 | Robert Aitkin Bertram - 1877 - 766 pages
...rivers ; his to enjoy With a propriety that none can feel, But who, with filial confidence inspired, field and wood To shun their poison and to choose their food ? Prescient, the tides ! ' Cmofer. 2549. NATURE. Compensations in LIBERAL, not lavish, is kind Nature's hand ; Nor was perfection... | |
 | G.W. Carleton & Co - Quotations, English - 1878 - 360 pages
...FATHER that knows his own child. SHAKESPERE, Merchant of Venice. — With filial confidence inspired. Can lift to Heaven an unpresumptuous eye, And smiling say, "My FATHER made them all ! " COWPER, The Task. Fathom. — Full FATHOM five thy father lies ; Of his bones are coral made ;... | |
 | John Adair - 1878 - 160 pages
...thoroughly schooled in science, and accustomed to abstract thought— " - with filial confidence inspired, Can lift to Heaven an unpresumptuous eye, And smiling say, My Father made them all." Disclaiming rmy pretension to treat scientifically a subject on which the Press teems with works of... | |
 | 1879 - 570 pages
...rivers. His to enjoy With a propriety that none can feel But who, with filial confidence inspired, Can lift to heaven an unpresumptuous eye, And smiling, say : ' My Father made them all.' " They were the sons and daughters of God Almighty. What dignity, what honour is here ! adopted into... | |
 | William Mackergo Taylor - Presbyterian Church - 1879 - 410 pages
...rivers. His to enjoy With a propriety that none can feel, But who, with filial confidence inspired Can lift to heaven an unpresumptuous eye, And smiling, say, ' My Father made them all.' " Thus the sense of God's presence, or the vision of God by the inner eye of faith, as he has revealed... | |
 | David Thomas - 1879 - 448 pages
...rivers his to enjoy With a propriety that none can feel ; But who hath filial confidence inspired, Can lift to heaven an unpresumptuous eye And, smiling, say, My Father made them all." It secures not only a higher pleasure in its scenes, but also in its provisions. The varied and affluent... | |
 | John McGovern - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1880 - 762 pages
...rivers. His to enjoy With a propriety that none can feel, But who, with filial confidence inspired, Can lift to heaven an unpresumptuous eye, And smiling say — " My Father made them all !" The address to the Creator closing the fifth book concludes in these words : But O thou bounteous... | |
 | Horace Hills Morgan - English literature - 1880 - 476 pages
...rivers. His to enjoy With a propriety that none can feel, But who, with filial confidence inspired, Can lift to heaven an unpresumptuous eye, And smiling say— " My Father made them all." .ROBERT BURNS. TAM O'SHANTEE. Of Brownies and of Bogilis full in this Buke. Gawin Douglas. When chapman... | |
 | mrs. William Thomas Greenup - 1880 - 328 pages
...rivers. His to enjoy With a propriety that none can feel, But who, with filial confidence inspired, Can lift to heaven an unpresumptuous eye, And smiling say, ' My Father made them all ! ' The next piece is taken from the portion of The Task entitled 'The Winter Walk at Noon.'and is... | |
 | Benjamin Clarke - 1881 - 136 pages
...rivers, his to enjoy With a propriety which none can feel, But who with filial confidence inspired Can lift to heaven an unpresumptuous eye, And smiling say, "My Father made them all."'" " Thank you, my dear; now, then, I mean to say that the farmer has more of that observation than any... | |
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... 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, and the valleys his, And the resplendent rivers. His to enjoy With a propriety that none can... 
