 | English poetry - 1851 - 496 pages
...# * * Thus man by his own strength to heaven would soar: And would not be oblig'd to God for more. Vain wretched creature, how art thou misled To think...These truths are not the product of thy mind, But dropt from heaven, and of a nobler kind. Eeveal'd religion first inform'd thy sight, And reason saw... | |
 | English poetry - 1852 - 874 pages
...reward. Thus man by his own strength to Heaven would soar, And would not be oblig'd to God for more. Vain wretched creature, how art thou misled To think...These truths are not the product of thy mind, But dropt from Heaven, and of a nobler kind. Reveal'd religion first inform'd thy sight, And reason saw... | |
 | Oskar Ludwig Bernhard Wolff - English poetry - 1852 - 438 pages
...reward. Thus man by his own strength to heaven would soar, , And would not be oblig'd to God for more. Vain wretched creature, how art thou misled To think...bred! These truths are not the product of thy mind, :iut dropt from heaven, and of a nobler kind, ieveal'd religion first inform'd thy sight, And reason... | |
 | Kenelm Henry Digby - 1852 - 450 pages
...not be oblig'd to God for more. Vain, wretched creature, how art thou misled, To think thy wit those god-like notions bred ! These truths are not the product of thy mind, But dropt from heav'n, and of a nobler kind. Reveal'd religion first inform'd thy sight, And reason saw... | |
 | John Dryden - 1855 - 350 pages
...reward. Thus man by his own strength to heaven wouloTsoar, And would not be obliged to God for more. Vain, wretched creature, how art thou misled, To think...light. Hence all thy natural worship takes the source : ro 'Tis revelation what thou think'st discourse. Else how com'st thou to see these truths so clear,... | |
 | John Seely Hart - Readers - 1857 - 394 pages
...reward. Thus man by his own strength to heaven would soar. And would not be obliged to God for more. Vain, wretched creature, how art thou misled, To think...These truths are not the product of thy mind, But dropped from Heaven, and of a nobler kind. Revealed religion first informed thy sight, And Reason saw... | |
 | Aubrey Thomas De Vere - 1858 - 298 pages
...Zatci.] Thus man by his own strength to heaven would soar, And would not be oblig'd to God for more. Vain wretched creature, how art thou misled, To think...These truths are not the product of thy mind, But dropt from Heaven, and of a nobler kind. Reveal'd religion first inform'd thy sight, And reason saw... | |
 | John Dryden - 1859 - 480 pages
...for more. Vain, wretehed ereature, how art thou misled, To think thy wit these godlike notions hred ' These truths are not the product of thy mind, But dropp'd from Heaven, and of a nohler kuid Reveal'd religion first infurm'd thy sight, And Reason saw not, till Faith sprung the light.... | |
 | Émile Saisset - Religion - 1863 - 292 pages
...proposition, and to saythat all schemes of natural religion are but wretched sects of Christianity. Reveal'd religion first inform'd thy sight, And Reason saw not till Faith sprung the light. Once more, I must repeat my hope and convicviction that M. Saisset would agree with these sentiments.... | |
 | Émile Edmond Saisset - 1863 - 288 pages
...proposition, and to saythat all schemes of natural religion are but wretched sects of Christianity. Reveal'd religion first inform'd thy sight, And Reason saw not till Faith sprung the light. Once more, I must repeat my hope and convicviction that M. Saisset would agree with these sentiments.... | |
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Vain, wretched creature, how art thou misled To think thy wit these godlike notions bred! These truths are not the product of thy mind, But dropp'd from heaven, and of a nobler kind. 
