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
| Lindley Murray - 1815 - 276 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...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... | |
| Elizabeth Tomkins - English poetry - 1817 - 276 pages
...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...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... | |
| 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... | |
| Lindley Murray - Readers - 1817 - 290 pages
...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 will; What...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... | |
| Rufus W. Adams - Children's literature - 1818 - 322 pages
...estate, To know the good from ill ; And hinding nature fast in fate., Loft free Ibe human will j \Yhat conscience dictates to be done, Or warns me not to do, This teach me more than hel! to slum, That mure than heaven pursue. What blessings tby free bounty gives/ Let me not cast away;... | |
| Joseph Butler, Samuel Hallifax - Analogy (Religion) - 1819 - 256 pages
...Universal Prayer, though perhaps he may have expressed it rather too strongly, where he say», C " What conscience dictates to be done, " Or warns me not to do, " This teach me MORE ru IN Hell to shun, " That MOBE TIIA v Heaven pursue." The reader will observe, that this way of treating... | |
| Joseph Butler - Analogy (Religion) - 1820 - 264 pages
...his Universal Prayer, though perhaps he may have expressed it rather too stronglv, where he says, C " What conscience dictates to be done, " Or warns me...teach me MORE THAN Hell to shun, " That MORE THAN Heaven pursue." The reader will observe, that this way of treating the subject of morals by an appeal... | |
| Alexander Pope - Human beings - 1820 - 80 pages
...model the Lord's prayer, which of all others best deserves the title prefixed to his paraphrase. 6* What conscience dictates to be done, Or warns me not...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... | |
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