 | Epes Sargent - 1867 - 540 ページ
...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... | |
 | Modern culture - 1867 - 458 ページ
...has not failed to detect their kinship, however, when, in his noble " Ode to Duty," he says : — " Flowers laugh before thee on their beds, And fragrance...ancient heavens through Thee are fresh and strong. " Good, then, being the great end of all the established conditions of our life, evil is, and must... | |
 | Arthur Henfrey - 1867 - 502 ページ
...poets, has not failed to detect their kinship, however, when, in his noble "Ode to Duty," he says:— " Flowers laugh before thee on their beds, And fragrance...ancient heavens through Thee are fresh and strong." Good, then, being the great end of all the established conditions of our life, evil is, and must ever... | |
 | Caroline Matilda Kirkland - 1868 - 710 ページ
...feel the weight of chance 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...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 ページ
...feel the weight of chance 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...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 ページ
...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... | |
 | Epes Sargent - 1868 - 544 ページ
...thou dost weaV The Godhead's most benignant grace ! Nor know we anytning so fair As is the smile u,jon thy face: Flowers laugh before thee on their beds...ancient heavens through thee are fresh and strong. VII. To humbler functions, awful Power ! I call thee : I myself commend Unto thy guidance from this... | |
 | William Davis (B.A.) - 1869 - 200 ページ
...in me wrought, I supplicate for thy control ; But in the quietness of thought ; Me this unchartered freedom tires ; I feel the weight of chance desires...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 ;... | |
 | 1869 - 384 ページ
...to Duty has sung her praise in words which I trust are in the memories of most who hear me : — " Stern Lawgiver ! yet thou dost wear The Godhead's...the smile upon thy face. Flowers laugh before thee in their beds, And fragrance in thy footing treads :" yet, on the other hand, he recognises that what... | |
 | Afternoon lectures - 1869 - 378 ページ
...to Duty has sung her praise in words which I trust are in the memories of most who hear me : — " Stern Lawgiver ! yet thou dost wear The Godhead's...the smile upon thy face. Flowers laugh before thee in their beds, And fragrance in thy footing treads :" yet, on the other hand, he recognises that what... | |
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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... 
