He looks abroad into the varied field Of nature, and though poor, perhaps, compared With those whose mansions glitter in his sight, Calls the delightful scenery all his own. Poems - Page 215by William Cowper - 1786Full view - About this book
| Jared Bell - Theology, Practical - 1832 - 226 pages
...eternity. The mountains tower the more sublimely, because they point his thoughts upward to heaven. " He looks abroad into the varied field Of nature ; and though poor perhaps, compared With those whose mansions glitter in his sight, Calls the delightful scenery all his own. His are the mountains,... | |
| Charles Samuel Stewart - Islands of the Pacific - 1832 - 366 pages
...a pretension to the character drawn, to Cowper's lines on " The freeman whom the truth makes free:" He looks abroad into the varied field Of nature, and though poor perhaps, compared With those whose mansions glitter in his sight, Calls the delightful scenery all his own. His are the mountains,... | |
| Joseph Emerson - Elocution - 1832 - 122 pages
...his harm, Can wind around him, but he casts it off With as much ease, as Samson his green withes. 5 He looks abroad into the varied field Of nature, and, though poor perhaps, comparV With those whose mansions glitter in his sight. Calls the delightful scenery all his own. His... | |
| Robert Vaughan - Christian life - 1832 - 450 pages
...adversity, to the fearful probability of being found to abuse the mercies of a different condition. He looks abroad into the varied field Of nature, and though poor, perhaps, compar'd With those whose mansions glitter in his sight, Calls the delightful scenery all his own.... | |
| Thomas Taylor - 1833 - 512 pages
...strikingly descriptive of the refined pleasure with which the Christian can view the works of nature. ' He looks abroad into the varied field Of nature ; and though poor, perhaps, compared With those whose mansions glitter in his sight. Calls the delightful scenery all his own : His are the mountains,... | |
| Charles Samuel Stewart - Islands of the Pacific - 1833 - 480 pages
...pretension to the character drawn — to Cowpcr's lines on "The freeman whom the truth makes free :" H e looks abroad into the varied field Of nature, and though poor perhaps, compared With those whose mansions glitter in his sight. Calls the delightful scenery all his own. His are the mountains,... | |
| Bela Bates Edwards - Theology - 1833 - 892 pages
...calm, sweet, yet dignified and firm composure of a mind filled with all joy and peace in believing. " He looks abroad into the varied field Of nature, and though poor, perhaps, compar'd With those whose mansions glitter in his sight, Calls the delightful scenery all his own.... | |
| Charles Samuel Stewart - Islands of the Pacific - 1833 - 336 pages
...the character drawn, to Cowper's lines on " The freeman whom the truth makes free :'' He looks ubroad into the varied field Of nature, and though poor perhaps, compared With those whose mansions glitter in his sight, Calls the delightful scenery all his own. His are the mountains,... | |
| Christian life - 1847 - 600 pages
...communion with the God of the universe ! As the Christian, whom Cowper so beautifully describes — " She looks abroad into the varied field Of nature, and though poor perhaps compar'd With those whose mansions glitter in his sight, Calls the delightful scenery all her own.... | |
| Religion - 1835 - 440 pages
...strikingly descriptive of ihe refined pleasure with which the Christian can view the works of Nature — " He looks abroad into the varied field Of Nature ; and though poor, perhaps, compared With those whose mansions glitter in his sight, Calls the delightful scenery all his own : His are the mountains,... | |
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