Perhaps the Christian volume is the theme, How guiltless blood for guilty man was shed ; How He, who bore in Heaven the second name, Had not on earth whereon to lay His head: How His first followers and servants sped ; The precepts sage they wrote to... Masterpieces of the World's Best Literature - Side 133redigert av - 1910Uten tilgangsbegrensning - Om denne boken
| John Pierpont - 1823 - 492 sider
...blood the slipp'ry fields are dy'd, And slaughter^ heroes swell-the dreadful tide. Family devotion. Lo, kneeling down to Heaven's Eternal King, The saint, the father and the husband pray* : Hope springs exulting on triumphant wing That thus they all shall meet in future day* : There... | |
| Robert Burns - 1824 - 292 sider
...man was shed ; How He, who bore in Heaven the second name, Had not on earth whereon to lay his head : How his first followers and servants sped ; The precepts...in the sun a mighty angel stand ; And heard great BaVlon's doom pronounc'd by Heav'n's command. XvI. Then kneeling down, to Heaven's Eternal King, The... | |
| 1824 - 486 sider
...was shed ; How He , who bore in heav'n the second name, Had not on earth whereon to lay his head : How his first followers and servants sped, The precepts...sage they wrote to many a land ; How he, who lone in Patnua banish'd, Saw in the sun a mighty angel stand ; And heard great Bab'lon's doom pronounc'd by... | |
| Saturday night - 1824 - 968 sider
...shed ; How He, who bore in heav'n the second name, Had not on earth whereon to lay his head : •" How his first followers and servants sped, The precepts...sage they wrote to many a land ; How he, who lone inPatmo* banish 'd, Saw in the sun a mighty angel stand ; And heard great Bab'lon's doom pronounc'dby... | |
| 1824 - 246 sider
...and on this intimation, the family ranged themselves round the fire for the evening devotion, and " Kneeling down to heaven's eternal King, The saint, the father, and the husband pray'd." It would be leading me too far from the regular course of my story to describe the various... | |
| 1825 - 556 sider
...man was shed; How He, who bore in heaven the second name, Hadnot on earth whereon tolay his head ; How his first followers and servants sped ; The precepts...husband, prays: Hope " springs exulting on triumphant wings," That thus they all shall meet in future days, There ever bask in uncreated rays, No more to... | |
| Select poetry - 1825 - 182 sider
...man was shed ; How he, who bore in heaven the second name, Had not on earth whereon to lay his head ; How his first followers and servants sped ; The precepts...mighty angel stand ; And heard great Babylon's doom pronounc'd by Heaven's command. Then, kneeling down, to Heaven's eternal King The saint, the father,... | |
| British anthology - 1825 - 464 sider
...man was shed ; How He, who bore in heaven the second name, Had not on earth whereon to lay his head : How his first followers and servants sped ; The precepts...in the sun a mighty angel stand ; And heard great Bab'lon's doom pronounced by Heaven's command. Then, kneeling down, to Heaven's eternal King The saint,... | |
| 950 sider
...far more congenial to our taste, to take the " big Ha' Bible," " in our house at home," and read, " How he who lone in Patmos banished, Saw in the sun a mighty angel stund, And heard great Babylon's doom pronounced by Heaven's command." But as we are convinced that,... | |
| Robert Burns, Alfred Howard - 1826 - 226 sider
...was shed; How He, who bore in heaven the second name, Had not on earth whereon to lay his head: • How his first followers and servants sped; The precepts...Saw in the sun a mighty angel stand: And heard great Bab'lon's doom pronounced by Heaven's command. Then kneeling down, to Heaven's Eternal King, The saint,... | |
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