 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...  The seasons; with the life of the author. To which are added Hesiod, or the ... - Page 54by James Thomson - 1803Full view - About this book
 | Jesse Torrey - 1824 - 308 pages
...poems, viz. " 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...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... | |
 | British poets - 1824 - 676 pages
...Winter. 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...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... | |
 | Steam boat companion - 1824 - 228 pages
...Winter," • " Father of Light and Life, Thou God supreme ! O, teach me what is good! teach me Thyself! Save me from folly, vanity, and vice, From every low...conscious peace ,and virtue pure; Sacred, substantial, never fading bliss !" In the church-yard was buried, the Rev. Gilbert Wakefield, BA the very learned... | |
 | James Thomson - 1824 - 256 pages
...giddy round. 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...conscious peace, and virtue pure ; Sacred, substantial, never fading bliss ! The keener tempests rise : and fuming dun From all the livid east or piercing... | |
 | John Milton - 1824 - 510 pages
...round. Father of light antl life ! thou Good Supreme ! О teach me what is good ! teach me Thyself! Save me from folly, vanity, and vice, From every low...feed my soul With knowledge, conscious peace, and virrae pure ; Sai-rtd. substantial, never-failing blist ! The keener tempests rise: and fuming dun... | |
 | Marc-Antoine Jullien - 1824 - 662 pages
...« Father of light and life, tliou good suprême ! » O teach me what is good , teach me tbyself. » Save me from folly , vanity , and vice , » From every low pursuit , and £11 my soûl » Witli knowledge , conscious peacc and virtue pure , « Sacred , substancial , never... | |
 | Samuel Leigh (publisher.) - 1825 - 576 pages
...Winter:" Father of Light and Life! Thon Good Supreme ! O, teacii me what is good! teach me Thyself! Save me from folly, vanity, and vice, From every low...my soul With knowledge, conscious peace, and virtue pore; Sacred, substantial, never-fading bliss I In the church-yard was buried the Rev. Gilbert Wakefield,... | |
 | James Hervey - 1825 - 460 pages
...Gentile world : * who is tola that looketli forth as the morning!' Cant. vi. 10. t Joh, xxxYili. 12. Save me from folly, vanity, and vice, From every low pursuit ! and feed my soul With faith, with conscious peace, and virtue pure, Sacred, substantial, never-fading bliss.* Wrapt in wonder,... | |
 | John Arliss - 1825 - 382 pages
...Winter:" Fuber of Light anii Lib, Thou God Supreme ! O, tench me what is gund I tench me Tbyself I Save me from folly, vanity, and vice, From every low pursuit; and feed my lonl u nli knowledge, conscious nc.ice, and virtue pure; Surcd, subtuutial, never lading bliss ) SHERIDAN... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1825 - 600 pages
...Then issues forth the storm with sudden burst, And hurls the whole preeipitated anDown in a torrent. > piereing north Thiek elouds aseend, in whose eapaeious womb A vap'ry deluge lies, to snow eongeal 'd.... | |
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