 | Maxwell Pierson Gaddis - 1857 - 564 pagina’s
...Tin. n, 15. Till I come give attendance to reading, to exhortation, to doctrine. — 1 TIM. Iv, 13. •'Welcome pure thoughts, welcome ye silent groves,...these courts, my soul most dearly loves ; Now, the winged people of the sky shall sing My anthems." IN the fall of 1825 Rev. George Gatch was succeeded... | |
 | Aubrey Thomas De Vere - 1858 - 298 pagina’s
...all in superlatives : Yet I more freely would these gifts resign Than ever fortune would have made them mine ; And hold one minute of this holy leisure...the wing'd people of the sky shall sing My cheerful authems to the gladsome spring ; A prayer-book now shall be my looking-glass, In which I will adore... | |
 | Izaak Walton, Charles Cotton - 1859 - 340 pagina’s
...all in superlatives — Yet I more freely would these gifts resign, Than ever Fortune would have made them mine ; And hold one minute of this holy leisure Beyond the riches of this empty pleasure ! * An angel is a piece of coin, value ten shillings. The words to vie angels, are a periphrasis, and... | |
 | 1869 - 646 pagina’s
...and peace." Well might Wotton repeat his own verses here by the river side : Welcome pure thought*, welcome ye silent groves, These guests, these courts my soul most dearly lores. Now tie wing'd people of the sky shall sing My cheerful anthems to the gladsome spring. Years... | |
 | George Gilfillan - 1860 - 396 pagina’s
...made them mine ; And hold one minute of this holy leisure Beyond the riches of this empty pleasure. 4 Welcome, pure thoughts ! welcome, ye silent groves...loves. Now the wing'd people of the sky shall sing 1 'Angela:' a species of coin. My cheerful anthems to the gladsome spring; A prayer-book now shall... | |
 | George Gilfillan - 1860 - 392 pagina’s
...all in superlatives : Yet I more freely would these gifts resign, Than ever fortune would have made them mine; And hold one minute of this holy leisure Beyond the riches of this empty pleasure. 4 Welcome, pure thoughts ! welcome, ye silent groves ! These guests, these courts, my soul most dearly... | |
 | Mrs. Catharine Harbeson (Waterman) Esling - 1861 - 280 pagina’s
...which seem to imagine this tree is provided as a protection for their weakness. ASYLUM. PROTECTION. Welcome, pure thoughts; welcome, ye silent groves; These guests, these courts, my soul most dearly laves. Now the wing'd people of the sky shall sing My cheerful anthems to the gladsome spring: A prayer-book... | |
 | Robert Eldridge Aris Willmott - 1862 - 418 pagina’s
...all in Superlatives ; Yet I more freely would these gifts resign, Than ever Fortune would have made them mine ; And hold one minute of this holy leisure...sing My cheerful anthems to the gladsome Spring ; A Pray'r-Book now shall bo my looking-glass, In which I will adore sweet Virtue's face. Here dwell no... | |
 | Robert Aris Willmott - 1863 - 420 pagina’s
...all in Superlatives ; Yet I more freely would these gifts resign, Than ever Fortune would have made them mine ; And hold one minute of this holy leisure...sing My cheerful anthems to the gladsome Spring; A Pray'r-Book now shall be my looking-glass, In which I will adore sweet Virtue's face. Here dwell no... | |
 | Izaak Walton, Charles Cotton - 1863 - 372 pagina’s
...freely would these gifts resign, Than ever Fortune would have made them mine ; And hold one minnte of this holy leisure Beyond the riches of this empty...pure thoughts ; welcome, ye silent groves ; These gnests, these courts, my soul most dearly lovei. Now the winged people of the sky shall sing My cheerful... | |
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In the loose rhymes of every poetaster — Could I be more than any man that lives, Great, fair, rich, wise, all in superlatives; Yet I more freely would these gifts resign, Than ever fortune would have made them mine ; And hold one minute of this holy... 
