On the Eternity of the Supreme Being: A Poetical Essay

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J. Bentham, 1750 - 13 頁
 

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第 3 頁 - Judgment, Heaven, Hell, Purity of heart, &c. or whatever else may be judged by the Vice-Chancellor, Master of Clare Hall, and Greek Professor to be most conducive to the honour of the Supreme Being and recommendation of Virtue.
第 3 頁 - Which three persons aforesaid shall give out a subject, which subject shall, for the first year be one or other of the perfections or attributes of the Supreme Being, and...
第 9 頁 - ... elements Shall war against themselves, and mutual rage, To make Perdition triumph; it shall come, When the capacious atmosphere above Shall in sulphureous thunders groan, and die, And vanish into void; the earth beneath Shall sever to the centre, and devour Th' enormous blaze of the destructive flames. Ye rocks, that mock the raving of the floods, And proudly frown upon th...
第 5 頁 - HAIL, wond'rous Being, who in pow'r supreme Exists from everlasting, whose great Name Deep in the human heart, and every atom The Air, the Earth or azure Main contains, In undecypher'd characters is wrote — INCOMPREHENSIBLE! — O what can words The weak interpreters of mortal thoughts, Or what can thoughts (tho...
第 13 頁 - Exerts all goodness, and transcends all praise.
第 3 頁 - Hall) and Greek ProfeJJor^ to be moß conducive to the Honour of the Supreme Being and Recommendation of Virtue. And they...
第 6 頁 - Eternal ; may he soar Where seraph, and where cherubin on high Resound th' unceasing plaudits, and with them In the grand chorus mix his feeble voice ? He may — if thou, who from the witless babe Ordainest honour, glory, strength and praise, .Uplift th' unpinion'd Muse, and deign t' assist, [Great Poet of the Universe, his song.
第 8 頁 - Nor leave behind ev'n Chaos; it shall come When all the armies of the elements Shall war against themselves, and mutual rage To make Perdition triumph; it shall come, When the capacious atmosphere above Shall in sulphureous...
第 8 頁 - This were a Sabbath worthy the Supreme! Perhaps enthron'd amidst a choicer few, Of Spirits inferior, he might greatly plan The two prime Pillars of the Universe, Creation and Redemption — and a while s 5 Pause - with the grand presentiments of glory.
第 10 頁 - Safe in their meek fubmiffion ; they the debt Of nature and of juftice too muft pay. Yet I muft weep for you, ye rival fair, Arno and Andalufia ; but for thee More largely and with filial tears muft weep* O Albion, O my country ! Thou muft joinj In vain diffever'd from the reft, muft join The terrors of th

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