 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, To enjoy is to obey.  The Works of Alexander Pope - Σελίδα 165των Alexander Pope - 1822Πλήρης προβολή - Σχετικά με αυτό το βιβλίο
 | Alexander Pope - 1963 - 884 σελίδες
...What Conscience dictates to be done, Or warns me not to doe, 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 God is pay'd when Man receives, T' enjoy, is to obey. 20 Yet not to Earth's contracted Span, Thy Goodness... | |
 | Edith P. Hazen - 1992 - 1172 σελίδες
...in every age, In every clime adored, By saint, by savage, and by sage, Jehovah, Jove, or Lord! 127 The very faculties of eyes and ears. Yet I, A dull and muddy-mettled rascal, peak Like John- To enjoy is to obey. 128 If I am right, thy grace impart Still in the right to stay; If I am wrong,... | |
 | James Bonar - 2002 - 320 σελίδες
...not negative merely, but, like Pope's Conscience in the Universal Prayer ( 1 738), faces both ways : "What Conscience dictates to be done, Or warns me not to do." Bacon (Advancement of Learning, Book ix, p. 370, Bohn's edition) thinks that the "light of nature"... | |
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