 With those whose mansions glitter in his sight, Calls the delightful scenery all his own. His are the mountains, and the valleys his, And the resplendent rivers. His to enjoy With a propriety that none can feel, But who, with filial confidence inspired,...  The Eclectic review. vol. 1-New [8th] - Page 5161827Full view - About this book
 | John Bowdler - 1816 - 370 pages
...actions and sufferings, good and evil, are mingled together, can recognize by faith a latent order; Can lift to heaven an unpresumptuous eye, And smiling say, My Father made them all. " The earth may shake, the pillars of the world may tremble under us, the countenance of the heaven... | |
 | Mary Cooper - Christian biography - 1819 - 306 pages
...silent, unobserved, enjoyments have flowed. How sublimity is heightened, my dear friend, when we can ' lift to heaven an unpresumptuous eye, and smiling say, My Father made them all.' As a friend said to me the other day, we can never truly bless God for our creation, till we can for... | |
 | John Bowdler - 1820 - 418 pages
...actions and sufferings, good and evil, are mingled together, can recognize by faith a latent order ; Can lift to heaven an unpresumptuous eye, And smiling say, My Father made them all. " The earth may shake, the pillars of the world may tremble under us, the countenance of the heaven... | |
 | John Aikin - English poetry - 1821 - 278 pages
...rivers. His t' enjoy With a propriety that none can feel, But who, with filial confidence inspir'd, Can lift to Heaven an unpresumptuous eye, And smiling say — " My father made them all !" Are they not his by a peculiar right, And by an emphasis of int'rest his, Whose eye they fill with... | |
 | Barnabas Hill (fict.name.) - 1821 - 80 pages
...rivers. His t" enjoy With a propriety that none can feel, But who, with filial confidence inspired, Can lift to heaven an unpresumptuous eye, And smiling say — " My Father made them all !" Are they not his by a peculiar right, And by an emphasis of int'rest his, Whose eye they fill with... | |
 | Henry Kollock - Presbyterian Church - 1822 - 510 pages
...rivers. His to enjoy With a propriety that none can feel : But who, with filial confidence inspired. Can lift to heaven an unpresumptuous eye, And smiling say, ' My Father made them all !' Are they not his by a peculiar right, And by an emphasis of interest his, Whose eye they fill with... | |
 | Thomas Brown - Philosophy - 1822 - 594 pages
...His to enjoy, With a propriety that none can feel, • But who with filial confidence inspir'd, Can lift to Heaven an unpresumptuous eye, And smiling say, " My father made them all." Are they not hit, by a peculiar right, Whose eye they fill with tears of holy joy, Whose heart with... | |
 | British poets - 1822 - 310 pages
...rivers. His to' enjoy With a propriety that none can feel But who with filial confidence inspired Can lift to heaven an unpresumptuous eye, And smiling say — ' My Father made them all!' Are they not his by a peculiar right, And by an emphasis of interest his, Whose eye they fill with... | |
 | Ann Yosy - Christian life - 1822 - 198 pages
...rivers: his to enjoy With a propriety that none can feel, But who, with filial confidence inspir'd, Can lift to heaven an unpresumptuous eye, And smiling say, ' My Father made them all!' Are they not his by a peculiar right, And by an emphasis of interest his, Whose eye they fill with... | |
 | English literature - 1823 - 614 pages
...Cowper expresses, when he speaks of all nature being, by an emphasis of interest, his, who can — ' lift to heaven an unpresumptuous eye, And smiling say, My Father made them all.' The Hortus Anglicus, which we have associated with this work as relating to a common subject, is of... | |
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