| Ethics - 1829 - 258 pagina’s
...sincere desire, Utter'd or uncxprest; The motion of a hidden fire, That trembles in the breast. Pray'r is the burden of a sigh, The falling of a tear, The...upward glancing of an eye, When none but God is near. Pray'r is the simplest form of speech, That infant lips can try : Pray'r, the sublimest strains that... | |
| 1829 - 442 pagina’s
...desire, Utter'd or unexpress'd ; The motion of a hidden fire, That trembles in the breast. 2 Prayer is the burden of a sigh, The falling of a tear; The...upward glancing of an eye, ^ When none but God is near 3 Prayer is tlie simplest form of speech That inftnt lips can try ; Prayer, the sublimest strains that... | |
| Robert Smith - 1829 - 432 pagina’s
...expressed; The motion of a hidden fire, That trembles in the breast. Prayer is the burden of a sigh, The upward glancing of an eye, When none but God is near. The falling of a tear; / Prayer is the simplest form of speech, That infant lips can try; Prayer the... | |
| Hannah More - 1830 - 204 pagina’s
...Uttered or unexprest ; The motion of a hidden flre That trembles in the breast. Prayer is the burthen of a sigh, The falling of a tear ; The upward glancing...strains that reach The Majesty on high. Prayer is the contrite sinner's voice, Returning from his ways ; While angels iu their songs rejoice. And cry, "... | |
| Episcopal Church - 1830 - 482 pagina’s
...Ltter'd or unexpress'd ; fsire The motion of R hidden fire, That tremblée in the breast. S Prayer is the burden of a sigh; The falling of a tear ; The...upward glancing of an eye, When none but God is near. 3 Prayer is the simplest form of That infant lips can try ; [speech P'ayer, the sublimes! «trains... | |
| Robert STORY (Minister of Roseneath.) - 1830 - 322 pagina’s
...Montgomery's Hymn, which we often read together, excited her liveliest sympathies. In the lines, " Prayer is the Christian's vital breath, The Christian's...watchword at the gates of death — He enters heaven by prayer ;" she seemed to feel a pecular interest, so vividly portraying, as they did, what her spirit... | |
| 1830 - 332 pagina’s
...Uttered or unexpreas'd, The motion of a hidden fire, That tremhles in the hreast. 2 Prayer is the' hurden of a sigh, The falling of a tear, The upward glancing of an eye, When none hut God is near. 3 Prayer is the simplest form of speech, That any lips can try ; Prayer the suhlimest... | |
| Short memorials - 1830 - 300 pagina’s
...unspeakable privilege that prayer is not confined to place or posture, as the hymn so sweetly says, " Prayer is the burden of a sigh, The falling of a tear ; The upward lifting of the eye, When none but God is near." MONTGOMERY. Though her means of subsistence were scarcely... | |
| John Adey - 1830 - 260 pagina’s
...sincere desire, Utter'd or unexpress'd; The motion of a hidden fire, That trembles in the breast. Prayer is the burden of a sigh, The falling of a tear; The uprais'd glancing of an eye, When none but God is near. Prayer is the simplest form of speech That... | |
| Lant Carpenter - 1831 - 458 pagina’s
...sincere desire, Utter'd, or unexpress'd; The motion of a hidden fire, That trembles in the breast. Prayer is the burden of a sigh, The falling of a tear, The...upward glancing of an eye, When none but God is near. 3 Prayer is the simplest form of speech, That infant lips can try ; Prayer, the sublimest strains that... | |
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