 | Henry Howe - Virginia - 1845 - 616 pages
...ho framed The lofty vault, to gather and roll back The sound of anthems ; In the darkling wood, Amid the cool and silence, he knelt down And offered to the Mightiest solemn thanks And supplication." In many of these sparsely-inhabited counties, there are no settled clergymen, and rarely do the people... | |
 | C. P. Bronson - Elocution - 1845 - 390 pages
...lofty vault, to gather, and roll back, The sound of anthems, — in the darkling wood, Amidst the coot and silence, he knelt down, And offered, to the Mightiest, solemn thanks, And supplication. For his simple heart Might not resist the sacred influences, Thiu from the stilly twilight of the place,... | |
 | George Bancroft - United States - 1846 - 528 pages
...then, beg- ^"jjj; ging the men who conducted his canoe to leave him 3i3'i*' alone for a half hour, " in the darkling wood, Amidst the cool and silence,...solemn thanks And supplication." At the end of the half-hour, they went to seek him, and he was no more. The good missionary, discoverer of a world, had... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - 1847 - 520 pages
...the roof above them,—ere he framed The lofty vault, to gather and roll back The sound of anthems; in the darkling wood, Amidst the cool and silence,...offered to the Mightiest solemn thanks And supplication. For his simple heart Might not resist the sacred influences Which, from the stilly twilight of the... | |
 | James Dixon - Canada - 1849 - 522 pages
...Catholic church ; then, begging the men who conducted his canoe to leave him alone half an hour, ' In the darkling wood, Amidst the cool and silence,...supplication.' " At the end of the half hour they wient to seek him, and he was no more. The good missionary, discoverer of a world, had fallen asleep... | |
 | Thomas Powell - American literature - 1850 - 382 pages
...the roof above them, — ere he framed The lofty vault to gather and roll back The sound of anthems ; in the darkling wood, Amidst the cool and silence,...offered to the Mightiest solemn thanks And supplication. For his simple heart Might not resist the sacred influences Which, from the stilly twilight of the... | |
 | Thomas Powell - American literature - 1850 - 384 pages
...the roof above them, — ere he framed The lofty vault to gather and roll back The sound of anthems ; in the darkling wood, Amidst the cool and silence,...offered to the Mightiest solemn thanks And supplication. For his simple heart Might not resist the sacred influences Which, from the stilly twilight of the... | |
 | John Wells Foster, Josiah Dwight Whitney - Copper mines and mining - 1850 - 258 pages
...the men who conducted his canoe to leave him alone for half an hour, ' * In the Darkling woo'I, Amid the cool and silence, he knelt down, And offered to...Mightiest solemn thanks, And supplication.' At the end of half an hour they went to seek him, and he was no more. 'The good missionary, discoverer of a world,... | |
 | Sarah C. Carter - American poetry - 1850 - 144 pages
...shaft, and lay the architrave, And spread the roof above them, — ere he framed 62 CHOICE GIFT. OB Amidst the cool and silence, he knelt down And offered...to the Mightiest, solemn thanks And supplication. For his simple heart Might not resist the sacred influences, That from the stilly twilight of the place,... | |
 | Kentucky - 1850 - 608 pages
...Asnhinil's Register of 1790, p. 32. I History of Ten Churches, p. 42. •* History of Ten Churches, p. 90. Amidst the cool and silence, he knelt down, And offered to the Mightiest solemn thanks And supplications."* In 1785, three associations were organized, viz. : The ELKHORN, comprising all the... | |
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THE groves were God's first temples. Ere man learned To hew the shaft, and lay the architrave. And spread the roof above them, — ere he framed The lofty vault, to gather and roll back The sound of anthems ; in the darkling wood, Amidst the cool and... 
