 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 British Poets - Page 851866Full view - About this book
 | Lindley Murray - 1828 - 268 pages
...great First Cause, least understood ! And that myself am blind : Yet gave me in this dark estate, &c. Who all my sense confin'd To know but this, that thou art good, What art thou, speak, that, on designs unknown, While others sleep, thus range the camp alone ? 1.... | |
 | Lindley Murray, Jeremiah Goodrich - 1829 - 318 pages
...ev'ry age, In ev'ry clime, ador'd, By saint, by savage, and bv sagf>, Jehovah, Jove, or Lord f • 2? Thou GREAT FIRST CAUSE, least understood, Who all my sense confin'd To know but this, that Thou art gooa, And that myself am blind ; 3. Yet gave me, in this dark estate. To see the good from ill ; And... | |
 | Josiah Pratt - 1829 - 536 pages
...and worlds above, The Universal Lord ! * 2 Thou, Great First Cause ! least understood, Hast all our sense confin'd To know but this, that Thou art good, And that ourselves are blind. '266 HYMNS. 3 What conscience dictates to be done, Or warns us not to do, This,... | |
 | 1918 - 2062 pages
...Addison [1672-1719] UNIVERSAL PRAYER DEO. OPT. MAX. FATHER of all! in every age, In every clime adored, eling down to Heaven's Eternal King, The saint, the...the husband prays: Hope "springs exulting on triumph confined To know but this, that Thou art good, And that myself am blind ; Yet gave me, in this dark... | |
 | Charles H. Sylvester - 1922 - 538 pages
...civilization. THE UNIVERSAL PRAYER By ALEXANDER POPE FATHER of all! in every age, In every clime adored, By saint, by savage, and by sage, Jehovah, Jove, or...Great First Cause, least understood: Who all my sense confined To know but this, that Thou art good, And that myself am blind; And binding nature fast in... | |
 | George R. Stewart - 1922 - 138 pages
...arose a most common variation by insertion of rhymes at the ends of the first and third half-lines:' Thou Great First Cause, least understood: Who all my Sense confin'd To know but this, that Thou are Good, And that myself am blind. — POPE — Universal Prayer. In contrast to the usage of internal... | |
 | Stephen Coleridge - 1923 - 162 pages
...emotion than anything else that he wrote : — " Father of all ! in every age, In every clime, adored By Saint, by savage, and by sage, Jehovah, Jove, or...Great First Cause, least understood, Who all my sense confined, To know but this, that thou art good, And that myself am blind ; Yet gave me in this dark... | |
 | Caroline Miles Hill - 1923 - 888 pages
...height I fell. THE UNIVERSAL PRAYER ALEXANDER POPE Father of all ! In every age, In every clime adored, By saint, by savage, and by sage, Jehovah, Jove, or...Great First Cause, least understood, Who all my sense confined To know but this, that thou art good, And that myself am blind ! Yet gave me, in this dark... | |
 | Henry Van Dyke, Hardin Craig, Asa Don Dickinson - 1922 - 1920 pages
...or Ixird ! The Universal Prayer Thou Great First Cause, least understood, Who all my sense confined To know but this, that thou art good, And that myself am blind: 8 Yet gave me, in this dark estate, To see the good from ill ; And binding Nature fast in Fate, Left... | |
 | Caroline Miles Hill - 1923 - 890 pages
...height I fell. THE UNIVERSAL PRAYER ALEXANDER POPE Father of all ! In every age, In every clime adored, By saint, by savage, and by sage, Jehovah, Jove, or Lord! Thou First great Cause, least understood, Who all my sense confined To know but this, that thou art good,... | |
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