 | John Dryden - 1874 - 740 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...light. Hence all thy natural worship takes the source : ro 'Tis revelation what thou think'st discourse. Else how com'st thou to sec these truths so clear,... | |
 | John Dryden - 1874 - 376 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 thy wit these god-like notions bred ! 65 [These truths are not the product of thy mind, 'But dropped from Heaven, and of a nobler kind.... | |
 | John Dryden - 1874 - 388 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 thy wit these god-like notions bred ! 65 These truths are not the product of thy mind, But dropped from Heaven, and of a nobler kind. Revealed... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - Quotations, English - 1875 - 794 pages
...ARBUTHNOT. Thus man by his own strength to heav'n would soar, And would not be obliged to God for more : Vain, wretched creature ! how art thou misled, To...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... | |
 | Rossiter Johnson - English poetry - 1876 - 840 pages
...reward. Thus man by hisown strength to Heaven would soar, And would not be oblig'd to God for more. nor on the virtue thought Of that life-giving plant,...well us'd had been the pledge Of immortality. So litt dropt from Heaven, and of a nobler kind Reveal'd religion first inform'd thy sight, And reason saw... | |
 | Robert Aitkin Bertram - 1877 - 766 pages
...inspired. THUS man by his own strength to heaven would soar. And would not be obliged to God for more : now So much, and most of all, how we know them. It...hearU In their own lights and darknesses, not we. ßa dropt from heaven, and of a nobler kind : Reveal'd religion first inform'd thy sight, And Reason saw... | |
 | John Dryden - 1878 - 368 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 thy wit these god-like notions bred ! 65 These truths are not the product of thy mind, But dropped from Heaven, and of a nobler kind. Revealed... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - Quotations, English - 1878 - 788 pages
...would not be obliged to God for more : Vain, wretched creature ! how art thou misled, To think ihy wit these godlike notions bred ! 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, Walter Scott - English literature - 1885 - 482 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 thy wit these god-like notions bred ! 65 These truths are not the product of thy mind, But dropt from heaven, and of a nobler kind. Revealed... | |
 | Charles John Smith - English language - 1890 - 802 pages
...men and their natural notions of God gave them reasonable ground to expect and hope for." — CLARKE. "Vain, wretched creature, how art thou misled, To think thy wit these godlike notions bred I These truths are not the product of thy mini], But dropt from Heaven, and of a nobler kind." DRVDES.... | |
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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. 
