 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
 | John Stoughton - Puritans - 1850 - 414 pages
...Robinson. * Smyth's Lectures on History, vol. i. 94. CHAPTER IV. THE CHURCH IN SOUTHWARK. " 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... | |
 | John Lauris Blake - Agriculture - 1850 - 688 pages
...the meek and lowly One. How g exquisite are these lines, as applied to a similar case:— I 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. But happy we, in some cot far... | |
 | George Croly - English poetry - 1850 - 442 pages
...In 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... | |
 | Edward Hughes - 1851 - 362 pages
...In 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... | |
 | Catherine Sinclair - 1852 - 322 pages
...man an empress might envy, for it leads to home-happiness and to simple home-felt piety. " ' 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 \-Burm.' " END OF vOL. I. ALL... | |
 | John Aikin - English poetry - 1852 - 792 pages
...society, yet still more dear ; [sphere. While circling time moves round in an eternal XVII. Compared display, to congregations wide, Devotion's every grace, except the heart ! The Power, incensed, the... | |
 | Henry Howe - District of Columbis - 1852 - 614 pages
...and lowly Oue. How exquisite are these lines, as applied to a similar scene : " Compared with thin, how poor Religion's pride, , In all the pomp of method and of art. When men display to congregation* wide Devotion's every grace, except the heart. But happy we, in some cat far... | |
 | Samuel Hanson Cox - Mormons - 1853 - 342 pages
...In 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... | |
 | Poets, American - 1853 - 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 every grace, except the heart ! The Power, incensed, the pageant... | |
 | Scottish ballads and songs - 1854 - 606 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 Pow'r, incens'd, the pageant... | |
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