Oh how unlike the complex works of man, Heaven's easy, artless, unencumber'd plan ! No meretricious graces to beguile, No clustering ornaments to clog the pile ; From ostentation, as from weakness, free, It stands like the cerulean arch we see, Majestic... Table Talk, and Other Poems - Σελίδα 50των William Cowper - 1817 - 179 σελίδεςΠλήρης προβολή - Σχετικά με αυτό το βιβλίο
| William Cowper - 1803 - 310 σελίδες
...ostentation, as from weakness, free, It stands like the cerulean arch we see, Majestic in its own simplicity. Inscrib'd above the portal, from afar Conspicuous...Stand the soul-quick'ning words BELIEVE, AND LIVE I Too many, shock'd at what should charm them most, Despise the plain direction, and are lost. Heav'n... | |
| William Cowper - 1806 - 478 σελίδες
...from weakness free, It stands like the cerulean arch we see, Majestic in its own simplicity. Inscribed above the portal, from afar Conspicuous as the brightness...Legible only by the light they give, • Stand the soul-quickening words — BELIEVE AND LIVE. Too many, shocked at what should charm them most, Despise... | |
| William Cowper - 1806 - 316 σελίδες
...weakness free, -i It stands like the cerulean arch we see, > ; Majestic in its own simplicity. J Inscribed above the portal, from afar Conspicuous as the brightness...star, Legible only by the light they give, Stand the soul-quickening words— BELIEVE AND LIVE. Too many.shocked at what should charm theftl most, Despise... | |
| William Cowper - 1806 - 310 σελίδες
...Majestic in its own simplicity. £»-• /'" fc " j" Inscribed above the portal, from afar y /w .i-^'v' Conspicuous as the brightness of a star, Legible only by the light they give, Stand the soul-quickening words—BELIEVE AND LIVE. y Too many,shocked at what should charm them most, Despise... | |
| Charles Edward De Coetlogon - 1807 - 588 σελίδες
...weakness, free, « It stands, like the caerulean Arch we see, * Majestic in its own Simplicity. «« Inscrib'd above the portal, from afar " Conspicuous...they give — « Stand the soul-quick'ning words— BELlSVE,and LIVE.*" THE great Theme, upon which our intellectual powers are now employed, is a matter... | |
| Charles Edward De Coetlogon - 1807 - 586 σελίδες
...from weakness, free, " It stands, like the caerulean Arch we see, " Majestic in its own Simplicity. " Inscrib'd above the portal, from afar " Conspicuous as the brightness of a Star— u Legible only by the light they give — " Stand the soul-quick'ningwords~BELiKVE,and LITE.*" IHE... | |
| William Cowper - 1808 - 360 σελίδες
...ostentation as from weakness free, It stands like the cerulean arch we see, Majestic in it's own simplicity. Inscrib'd above the portal, from afar Conspicuous...star, Legible only by the light they give, Stand the soul-quick'ningwords — BELIEVE AND LIVE. Too many, shock'd at what should charm them most, Despise... | |
| William Cowper - 1808 - 330 σελίδες
...ostentation, as from weakness free, It stands like the cerulean arch we see, Majestic in its own simplicity. Inscrib'd above the portal, from afar Conspicuous...a star, Legible only by the light they give, Stand thesoul-quickening words — BELIEVE AND LITE 1 Too many, shock'd at what should charm them most, Despise... | |
| 1809 - 420 σελίδες
...ostentation, as from weakness free, It stands like the cxrulean arch we see, Majt st ic in its own simplicity. Inscrib'd above the portal, from afar Conspicuous...Stand the soul-quick'ning words, "BELIEVE AND LIVE." IT appears strange to us, that we should be so often accused of ridiculing religion, because we have... | |
| William Cowper - 1810 - 312 σελίδες
...ostentation, as from weakness free, It stands like the cerulean arch we see, Majestic in its own simplicity. Inscrib'd above the portal, from afar Conspicuous...a star, Legible only by the light they give, Stand thesoul-quickening words — BELIEVE AND LIVE ! Too many, shock'd at what should charm them most* Despise... | |
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