There ever bask in uncreated rays, No more to sigh or shed the bitter tear, Together hymning their Creator's praise, In such society, yet still more dear ; While circling time moves round in an eternal sphere. Compared with this, how poor Religion's pride,... Poems: Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect - Page 17by Robert Burns - 1797Full view - About this book
| Joseph Payne - 1845 - 490 pages
...such society, yet still more dear ; While circling time moves round in an eternal sphere. Compared with this, how poor Religion's pride, In all the pomp of method and of art, When men display to congregations wide Devotion's ev'ry grace, except the heart! The Power, incensed, the pageant... | |
| Henry Howe - Virginia - 1845 - 562 pages
...of the meek and lowly One. How exquisite are these lines, as applied to a similar scene : " Compared with this, how poor Religion's pride, In all the pomp of method and of art, Whea men display to congregations wide Devotion's every grace, except the heart But happy we, in some... | |
| 1845 - 440 pages
...still more dear ; While circling time moves round in an eternal sphere. XVII. Compared with this.how poor Religion's pride, In all the pomp of method, and of art, When men display to congregations wide, Devotion's ev'ry grace, except the heart ! The Puw'r incensed the pageant... | |
| Baptists - 1744 - 596 pages
...praise, In such society, yet still more dear ; While circling time moves round in an eternal sphere. Compar'd with this, how poor Religion's pride, In all the pomp of method and of art, , When men display to congregations wide, Devotion's every grace, except the heart ! The Power, incens'd, the... | |
| Henry Clapp - American literature - 1846 - 228 pages
...sympathy with the melody of the flowers as they breath forth their silent thanksgiving! " Compared with this, how poor Religion's pride. In all the pomp of method and of art, When men display to congregations wide Devotion's every grace except the heart!" JEANIE MORRISON. BY WILLIAM... | |
| 1846 - 436 pages
...such society, yet still more dear, While circling time moves round in an eternal sphere. . Compared with this, how poor religion's pride, In all the pomp of method and of art, When men display to congregations wide Devotion's every grace except the heart ! The Power, incensed, the pageant... | |
| Half hours - 1847 - 560 pages
...such society, yet still more dear ; While circling time moves round in an eternal sphere. Compared with this, how poor Religion's pride, In all the pomp of method, and of art, When men display to congregations wide Devotion's ev'ry grace, except the heart! The pow'r, incensed, the pageant... | |
| Robert Turnbull - Scotland - 1847 - 396 pages
...such society, yet still more dear ; % While circling time moves round in an eternal sphere. Compared with this how poor religion's pride, In all the pomp of method and of art, When men display to congregations wide, Devotion's every grace except the heart; 3* The Power incensed the pageant... | |
| English poetry - 1848 - 468 pages
...praise, In such society, yet still more dear, While circling time moves round in an eternal sph»re. Compar'd with this, how poor Religion's pride, In all the pomp of method and of art, When men display to congregations wide, Devotion's ev'ry grace except the heart ! The Pots' r, incens'd, the... | |
| Marlborough coll - 1855 - 126 pages
...devotion of the rich and great are often accompanied, in the following beautiful lines : " Compared with this, how poor Religion's pride^ In all the pomp of method, and of art, When men display to congregations wide, Devotion's ev'ry grace, except the heart ! The Pow'r, incens'd, the... | |
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