 | 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... | |
 | John Carey - English language - 1816 - 300 pages
...this, that thou art good, And that myself am blind j Yet gave me, in this dark estate, To see the geod from ill, And, binding nature fast in fate, Left free the human will How sweet to stray adown the vale, While Cynthia sheds her radiance round ! How sweet to hear the bird... | |
 | Elizabeth Tomkins - English poetry - 1817 - 276 pages
...this, that tliou 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...This, teach me more than hell to shun, That, more than heaven pursue. What blessings thy free bounty gives. Let me not cast away ; For God is paid when man... | |
 | Lindley Murray - Readers - 1817 - 290 pages
...Thou art good, And that myself am blind ; Yet give me, in this dark (state, To see the good from il) ; And binding nature fast in fate, Left free the human...conscience dictates to be done, Or warns me not to do, This trach me more than hell l That more than faeav'o pursue. What blessings thy free bounty gires, Let... | |
 | English poetry - 1817 - 314 pages
...blind: To see the good from ill; And, binding nature fast in fate, Yet gave me, in this dark estate, Left free the human will. What conscience dictates...warns me not to do, This teach me more than Hell to shuiij That more than Heaven pursue. Let me not cast away; For God is paid when man receives; What... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - American poetry - 1925 - 424 pages
...am blind ; Yet gave me, in this dark estate, To see the good from ill ; And, binding nature fast ir fate, Left free the human will : What conscience dictates...This, 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... | |
 | Alexander Pope - English poetry - 1926 - 310 pages
...confin'd To know but this, that Thou art Good, And that myself am blind; Yet gave me, in this dark Estate, And, binding Nature fast in Fate, Left free the Human...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... | |
 | George Carver - American literature - 1926 - 504 pages
...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...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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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... | |
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Yet gave me, in this dark estate, To see the good from ill; And, binding nature fast in fate, Left free the human will. 
