 | Lindley Murray - 1815 - 276 pagina’s
...awful length, And dangers little known, A stranger to superior streoglh, Man vainly trusts his own. But oars alone can ne'er prevail To reach the distant coast; The breath of heaven must swell the sail, Or all the toil is lost. COVPBK. SECTION XII. ODE TO PEACE. -•~Co>iE... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1816 - 328 pagina’s
...awful length,. And dangers little known, A stranger to superior strength, Man vainly trusts his own. But oars alone can ne'er prevail To reach the distant...heav'n must swell the sail, Or all the toil is lost.. COWEB SECTION XIF. . X • Ode to Peace. GOME, peace of mind, delightful guest ! Return, and make thy... | |
 | Elegant extracts - 1816 - 490 pagina’s
...awful length. And dangers little known, A stranger to superior strength, Man vainly trusts his own. But oars alone can ne'er prevail To reach the distant coast ; The breath of heaven must swell the sail, Or all the toil is lost. On observing some ffames <if little Kate recorded... | |
 | Charles Frederick Bennett - 1817 - 174 pagina’s
...length, " And dangers little known, " A stranger to superior strength, " Man vainly trusts his own ; " But oars alone can ne'er prevail " To reach the distant...must swell the sail, " Or all. the toil is lost.", The tide suited early on a fine morn, who " — • With her rosy steps' in th' eastern clime " Advancing,... | |
 | 1817 - 314 pagina’s
...length, And dangers little known, A stranger to superior strength, Man vainly trusts his own, But ours alone can ne'er prevail To reach the distant coast;...Heav'n must swell the sail, Or all the toil is lost. Cowptr. KAN WAS MADE TO MOURS : A DIRGE. WHEN chill November's surly blast Made fields and forests... | |
 | William Cowper - 1817 - 252 pagina’s
...awful length, And dangers little known, A stranger to superior strength, Man vaiuly trusts his own. But oars alone can ne'er prevail To reach the distant coast ; The hreath of heaven must swell the sail, Or all the toil is lost. THE MODERN PATRIOT. REBELLION is my... | |
 | Robert Adam - 1818 - 468 pagina’s
...length, And dangers little known, A stranger to superior strength, Man vainly trusts his own. But ours alone can ne'er prevail To reach the distant coast...swell the sail, Or all the toil is lost." COWPER. Mosheim remarks, in his account of the last century, that " the Socinians, who were dispersed through... | |
 | William Cowper - 1818 - 314 pagina’s
...known, A stranger to super iour strength, Man vainly trusts h,s own. VI. But oars alone can ne'r i- prevail, To reach the distant coast; The breath of...heav'n must swell the sail, Or all the toil is lost. 90S THE MODERN PATRIOT. I. REBELLION is my theme all day } I only wish 'twould come (As who knows but... | |
 | William Cowper - 1818 - 244 pagina’s
...awful length And dangers litlle known, A stranger to superior strength, Man vainly trusts his own. But oars alone can ne'er prevail, To reach the distant coast: The breath of Heaven must swell the sail, Or all the toil is lost. A COMPARISON. THE lapse of time and rivers is... | |
 | William Cowper - 1818 - 244 pagina’s
...awful length And dangers little known, A stranger 1o superior strength, Man vainly trusts his own. But oars alone can ne'er prevail, To reach the distant coast: The breath of Heaven must swell the sail, Or all the toil is lost. A COMPARISON. THE lapse of time and rivers is... | |
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Bound on a voyage of awful length And dangers little known, A stranger to superior strength, Man vainly trusts his own. But oars alone can ne'er prevail To reach the distant coast ; The breath of Heaven must swell the sail, Or all the toil is lost. 
