 Father of light and life, thou Good Supreme ! O teach me what is good ; teach me Thyself! Save me from folly, vanity, and vice, From every low pursuit; and feed my soul With knowledge, conscious peace, and virtue pure; Sacred, substantial, never-fading...  Poems, by Somerville, Pattison, Savage, Broome, and Swift - Page 65by William Somervile - 1811Full view - About this book
 | Jesse Appleton - 1822 - 448 pages
...rational views of the character of God, or the condirion of man. " Father of light and life ; tbou good supreme ; O teach me what is good ; teach me thyself ; Save me from folty, vanity and vice, From every low purioit; and feed my soul With knowledge, conscious peace, and... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1823 - 236 pages
...while here How tasteless and how terrible when gone Gone they ne er go when past they haunt us still Father of light and life Thou good supreme O teach me what is good Teach me thyself Save me from fully vanity and vice From er ry low pursuit and feed my soul With knowledge conscious peace and virtue... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1823 - 716 pages
...when gone Gone they ne er go when past they haunt us still Father of light and life Thou good supremo O teach me what is good Teach me thyself Save me from folly vanity and vire From ev ry low pursuit and feed my soul With knowledge conscious peace and virtue pure Sacred... | |
 | British poets - 1824 - 676 pages
...mortals lost to hope, and lights them safe, Through all the dreary labyrinth of fate. Ibid — Winter. Father of light and life ! thou Good Supreme ! O teach...virtue pure ; Sacred, substantial, never-fading bliss ! Ibid. In the vast, and the minute, we see The unambiguous footsteps of the God Who gives its lustre... | |
 | Jesse Torrey - 1824 - 308 pages
...favors to me." 22 I used also sometimes a little prayer, which I took from Thomson's poems, viz. " Father of light and life, thou Good Supreme ! O teach...virtue pure; Sacred, substantial, never-fading bliss!" 23 The precept of order, requiring that every part of my business should have its allotted time, one... | |
 | James Thomson - 1824 - 256 pages
...visions past, And broken slumbers, rises still resolved, With new-flush'd hopes, to run the giddy round. Father of light and life ! thou Good supreme ! O teach...conscious peace, and virtue pure ; Sacred, substantial, never fading bliss ! The keener tempests rise : and fuming dun From all the livid east or piercing... | |
 | Steam boat companion - 1824 - 228 pages
...3792." Underneath is this quotation from Thomson's " Winter," • " Father of Light and Life, Thou God supreme ! O, teach me what is good! teach me Thyself!...conscious peace ,and virtue pure; Sacred, substantial, never fading bliss !" In the church-yard was buried, the Rev. Gilbert Wakefield, BA the very learned... | |
 | John Milton - 1824 - 510 pages
...With iMjw-flu!.htt hopes, to run the giddy round. Father of light antl life ! thou Good Supreme ! О teach me what is good ! teach me Thyself! Save me...feed my soul With knowledge, conscious peace, and virrae pure ; Sai-rtd. substantial, never-failing blist ! The keener tempests rise: and fuming dun... | |
 | 1897 - 798 pages
...close : — Father of light and life, thou Good Supreme ! 0, teach me what is good ; teach me Thyself I Save me from folly, vanity, and vice, From every low...pure — Sacred, substantial, never-fading bliss. (" Winter.") ART. X. — The Maoris To-day and To-morrow. By H. HILL, BA, FGS [Bead before the Hau-ke's... | |
 | E. A. Smith - 1999 - 348 pages
...copying into his writing book lines from Thomson's 'Address to the Deity', exhorting the Almighty to 'Save me from folly, vanity, and vice / From every...soul / With knowledge, conscious peace and virtue poor.' He copied the passage four times, either to perfect his handwriting or, more likely, to make... | |
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