 | Samuel Willoughby Duffield - 1886 - 706 pagina’s
...of which the present first line is from the fifth. The concluding quatrain is the famous stanza : " Not to my wish, but to my want. Do thou thy gifts apply : Unask'd, what good thou knowcst, grant ; What ill, tho1 ask'd, deny." The rare little book which contains this piece is possessed,... | |
 | John Hunter - 1889 - 712 pagina’s
...subdued, Too oft, with stubborn will, We blindly shun the latent good, And grasp the specious ill ; 4. Not to my wish, but to my want, Do thou thy gifts supply ; The good unasked in mercy grant ; The ill, though asked, deny. James Merriek, 1763. 386. The... | |
 | 1894 - 430 pagina’s
...is good, though I fail to ask it : deny me what is evil, though I ask it : give me Thy Holy Spirit. Not to my wish, but to my want, Do Thou Thy gifts apply ; The good unasked in mercy grant, The ill, though asked, deny. " When ye were the senants of sin,... | |
 | Harvard University - 1895 - 496 pagina’s
...subdued, Since oft my stubborn will Preposterous shuns the latent good, And grasps the specious ill, Not to my wish, but to my want, Do thou thy gifts apply ; Unasked, what good thou knowest grant, What ill, though asked, deny. JAMES MERRICK, 1720-1769. ST.... | |
 | Harvard University - 1896 - 500 pagina’s
...dwell, Thy love my footsteps guide ; That love shall vainer loves expel, That fear all fears beside. Not to my wish, but to my want, Do thou thy gifts apply ; Unasked, what good thou knowest grant, What ill, though asked, deny. ST. STEPHEN. CM WILLIAM JONES,... | |
 | 1898 - 554 pagina’s
...dwell, Thy love my footsteps guide ; That love shall vainer loves expel, That fear all fears beside. Not to my wish, but to my want, Do thou thy gifts apply ; Unasked, what good thou knowest grant, What ill, though asked, deny. JAMES MBRRICK, 1730-1769. M>... | |
 | Robert Neil Grant - 1899 - 316 pagina’s
...unforeseen trials, cherish a firm and abiding belief in the unerring ordinations of heaven, saying : " Not to my wish, but to my want, Do Thou Thy gifts supply ; Unasked, what good thou knowest, grant ; What ill, though asked, deny." But there is another... | |
 | John Hunter - 1904 - 920 pagina’s
...subdued, Too oft, with stubborn will, We blindly shun the latent good, And grasp the specious ill ; 4. Not to my wish, but to my want, Do thou thy gifts supply ; The good unasked in mercy grant ; The ill, though asked, deny. James Merrich, 1763. 524. The... | |
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 | Iolo Aneurin Williams - 1923 - 524 pagina’s
...subdu'd, Since oft my stubborn will, Preposterous, shuns the latent good, And grasps the specious ill ; Not to my wish, but to my want, Do Thou Thy gifts...Thou knowest, grant ; What ill, though ask'd, deny. An Epitaph (From the Latin of Dr. John Jortin) Thee, Paeta, Death's relentless hand Cut off in earliest... | |
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Not to my wish, but to my want, Do thou thy gifts apply .. Unask'd, what good thou knowest, grant ; What ill, though ask'd, deny. 
