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" While I do rest, my soul advance: Make my sleep a holy trance: That I may, my rest being wrought, Awake into some holy thought, And with as active vigour run My course, as doth the nimble sun. "
Spirit of the English Magazines - Page 14
1821
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The Orthodox churchman's magazine; or, A Treasury of divine and ..., Volume 5

1803 - 490 pages
...my head infest, But such as Jacob's temples blest. While I doe rest my soul advance, Make my sleepe a holy trance, That I may, my rest being wrought^...into some holy thought. And with as active vigour rur.ne My course, as doth the nimble sunns. £leepe is a death, O make me try, By bleeping what it...
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Letters to John Aikin, M. D.: On His Volume of Vocal Poetry: and on His ...

James Plumptre - Songs, English - 1811 - 486 pages
...no dreams my head infest, But such as Jacob's temples blest. 3 While I do rest, my soul advance, And make my sleep a holy trance ; That I may, my rest...wrought, Awake into some holy thought ; And, with an active vigour, run My course, as doth the nimble sun. 4 Sleep is a death, O make me try, By sleeping,...
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Time's Telescope for ... ; Or, A Complete Guide to the Almanack

Almanacs, English - 1821 - 444 pages
...those watchful foes Whose eyes are open while mine close. Let no dreams my head infest, But such as Jacob's temples blest : While I do rest, my soul advance,...My course, as doth the nimble sun. Sleep is a death ! O, make me try, By sleeping, what it is to die ; And as gently lay my head On my grave, as now my...
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Evenings in Autumn: On the blindness of Homer, Ossian, and Milton. The ...

Nathan Drake - 1822 - 362 pages
...those watchful foes, Whose eyes are open while mine close. Let no dreams my head infest, But such as Jacob's temples blest. While I do rest, my soul advance,...My course as doth the nimble sun. Sleep is a death, O make me try, By sleeping, what it is to die; And as gently lay my head, On my grave, as now my bed....
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On the blindness of Homer, Ossian, and Milton. The Valley of the Rye ...

Nathan Drake - 1822 - 366 pages
...those watchful foes, Whose eyes are open while mine close. Let no dreams my head infest, But such as Jacob's temples blest. While I do rest, my soul advance,...into some holy thought. And with as active vigour run • i . My course as doth the nimble sun. ;. .. .; Sleep is a death, O make me try, . - « }.. . By...
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The Wesleyan-Methodist Magazine

Arminianism - 1833 - 958 pages
...open while mine close Let no dream my head infest, But such as Jacob's temples blest. While I thus rest, my soul advance, Make my sleep a holy trance, That I may (my rest being wrought) Awake unto some holy thought ; 1(180. And with an active vigour run My course, as doth the' unwearied sun....
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The Cottager's monthly visitor, Volume 4

1824 - 588 pages
...those watchful foes, Whose eyes are open while mine close. Let no dreams my head infest, But such as Jacob's temples blest. While I do rest, my soul advance...course, as doth the nimble sun. Sleep is a death! O, make me try By sleeping what it is to die; And as gently lay my head On my grave, as on my bed!...
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Religio Medici

Sir Thomas Browne - Christian ethics - 1831 - 180 pages
...are open while mine close. Let no dreams my head infest, But such as Jacob's temples blest. Whilst I do rest, my soul advance ; Make my sleep a holy...My course as doth the nimble sun. Sleep is a death, O make me try, By sleeping, what it is to die : And as gently lay my head On my grave, as now my bed....
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The Library of the Old English Prose Writers ...: Works of Sir Thomas Browne

English literature - 1831 - 370 pages
...Jacob's temples blest. * Both of whom were permitted by Nero to choose the mode in which they would die. While I do rest, my soul advance, Make my sleep a...Awake into some holy thought ; And with as active vigor run My course as doth the nimble sun. Sleep is a death. O make me try, By sleeping, what it is...
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The Unitarian Advocate and Religious Miscellany, Volumes 5-6

Unitarianism - 1832 - 702 pages
...those watchful foes, Whose eyes are open while mine close. Let no dreams my head infest, But such as Jacob's temples blest. While I do rest, my soul advance,...wrought, Awake into some holy thought; And with as active vigor run My course as doth the nimble sun. Sleep is a death. O make me try, By sleeping, what it is...
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