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 - Page 54by Alexander Pope - 1828Full view - About this book
 | John Bell - English poetry - 1796 - 524 pages
...sage, Jehovah, Jovet or Lord ! Thou Great First Cause, least understood, j Who all my sense confin'd To know but this, That thou art Good, And that myself...me, in this dark estate, To see the good from ill ; IP And binding Nature fast in Fate, Left free the human will. What Conscience dictates to be done,... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1798 - 140 pages
...op.t. max. of ALL! in ev'ry age, In ev'ry clime ador'd, By saint, by savage, and by 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, Yet gave me in this dark estate, To see the good from... | |
 | English poetry - 1800 - 322 pages
...max. FATHER of all! in ev'ry age, In ev'ry clime ador'd, By saint, by savage, and by 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 am blind. Yet gave me in this dark estate,... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1804 - 236 pages
...sage, . Jehovah, Jove, or Lord ! Thou Great First Cause, least understood, S Who all my sense confin'd To know but this, that thou art Good, And that myself...gave me in this dark estate, To see the good from ill ; 10 And binding Nature fast in Fate, Left free the human will, What conscience dictates to be done,... | |
 | E. Tomkins - Didactic poetry, English - 1804 - 416 pages
...understood \Vlin all my sense confm'd To know hut this, that thou art good, And that myself am hlind. Yet gave me, in this dark estate, To see the good from ill ; And, hinding-nature fast in fate, Left free the human will. What conscience dictates tg he done. Or warns... | |
 | Charles Brockden Brown - American literature - 1805 - 500 pages
...contradicts this modest avowal of ignorance, and affirms thus : ' Yet gave me, in tliii dart ettaie, To see the good from ill ; And, binding nature fast in fate, Left free the human will. That part of mankind, who deny the power of ail men to distinguish, in this absolute way, evil from... | |
 | E Tomkins - 1806 - 278 pages
...savage, and by sage, Thou great first cause, least understood; Who all my sense confin'd To know hat this, that thou art good. And that myself am blind....in this dark estate. To see the good from ill; And, hinding nature fast in fate, Left free the human will. What conscience dictates to be done, Or warns... | |
 | English poetry - 1806 - 408 pages
...AX. FATHER of All ! in ev'ry age, In ev'ry clime ador'd, By Saint, by Savage, and by 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 am blind ; Tet gave me in this dark... | |
 | Albin-Joseph-Ulpien Hennet - English poetry - 1806 - 456 pages
...PRAYER. FATHER of all, in every age, In ev'ryclime, ador'd, By saint, by savage, and by sage, Jehovah, Jove, or Lord ! Thou, great first cause, least understood, "Who all my sense confin'd To knew but this, that thou art good, And that myself am blind. Yet, gaye me, in this dark... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1807 - 474 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...in this dark estate, To see the good from ill ; And hinding nature fast in fate, Left free the human will. What conscience dictates to be done, Or warns... | |
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