 | William Stebbing - English poetry - 1913 - 424 pages
...fancies that : 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...mind, But dropp'd from Heaven, and of a nobler kind. Reveal' d Religion first inform'd thy sight, And Reason saw not, till Faith sprung the light. Hence... | |
 | Lucius Hudson Holt - English poetry - 1915 - 952 pages
...heaven would soar, „. . . i ti-ii "* reveal a And would not be oblig a to Religion. God for more. :5 70 'T is revelation what thou think'st discourse. Else, how eoin'st thou to see these truths so clear,... | |
 | Mabel Dodge Holmes - 1921 - 202 pages
...Laici": "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."1 Pope, concluding the passage that reproves man for assuming... | |
 | Caroline Miles Hill - Religious poetry - 1923 - 890 pages
...to Heaven would soar And would not be obliged to God for more. Vain, wretched creature, how thou art misled, To think thy wit these God-like notions bred...mind, But dropp'd from heaven, and of a nobler kind. Revealed religion first informed thy sight, And reason saw not till faith sprung the light. Hence all... | |
 | Caroline Miles Hill - Religious poetry, English - 1928 - 888 pages
...to Heaven would soar And would not be obliged to God for more. Vain, wretched creature, how thou art misled, To think thy wit these God-like notions bred...mind, But dropp'd from heaven, and of a nobler kind. Revealed religion first informed thy sight, And reason saw not till faith sprung the light. Hence all... | |
 | Peter James Stanlis - Natural law - 1958 - 292 pages
...deists: 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...thy sight, And Reason saw not, till Faith sprung the light.1" As it applies to human reason, a believing Christian such as Dryden is frequently a skeptic,... | |
 | Detlev Gohrbandt - Books and reading - 1998 - 320 pages
...Laici« (1682) eine vorbeugende Schließung durch elliptische Emphase und antithetische correctio: 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. Reveai d Religion first informed thy sight, And Reason saw... | |
 | Gabriel Moran - Religion - 2002 - 290 pages
...truth of religion from within theit own minds: These truths are not the product of thy Mind, But dropr from Heaven, and of a Nobler Kind. Reveald religion...Sight And Reason saw not till Faith sprung the Light. 80 Here the concepr of revealed religion has congealed into something "dropr trom heaven." Herberr's... | |
 | Robert E. Brown - Bible - 2002 - 328 pages
...inclination to connect sacred history with profane knowledge. 5 Sacred History and the "History" of Religions Vain, wretched Creature, how art thou misled To think thy Wit these God-like Notions bredl These Truths are not the product of thy Mind, But dropt from Heaven, and of a Nobler kind. 1... | |
 | John Dryden - English literature - 2003 - 1024 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 kmd. Revealed religion first informed thy sight, And reason saw... | |
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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. 
