| Seven ages - 1842 - 154 pagine
...clamorous nest, And decks the lily fair in flowery pride, Would, in the way his wisdom sees the best, For them, and for their little ones provide, But chiefly in their hearts with grace divine preside. Compared with this, how poor religious pride, In all the pomp of method and of art, When men... | |
| 1843 - 350 pagine
...clamorous nest, And decks the lily fair in flowery pride, Would, in the way his wisdom sees the best, For them and for their little ones provide ; But chiefly in their hearts with grace divine preside. Burns. THE SABBATH. GLORIOUS the hour, when, on the world new-sprung From his creative hand,... | |
| H. D. - 1843 - 438 pagine
...clamourous nest, And decks the lily fair in flowery pride, Would, in the way his wisdom sees the best, For them and for their little ones provide ; But chiefly in their hearts with grace divine preside. BURNS. XLI. TRUTH, HONESTY, FALSEHOOD, DECEIT. LOVE the trutb. — ZBCH. viii. 19. Let thine... | |
| 1843 - 184 pagine
...clamorous nest, And decks the lily fair in flowery pride, Would, in the way his wisdom sees the best, For them and for their little ones provide ; But chiefly in their hearts with grace divine preside. BURNS. HYMN OF A HERMIT, . THOTJ, Lord ! who rear'st the mountains' height, .And mak'st the... | |
| English poetry - 1844 - 110 pagine
...clamorous nest, And decks the lily fair in flowery pride, Would, in the way his wisdom sees the best, For them and for their little ones provide ; But chiefly in their hearts with grace divine preside. BURNS. A MOTHER'S DEATH. THEN died lamented, in the strength of life, A valued Mother, and... | |
| Lord Francis Jeffrey Jeffrey - 1844 - 540 pagine
...clam'rous nest, And decks the lily fair in flow'ry pride, Would, in the way his wisdom sees the best, For them and for their little ones provide ; But chiefly, in their hearts, with grace divine preside." voLiii. p. 174— 181. The charm of the fine lines written on turning up a mouse's nest with... | |
| Samuel Griswold Goodrich - 1844 - 336 pagine
...clam'rous nest, And decks the lily fair in flow'ry pride, Would, in the way his wisdom sees the best, For them and for their little ones provide ; But chiefly in their hearts with grace divine preside. It is our painful duty to state that the industry, virtue and sobriety which characterized... | |
| Joseph Payne - 1845 - 490 pagine
...clamorous nest. And decks the lily fair in flowery pride, Would, in the way His wisdom sees the best, For them, and for their little ones, provide ; But, chiefly, in their hearts, with grace divine preside. 1 A line from Pope's "Windsor Forest." From scenes like these, old Scotia's grandeur springs,... | |
| John Wilson - 1845 - 236 pagine
...clam'rous nest, And decks the lily fair in floWry pride, Would, in the way his wisdom sees the best, For them and for their little ones provide: But chiefly, in their hearts with grace divine preside." Think again of the first stanza of all—for you have forgotten it —of the toil-worn Cottar... | |
| John Hall Hindmarsh - 1845 - 464 pagine
...clamorous nest, And decks the lily fair in flowery pride, Would, in the way his wisdom sees the best, For them, and for their little ones, provide ; But, chiefly, in their hearts with grace divine preside. From scenes like these old Scotia's grandeur springs, That makes her loved at home, revered... | |
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