religion) - 1819 - 256 pages
...Universal Prayer, though perhaps he may have expressed it rather too strongly, where he say», C " What conscience dictates to be done, " Or warns me not to do, " This teach me MORE ru IN Hell to shun, " That MOBE TIIA v Heaven pursue." The reader will observe, that this way of treating... | |
 | Alexander Pope - Human beings - 1820 - 80 pages
...Lord! 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...binding nature fast in fate, Left free the human will. * It maybe proper to observe, that some passages in the preceding Essay, having been unjustly suspected... | |
 | Philip Henry Wicksteed - 1926 - 708 pages
...would sin, though if he did he would go to hell. It is a startling commentary on the prayer of Pope : " What conscience dictates to be done, Or warns me not...than hell to shun, That, more than heaven pursue." It cannot be doubted, then, that Aquinas fully understands the process by which the intelligence may... | |
 | George Carver - American literature - 1926 - 504 pages
...! Thou Great First Cause, least understood; 5 Who all my sense confined To know but this, That thou art good, And that myself am blind ; Yet gave me, in this dark estate, To see the good from ill ; IO And, binding Nature fast in Fate, Left free the human will : What conscience dictates to be done,... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1926 - 306 pages
...Yet gave me, in this dark Estate, And, binding Nature fast in Fate, Left free the Human Will. /\Vhat Conscience dictates to be done, / Or warns me not to do, This, teach me more than Hell to shun, 15 \ That, more than Heav'n pursue. /''What Blessings Thy free Bounty gives, Let me .not .cast-away... | |
 | Tom Peete Cross, Clement Tyson Goode - English literature - 1927 - 1432 pages
...Lord! Thou Great First Cause, least understood, 5 Who all my sense confined To know but this, that thou w Her husband posting down Into the country far away, 10 And binding Nature fast in Fate, Left free the human Will. What Conscience dictates to be done,... | |
 | Caroline Miles Hill - Religious poetry, English - 1928 - 888 pages
...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! Yet gave me, in...not cast away ; For God is paid when man receives; Yet not to earth's contracted span Thy goodness let me bound, Or think thee Lord alone of man, When... | |
 | Languages, Modern - 1908 - 542 pages
...in what sense we are to understand the expression 'vor Augen haben': — 'What conscience dictatea to be done, Or warns me not to do, This teach me more...than hell to shun, That more than heaven pursue.' (Pope Str. VI.) cf. 'Lehr mich was mein Gewissen sagt, Dem Himmel vorzuziehn! Und lafa mich was er... | |
 | Alexander Pope - Poetry - 1963 - 884 pages
...art Good, And that my self am blind : Yet gave me, in this dark Estate, To see the Good from IlI; 10 And binding Nature fast in Fate, Left free the Human...Conscience dictates to be done, Or warns me not to doe, This, teach me more than Hell to shun, 15 That, more than Heav'n pursue. What Blessings thy free... | |
 | Edith P. Hazen - Literary Criticism - 1992 - 1172 pages
...in every age, In every clime adored, By saint, by savage, and by sage, Jehovah, Jove, or Lord! 127 The very faculties of eyes and ears. Yet I, A dull and muddy-mettled rascal, peak Like John- To enjoy is to obey. 128 If I am right, thy grace impart Still in the right to stay; If I am wrong,... | |
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To know but this, that Thou art good, And that myself am blind; Yet gave me, in this dark estate, To see the good from ill; And binding Nature fast in fate, Left free the human will. What conscience dictates to be done, Or warns me not to do, This, teach... 
