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; T The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope - Page 32by Alexander Pope - 1807 - 408 pagesFull view - About this book
| T. Bowen - 1799 - 76 pages
...good from illj And binding Nature faft in Fate, Left free the human will. What Confcience diftates to be done, Or warns me not to do, This teach me more than hell to fhun. That, more than heav'n purfue. What blcffings thy free bounty gives, Let me not call away ; For... | |
| English poetry - 1800 - 322 pages
...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...not cast away; For GOD is paid when man receives, T' enjoy is to obey. Yet not to earth's contracted span Thy goodness let me bound, Or think thee Lord... | |
| W. M. - Children - 1801 - 356 pages
...good frora^ill j • ' And, binding Nature faft in Fate, Left free the human will. What Ccnfcience dictates to be done, Or warns me not to do, This teach me more than hell to Hum, That more than heaven purfue. What Mefiings thy free bounty gives, Let me not caft away, For God... | |
| Hull Holy Trinity - 1803 - 72 pages
...fee the good from ill ;" And binding Nature faft in Fate, Left free the human will. What conference dictates to be done, Or warns me not to do, This teach me more than hell to fhun, That more than heav'n purfue. What bleflings thy free bounty gives Let me not caft away ; ' For... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1804 - 236 pages
...And that myself am blind : Yet 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...warns me not to do, This teach me more than hell to shunK 15 That more than heav'n pursue. f What blessings thy free bounty gives Let me not cast away... | |
| Joseph Butler - 1804 - 462 pages
...his Universal Prayer, though, perhaps, he may have expressed it rather too strongly, where he says, " What conscience dictates to be done, " Or warns me...teach me more than hell to shun, " That more than heaven pursue." B, The raider will observe, that this way of treating the subject of morals, by an... | |
| E. Tomkins - 1804 - 416 pages
...from ill ; And, hinding-nature fast in fate, Left free the human will. What conscience dictates tg he done. Or warns me not to do, This, teach me more than hell to shun, That more than heaven pursue. What hlessings thy free hounty gives, Let me not cast away ; For God is paid when man... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1804 - 496 pages
...fee the Good from 111 ; And, binding Nature fad in Fate, Left free the Human Will: What Conference dictates to be done, Or warns me not to do, This, teach me more than Hell to ihun, That, more than, Heaven puifue. What Bleffings thy free Bounty gives, Let me not cart away ;... | |
| Charles Brockden Brown - American literature - 1805 - 500 pages
...is certainly irreconcileable with the spirit and obligations of revealed religion. What consciencc dictates to be done, Or warns me not to do, 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 it paid when man... | |
| Elegant extracts - 1805 - 1054 pages
...(ee tUe good from ill ; And, binding nature i'aft 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 fliun, That more than heav'n purfue. What blemngs thy free bounty give* Let me not call away; For God... | |
| |