 Stern Lawgiver! yet thou dost wear The Godhead's most benignant grace; Nor know we anything so fair As is the smile upon thy face: Flowers laugh before thee on their beds And fragrance in thy footing treads; Thou dost preserve the stars from wrong; And...  The Public School Speaker - Página 385de Francis Warre Cornish - 1900 - 570 páginasVisualização completa - Sobre este livro
 | S S. Pugh - 1867 - 244 páginas
...giving grace even to its sternest aspects, has been finely caught by one of our poets : — ' ' Stern lawgiver ! yet thou dost wear The Godhead's most benignant...ancient heavens through thee are fresh and strong." One of the finest examples in early scriptural history of this fidelity to duty — fidelity embracing... | |
 | Epes Sargent - 1867 - 540 páginas
...Stern Lawgiver ! yet thou dost wear The Godhead's most benignant grace ; Nor know we any thing so fanAs is the smile upon thy face ; Flowers laugh before...ancient heavens, through thee, are fresh and strong. 6. DEATH OF THE YOUNG AND FAIR. — Anonymous. She died in beauty, like a rose18'2 blown from its parent... | |
 | Caroline Matilda Kirkland - 1868 - 710 páginas
...desires : My hopes no more must change their name ; I long for a repose that ever is the same. Stern law-giver ! yet thou dost wear The godhead's most...I myself commend Unto thy guidance from this hour ; Oh, let my weakness have an end ! Give unto me, made lowly, wise, The spirit of self-sacrifice ;... | |
 | Caroline Matilda Kirkland - 1868 - 712 páginas
...desires : My hopes no more must change their name ; I long for a repose that ever is the same. Stern law-giver ! yet thou dost wear The godhead's most...fresh and strong. To humbler functions, awful Power 1 I call thee ; I myself commend Unto thy guidance from this hour ; Oh, let my weakness have an end... | |
 | Richard Hooker - 1868 - 200 páginas
...Hooker, in the Ecclesiastical Polity, has gone beyond this. Compare Wordsworth, ' Ode to Duty:' . Ster n Law-giver ! yet thou dost wear The Godhead's most...ancient heavens, through Thee are fresh and strong.' GLOSSARY. Ability, ii. 3 (in the early editions spelt ' habilitie' and ' ability,' sometimes in the... | |
 | William Davis (B.A.) - 1869 - 200 páginas
...desires : My hopes no more must change their name, I long for a repose which ever is the same. Stern lawgiver ! yet thou dost wear The Godhead's most benignant...I myself commend Unto thy guidance from this hour ; Oh ! let my weakness have an end ! Give unto me, made lowly wise, The spirit of self-sacrifice ;... | |
 | William [poetical works] Wordsworth - 1870 - 424 páginas
...same. Stern Lawgiver ! yet thou dost wear The Godhead's most benignant grace ; Nor know we any thing so fair As is the smile upon thy face : Flowers laugh...I myself commend Unto thy guidance from this hour ; Oh, let my weakness have an end ! Give unto me, made lowly wise, The spirit of self-sacrifice ; The... | |
 | Shadworth Hollway Hodgson - 1870 - 590 páginas
...addresses : " Stem Lawgiver ! yet thou dost wear The Godhead's most benignant grace ; Nor know we any thing so fair As is the smile upon thy face ; •• Flowers...ancient heavens, through Thee, are fresh and strong." Here the order and beauty of the universe are attributed to the obedience which it pays to the commands... | |
 | Epes Sargent - 1870 - 538 páginas
...same. VI. Stern Lawgiver ! yet thou dost wear The Godhead's most benignant grace I Nor know we anytning so fair As is the smile upon thy face : Flowers laugh...ancient heavens through thee are fresh and strong. vir. To humbler functions, awful Power ! I call thee : I myself commend Unto thy guidance from this... | |
 | Shadworth Hollway Hodgson - 1870 - 588 páginas
...: " Stern Lawgiver ! yet thou dost wear The Godhead's most benignant grace ; Nor know we any thing so fair As is the smile upon thy face ; Flowers laugh...ancient heavens, through Thee, are fresh and strong." Here the order and beauty of the universe are attributed to the obedience which it pays to the commands... | |
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