 Moved with the heaven's majestic pace ; Or, call'd to more superior bliss, Thou tread'st, with seraphims, the vast abyss : Whatever happy region is thy place, Cease thy celestial song a little space ; Thou wilt have time enough for hymns divine, Since...  The Edinburgh Review - Page 1291834Full view - About this book
 | Alexander Mackenzie, Alexander Macgregor, Alexander Macbain - 1878 - 496 pages
...rehearse In DO ignoble verse. But such «s thine own voice did practice here, When thy first fruits were given, To make thyself a welcome inmate there, While yet a young probationer, And candidate for heaven. (To be Continued.) THE HIGHLAND СЕОГТ SYSTEM. TO THE EDITOR OF THE CELTIO MAGAZINE.... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - 1878 - 788 pages
...the rhyme, The motion measured, harmonized the chime. DRYDEN. Thy first-fruits of poesy were giv'n To make thyself a welcome inmate there, While yet a young probationer, And candidate of heav'n. DRVDEN. Is my muse controll'd By servile awe ? Born free, and not be bold ! At least I'll dig... | |
 | Thomas Humphry Ward - 1880 - 524 pages
...a little space ; Thou wilt have time enough for hymns divine, Since Heaven's eternal year is thine. Hear then a mortal Muse thy praise rehearse, In no...yet a young probationer, And candidate of Heaven. If by traduction * came thy mind, Our wonder is the less to find A soul so charming from a stock so... | |
 | Laura Valentine - 1880 - 634 pages
...a little space ; Thou wilt have time enough for hymns divine, Since Heaven's eternal year is thine. Hear, then, a mortal Muse thy praise rehearse, In...yet a young probationer, And candidate of heaven. If by traduction came thy mind, Our wonder is the less, to find A soul so charming from a stock so... | |
 | Thomas Humphry Ward - 1880 - 536 pages
...a little space ; Thou wilt have time enough for hymns divine, Since Heaven's eternal year is thine. Hear then a mortal Muse thy praise rehearse, In no...yet a young probationer, And candidate of Heaven. If by traduction l came thy mind, Our wonder is the less to find A soul so charming from a stock so... | |
 | Joseph Angus - 1880 - 726 pages
...a little space ; Thou wilt have time enough for hymns divine, Since heaven's eternal year is thine. Hear, then, a mortal muse thy praise rehearse, In no ignoble verse ; But such as thine own voice did practise here, When thy first-fruits of poesy were given ; To make thyself a welcome... | |
 | Thomas Humphry Ward - 1880 - 528 pages
...a little space ; Thou wilt have time enough for hymns divine, Since Heaven's eternal year is thine. Hear then a mortal Muse thy praise rehearse, In no ignoble verse, 1 Anne Killigrew, maid of honour to the Duchess of York, died of the small-pox in 1685, in the twenty-fifth... | |
 | sir Edmund William Gosse - 1881 - 308 pages
...a little space ; Thou wilt have time enough for hymns divine, Since Heaven's eternal year is thine. Hear then a mortal Muse thy praise rehearse In no...yet a young probationer, And candidate of Heaven. II. If by traduction came thy mind, Our wonder is the less to find A soul so charming from a stock... | |
 | George Saintsbury - 1881 - 216 pages
...a little space ; Thou wilt have time enough for hymns divine, Since Heaven's eternal year is thine. Hear, then, a mortal Muse thy praise rehearse, In...were given, To make thyself a welcome inmate there j While yet a young probationer, And candidate of heaven. These smaller pieces were followed at some... | |
 | English poets - 1889 - 596 pages
...year is thine. Hear, then, a mortal Muse thy praise rehearse, In no ignoble verse ; But such as thine own voice did practise here. When thy first fruits...make thyself a welcome inmate there : While yet a youug probationer, And candidate of heaven. If by traduction came thy mind, Our wonder is the less... | |
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