 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 Works of Sir William Jones - Page 253by William Jones - 1807Full view - About this book
 | John Shore Baron Teignmouth - India - 1806 - 566 pages
...life, as he 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...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
...life, as he 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...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
...life, as he 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...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... | |
 | Sir William Jones - 1807 - 554 pages
...life, as he 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...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
...life, as he 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
...following 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 : ยป...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
...as by his own elegant couplets, written ip Berkeley's Siris : * ' Before thy mystic altar, heavenly Truth, I kneel in manhood, as I knelt in youth. Thus...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-;... | |
 | Periodicals - 1817 - 526 pages
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 | British prose literature - 1821 - 360 pages
...has himself declared in the following elegant couplets : Before thy mystic altar, heavenly Truth, 1 kneel in manhood, as I knelt in youth. Thus let me...below, Soar without bound, without consuming glow. THE following epitaph, evidently intended for himself, was written by sir William Jones, a short time... | |
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