With Amalek's ungracious progeny : Or how the royal bard did groaning lie Beneath the stroke of Heaven's avenging ire ; Or, Job's pathetic plaint, and wailing cry ; Or rapt Isaiah's wild, seraphic fire ; Or other holy seers that tune the sacred lyre. Robert Burns: A Memoir - Page 96by James White - 1859 - 100 pagesFull view - About this book
| St. John's in the Wilderness - 1857 - 166 pages
...he likes one to read to him, he says it " passes the time." And sometimes he is very attentive when, Perhaps the Christian volume is the theme, How guiltless...followers and servants sped ; The precepts sage they wrote for many a land ; How he who lone in Patmos banished Saw in the sun a mighty angel stand, And heard... | |
| William King Tweedie - Christian life - 1857 - 440 pages
...recorded these bitter and distempered complaints was the author of the following exquisite lines : — "Perhaps the Christian volume is the theme, How guiltless...for guilty man was shed : How He, who bore in heaven me second name. Had not on earth whereon to lay his head ; How his first followers and servants sped,... | |
| Lucius Hudson Holt - English poetry - 1915 - 956 pages
...wailing cry; Or rapt Isaiah's wild, seraphic fire; Or other holy Seers that tune the sacred lyre. xv Their kings, when ./Egypt with Assyria strove In wealth...highth; and straight the doors, Opening their brazen Hie head ; 130 How His first followers and servants sped; The precepts sage they wrote to many a land:... | |
| Lucius Hudson Holt - English poetry - 1915 - 952 pages
...groaning lie Beneath the stroke of Heaven's avenging ire; Or Job's pathetic plaint, and wailing cry; me, There died the best of passions, Love and Fame. 40 Yet write, () write me all, t xv Perhaps the Christian volume is the theme: How guiltless blood for guilty man was shed; How He,... | |
| Franklyn Bliss Snyder, Robert Grant Martin - English literature - 1916 - 944 pages
...avenging ire; Or Job's pathetic plaint, and wailing cry; Or rapt Isaiah's wild, seraphic fire ; 125 Or other holy seers that tune the sacred lyre. Perhaps...second name, Had not on earth whereon to lay His head: 130 How His first followers and servants sped; The precepts sage they wrote to many a land How he,... | |
| George Angier Gordon - Christianity - 1916 - 384 pages
...the friend of God on high; Or, Moses bade eternal warfare wage With Amalek's ungracious progeny. " Perhaps the Christian volume is the theme: How guiltless...second name, Had not on earth whereon to lay His head. " From scenes like these, old Scotia's grandeur springs, That makes her lov'd at home, rever'd abroad;... | |
| John Matthews Manly - English literature - 1916 - 828 pages
...groaning lie ire; Or rapt Isaiah's wild, seraphic fire; 125 Or Job's pathetic plaint, and wailing cry ; ally with peace and prosperity; for troubles and adversities do more bow men's minds to religion. heav'n the second name, Had not on earth whereon to lay His head: 130 How His first followers and servants... | |
| English poetry - 1916 - 792 pages
...avenging ire; Or Job's pathetic plaint, and wailing cry ; Or rapt Isaiah's wild, seraphic fire; 125 s completely so, 75 As who began a thousand years...fate, All but the page prescribed, their present state heav'n the second name, Had not on earth whereon to lay His head: 130 How His first followers and servants... | |
| William Irvin Lawrance - Religious education - 1918 - 136 pages
...and labors beside him, is to fit one's self to understand Job's pathetic plaint, and wailing cry ; Or rapt Isaiah's wild, seraphic fire ; Or other holy seers that tune the sacred lyre. 3. Teaching Church History. One cannot well belong to the church universal without belonging to some... | |
| Edwin Greenlaw, James Holly Hanford - American literature - 1919 - 712 pages
...wailing cry; Or rapt Isaiah's wild, seraphic fire; Or other holy seers that tune the sacred lyre. 13 lternate domination heav'n the second name, Had not on earth whereon to lay His head : How His first followers and servants... | |
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