 | 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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What conscience dictates to be done, Or warns me not to do, This, teach me more than hell to shun, That, more than heaven pursue. 
