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 Poetical Works of Alexander Pope - Page 249by Alexander Pope - 1869 - 485 pagesFull view - About this book
| Lindley Murray - 1812 - 378 pages
...lyre. OGILVIE. SECTION XV. The universal prayer. FATHER OF ALL! in ev'ry age, In ev'ry clime ador'd, By saint, by savage, and by sage, Jehovah, Jove, or...GREAT FIRST CAUSE, least understood, Who all my sense confin'd To know but this, that thou art good," And that myself am blind; Yet gave me in this dark... | |
| 1814 - 156 pages
...understood I Who all my sense confin'd To know but this — that thou art good, And that myself am blind ; 3 Yet gave me, in this dark estate, To see the good...binding nature fast in fate, Left free the human will :— i What conseience dictates to be done, Or warns me not to do, This teach me more than hell to... | |
| Lindley Murray - 1815 - 190 pages
...premised, is the conjecture of Dryden. Thou great First Cause, least understood! Who all my sense confin'd To know but this, that thou art good, And that myself am blind: Yet gave me in this dark estate, &c. " Confnsdst or didst confine :" " Qavat or didst give." What art thou, speak, that, on designs... | |
| Elizabeth Tomkins - 1817 - 276 pages
...UNIVERSAL PRAYER. BY POPE. FATHER of all I in every age, In every clime adored, By saint, by savage, ami by sage. Jehovah, Jove, or Lord. Thou great First...Who all my sense confined, To know but this, that tliou art good, And that myself am blind : Yet gave me, in this dark estate, To see the good from ill;... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1820 - 80 pages
...by sage, Jehovah, Jove, or Lord! Thou great First Cause, least understood: Who all my sense confin'd To know but this, that Thou art good, And that myself...binding nature fast in fate, Left free the human will. * It maybe proper to observe, that some passages in the preceding Essay, having been unjustly suspected... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1821 - 252 pages
...MARQUIS DE LALLY-TOLENDAL. UNIVERSAL FRAYER. ATHER of All ! — In ev'ry Age In ev' ry Clime ador'd By Saint , by Savage and by Sage , Jehovah, Jove,...First Cause , least understood , Who all my Sense confin'd To know but this , that Thou art Good , And that myself am blind ; ,Yet gave me , in this... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1821 - 86 pages
...hnote.. THE UNIVERSAL PRAYER. DEO OPTIMO MAXIMO. FATHER of ALL ! in every age, In ev'iy clhne ador'd, By saint by savage, and by sage, Jehovah, Jove, or...great First Cause, least understood, Who all my sense confin'd To know but this, that Thou art God, And that myself am blind : Yet gave me, in this dark... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1821 - 254 pages
...or Lord! ,',;•! ' f . a., Thou Great First Cause, least understood, 'ty Who all my Sense confin'd To know but this , that Thou art Good, And that myself am blind; Yet gave me , in this dark Esta te To see the Good from 111 ; 0 And binding Nature fast in Fate , Left free the Human Will. DE... | |
| Lindley Murray - 1822 - 312 pages
...sage, Jehovah, Jove, or Lord ! Thou GREAT FIRST CAUSE, least umlcrslooiS, Who all my sense confin'd To know but this, that thou art good, And that myself...me, in this dark estate, To see the good from ill j And binding nature fast m fate, Left free the human will. What, conscience dictates to be done, OP... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1822 - 370 pages
...passages from Homer, Hesiod, Pindar, Thou Great First Cause, least understood : Who all my Sense confin'd To know but this, that Thou art Good, And that myself...gave me, in this dark Estate, To see the Good from I11 ; And binding Nature fast in Fate, Left free the Human Will. NOTES. Sophocles, and especially Euripides,... | |
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