 Before thy mystic altar, heavenly truth, I kneel in manhood, as I knelt in youth. Thus let me kneel, till this dull form decay, And life's last shade be brightened by thy ray. Then shall my soul, now lost in clouds below, Soar without bound, without consuming...  The British Prose Writers - Page 1731821Full view - About this book
 | John Shore Baron Teignmouth - India - 1806 - 566 pages
...has himself declared in the following elegant couplets : Before thy mystic altar, heav'nly Truth, I kneel in manhood, as I knelt in youth : Thus let me...below, Soar without bound, without consuming glow*. A disciple of Voltaire, would have omitted the observations made by Sir William Jones, or have tortured... | |
 | John Shore Baron Teignmouth - India - 1806 - 636 pages
...has himself declared in the following elegant couplets : Before thy mystic altar, heav'nly Truth, I kneel in manhood, as I knelt in youth : Thus let me...life's last shade be brighten'd by thy ray : Then Then shall 'my soul, now lost in clouds below, Soar without bound, without consuming glow*. A disciple... | |
 | John Shore Baron Teignmouth - Lawyers Great Britain Biography - 1806 - 618 pages
...has himself declared in the following elegant couplets : Before thy mystic altar, heav'nly Truth, I kneel in manhood, as I knelt in youth : Thus let me...decay, And life's last shade be brighten'd by thy ray : 297 Then shall my soul, now lost in clouds below. Soar without bound, without consuming glow*. A... | |
 | William Jones - 1807 - 534 pages
...himfelf declared in the following elegant couplets : « Before thy mystic altar, heav'uly Truth, I kneel in manhood, as I knelt in youth, : Thus let...below-, Soar without bound, without consuming glow*. A difciple of Voltaire would have omitted the obfervations made by Sir William Jones, or have tortured... | |
 | Sir William Jones - 1807 - 554 pages
...has himfelf declared in the following elegant couplets: Before thy mystic altar, heav'nly Truth, I kneel in manhood, as I knelt in youth : Thus let me...decay, And life's last shade be brighten'd by thy ray : 253 Then shall my seul, now lost in clouds below, Soar without bound, without consuming glow* . A... | |
 | John Shore Baron Teignmouth - Asianists - 1807 - 668 pages
...lias himself declared in the followiug elegant couplets : Before thy mystic altar, heav'nly Truth, I kneel in manhood, as I knelt in youth : Thus let me kneel, till this dull form decay, Aud life's last shade be hrighten'd by thy ray : Then shall my soul, now lost in clouds below, Soar... | |
 | James Forbes - 1815 - 458 pages
...elegant couplets, was the fixed object of his whole life. " Before thy mystic altar, heavenly Truth, I kneel in manhood, as I knelt in youth : » Thus let...below, Soar without bound, without consuming glow." I shall conclude these quotations with the remark of Lord Teignmouth, that the friends of religion,... | |
 | Francis Wrangham - Great Britain - 1816 - 532 pages
...own elegant couplets, written ip Berkeley's Siris : * ' Before thy mystic altar, heavenly Truth, I kneel in manhood, as I knelt in youth. Thus let me...below, Soar without bound, without consuming glow.' He elsewhere declares, that " in order to enlighten the minds of the ignorant, and to enforce the obedi-;... | |
 | Arminianism - 1839 - 1092 pages
...frofnndilale alienlos lerrent, virliile mtujnoi pascal, nffabililult piirrvlot iiutriat." 'Super Gtnttim \9.) Thus let me kneel, till this dull form decay, And...below, Soar without bound, without consuming glow ! " Dr. Samuel Johnson, on the verge of death, addressed a visiter in the •words, "Young man! attend... | |
 | Christianity - 1824 - 782 pages
...following elegant and appropriate amplification : — " Before thy mystic altar, heav'nly Truth, I kneel in manhood as I knelt in youth : . ! Thus let...till this dull form decay, And life's last shade be brightened by thy ray. Then shall my soul, now lost in clouds below, Soar without bound, without consuming... | |
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