 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
 | William Cullen Bryant - American poetry - 1877 - 630 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 eyes they fill with... | |
 | John Adair - 1878 - 160 pages
...schooled in science, and accustomed to abstract thought— " - with filial confidence inspired, Can lift to Heaven an unpresumptuous eye, And smiling say, My Father made them all." Disclaiming rmy pretension to treat scientifically a subject on which the Press teems with works of... | |
 | G.W. Carleton & Co - Quotations, English - 1878 - 360 pages
...that knows his own child. SHAKESPERE, Merchant of Venice. — With filial confidence inspired. Can lift to Heaven an unpresumptuous eye, And smiling say, "My FATHER made them all ! " COWPER, The Task. Fathom. — Full FATHOM five thy father lies ; Of his bones are coral made ;... | |
 | Charles John Abbey - Church and state - 1878 - 606 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... | |
 | William Mackergo Taylor - Presbyterian Church - 1879 - 410 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.' " Thus the sense of God's presence, or the vision of God by the inner eye of faith, as he has revealed... | |
 | 1879 - 570 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.' " They were the sons and daughters of God Almighty. What dignity, what honour is here ! adopted into... | |
 | David Thomas - 1879 - 448 pages
...rivers his to enjoy With a propriety that none can feel ; But who hath filial confidence inspired, Can lift to heaven an unpresumptuous eye And, smiling, say, My Father made them all." It secures not only a higher pleasure in its scenes, but also in its provisions. The varied and affluent... | |
 | Horace Hills Morgan - English literature - 1880 - 476 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." .ROBERT BURNS. TAM O'SHANTEE. Of Brownies and of Bogilis full in this Buke. Gawin Douglas. When chapman... | |
 | John McGovern - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1880 - 762 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 !" The address to the Creator closing the fifth book concludes in these words : But O thou bounteous... | |
 | mrs. William Thomas Greenup - 1880 - 328 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 ! ' The next piece is taken from the portion of The Task entitled 'The Winter Walk at Noon.'and is... | |
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