 | Steven N. Zwicker - 2004 - عدد الصفحات: 322
...After he first states the Deist argument about the sufficiency of natural religion, Dryden exclaims, Vain, wretched Creature, how art thou misled To think thy Wit these God-like notions bred! (64-5) Behind these lines is the story of the fall, where Eve was told by the serpent that she and... | |
 | John Dryden - 2002 - عدد الصفحات: 612
...relig1on. And would not be obliged to God for more. Vain, wretched creature, how art thou misled 65 To think thy wit these godlike notions bred! 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... | |
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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. 
