 | H. C. Foster - English poetry - 1853 - 378 pages
...That not in humble nor in brief delight, Not in the fading echoes of Renown, Power's purple robes, nor Pleasure's flowery lap, The soul should find enjoyment...disappear, And infinite perfection close the scene. THE RAINBOW. SWEET Dove ! the softest steadiest plume In all the sunbright sky, Brightening in every... | |
 | Thomas Campbell - English poetry - 1853 - 838 pages
...in brief delight, Not in the fading echoes of Renown, Power's purple robes, nor Pleasure's flowerv lap, The soul should find enjoyment; but from these...disappear, And infinite perfection close the scene. FROM THE SAME. Final cause of our pleasure in Bt-auty. THEN tell me, for ye know, Does Beauty ever... | |
 | Cyclopaedia - 1853 - 772 pages
...said, That not in humble nor in brief delight, Nor in the fading echoes of renown, Power's purple robes nor pleasure's flowery lap, The soul should find enjoyment;...good, Through all the ascent of things enlarge her own, Till every bound at length should disappear, And infinite perfection close the scene. Akcnside.... | |
 | Edward Higginson - Bible - 1853 - 548 pages
...That not in humble nor in brief delights, Not in the fading echoes of renown, Power's purple robe or pleasure's flowery lap, The soul should find enjoyment;...Through all the ascent of things enlarge her view." Yet the Hebrew moralist seems not so clearly to see through the vanity of these things, as to discern... | |
 | Andrew Comstock - Elocution - 1853 - 456 pages
...lap, \ The soul should find enjoyment ; I but, from these Turning disdainful to an equal good, | Thro' all the ascent of things enlarge her view, | Till...length should disappear, ] And infinite perfection cloge the scene. | PAPER. [A CONVERSATIONAL PLEASANTRY.] (FRANKUN.) Some wit of old — | such wits... | |
 | Epes Sargent - Religious poetry, English - 1854 - 374 pages
...That not in humble nor in brief delight, Not in the fading echoes of Renown, Power's purple robes, nor Pleasure's flowery lap, The soul should find enjoyment...disappear, And infinite perfection close the scene. AKENSIDE. — 1721-1770. THE RAINBOW. SWEET Dove ! the softest steadiest plume In all the sunbright... | |
 | Cyclopaedia, Henry Gardiner Adams - 1854 - 762 pages
...That not in humble, nor in brief delight, Not in the fading echoes of renown, Power's purple robe, nor pleasure's flowery lap, The Soul should find enjoyment:...disappear, And infinite perfection close the scene. Akenside. The soul on earth is an immortal guest, Condemned to starve at an unreal feast: A spark,... | |
 | Sacred poetry - 1854 - 268 pages
...That not in humble nor in brief delight, Not in the fading echoes of Renown, Power's purple robes, nor Pleasure's flowery lap, The soul should find enjoyment...disappear, And infinite perfection close the scene. HYMN. By WILLIAM CCLLEN BRYANT, written for the ceremony of the opening of the Crystal Palace at New... | |
 | Mark Akenside - English poetry - 1854 - 482 pages
...That not in humble nor in brief delight, Not in the fading echoes of renown, Power's purple robes, nor pleasure's flowery lap, The soul should find enjoyment...view, Till every bound at length should disappear, 220 And infinite perfection close the scene. Call now to mind what high capacious powers . Lie folded... | |
 | Mark Akenside - English poetry - 1854 - 480 pages
...That not in humble nor in brief delight, Not in the fading echoes of renown, Power's purple robes, nor pleasure's flowery lap, The soul should find enjoyment...view, Till every bound at length should disappear, 220 And infinite perfection close the scene. Call now to mind what high capacious powers Lie folded... | |
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Rest at the fated goal. For from the birth Of mortal man, the Sovereign Maker said, That not in humble nor in brief delight, Not in the fading echoes of renown, Power's purple robes, nor pleasure's flowery lap, The soul should find enjoyment: but from... 
