 What conscience dictates to be done, Or warns me not to do, This teach me more than hell to shun, That, more than heav'n pursue. What blessings Thy free bounty gives, Let me not cast away; For God is paid when man receives, To enjoy is to obey.  The Works of Alexander Pope - Page 163by Alexander Pope - 1822Full view - About this book
 | Hymns, English - 1814 - 158 pages
...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 me more than hell to shoo, That, more than heav'n pursue : 5 What blessings thy free bounty gives, Let me not cast away... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1815 - 276 pages
...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 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 - Readers - 1815 - 262 pages
...fee the good. from ill ; And binding nature faft in fate, Left free the human will. What confcience dictates to be done, Or warns me not to do, This teach me more than hell to fhun, That more than heaven purfue. What bleffings. thy free bounty gives Let me not caft away ; For... | |
 | Lindley Murray - English language - 1816 - 328 pages
...What concienee dictates to be done, Or warns me not to do, This teach me more than hell to slum, , That more than heav'n pursue. What blessings thy free bounty gives Let me not cast away ; Y 'Grant I (nay ever at 'the morrtfng ray,* Open with.pray'r tlie consecrated day ; Tune tliy great... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - American poetry - 1925 - 424 pages
...teach me more than hell to shun, That, more than heaven pursue. What blessings thy free bounty give* Let me not cast away ; For God is paid when man receives, To enjoy is to obey. Yet not to earth's contracted span Thy goodness let me bound, Or think thee Lord... | |
 | 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...This, teach me more than hell to shun, That, more than heaven pursue." It cannot be doubted, then, that Aquinas fully understands the process by which the... | |
 | George Carver - American literature - 1926 - 504 pages
...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, Or warns me not to do, This, teach me more than hell to shun, 15 That more than heaven pursue. What blessings thy free bounty gives, Let me not cast away ; For God... | |
 | Alexander Pope - English poetry - 1926 - 310 pages
...blind; Yet gave me, in this dark Estate, 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 me more than Hell to shun, 15 That, more than Heav'n pursue. What Blessings Thy free Bounty gives, Let me not cast away ; For... | |
 | 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
...dark estate, To see the good from ill; 10 And binding Nature fast in Fate, Left free the human Will. Xc gJ T!\ Sx 㟰 gHf t :L 3 c S%^ m A ș X v < _ 9~ L \ C} D / DKG .Z 15 That more than Heav'n pursue. What blessings thy free bounty gives Let me not cast away; For God... | |
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