 | Kristina Straub - 1987 - 260 pages
...secular task is to choose the least vain form of behavior. The religious task is more mysterious: "Still raise for Good the supplicating Voice, / But leave to Heav'n the Measure and the Choice" ( VHW 351-52). The supplicator may only be able to grope, but even this fumbling and uncertain activity... | |
 | Marshall Brown - 1991 - 516 pages
..."Enquirer, cease" (line 349), whereas Goldsmith becomes an inquirer at the end. Johnson says, Still raise for good the supplicating voice, But leave to heav'n the measure and the choice Implore his aid, in his decisions rest, Secure whate'er he gives, he gives the best. (lines 351-56)... | |
 | Patrick Deane - 1994 - 270 pages
...supplicating Voice," but the point is made that finally prayers and words are insufficient: we must "leave to Heav'n the Measure and the Choice. / Safe...Eyes discern afar / The secret Ambush of a specious Pray'r" (92). In Johnson, as in Pope and Swift, both the motive and the aim of writing are explicitly... | |
 | Carl R. Woodring, James Shapiro - 1995 - 936 pages
...supplicating voice, But leave to Heaven the measure and the choice, Safe in His power, whose eyes discem afar The secret ambush of a specious prayer. Implore His aid, in His decisions rest, Secure, whate'er He gives. He gives the best. Yet when the sense of sacred presence... | |
 | Greg Clingham - 1997 - 290 pages
...Skies? Enquirer, cease, Petitions yet remain, Which Heav'n may hear, nor deem Religion vain. Still raise for Good the supplicating Voice, But leave to...Eyes discern afar The secret Ambush of a specious Pray'r. The antidote for vain human wishes is non-vain spiritual wishes; the antidote for an unreliable... | |
 | Oliver Kast - 2007 - 105 pages
...damit den didaktischen Appell zur Besserung in den theologischen Bereich (vgl. Seeber 204): "Still raise for good the supplicating voice,/ But leave to heav'n the measure and the choice;"32 Auch in Macbeth kommt das Vanitas-Thema, wie oben im speziellen Zusammenhang bereits erwähnt,... | |
 | James Boswell - 2008 - 1024 pages
...skies? Enthusiast, cease; petitions yet remain, Which heav'n may hear, nor deem religion vain. Still raise for good the supplicating voice, But leave to heav'n the measure and the choice. Safe in his hand, whose eye discerns afar The secret ambush of a specious pray'r; Implore his aid, in his decisions... | |
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Implore His aid, in His decisions rest, Secure, whate'er He gives, He gives the best. Yet when the sense of sacred presence fires, And strong devotion to the skies aspires, Pour forth thy fervours for a healthful mind, Obedient passions, and a will... 
