Meditations and Contemplations, Volume 1J. Rivingston, 1779 - Devotional literature |
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Page xii
... spread her cloudlefs Skies . When the Storm thickens and the Thunder rolls , When the Earth trembles to th ' affrighted Poles ; The virtuous Mind , nor Doubts nor Fears affail ; For Storms are Zephyrs , or a gentler Gale . And when ...
... spread her cloudlefs Skies . When the Storm thickens and the Thunder rolls , When the Earth trembles to th ' affrighted Poles ; The virtuous Mind , nor Doubts nor Fears affail ; For Storms are Zephyrs , or a gentler Gale . And when ...
Page xv
... spreads The yellow Harvests , and the verdant Meads . Thy Pupil , HERVEY , a Redeemer finds In boundless Oceans , and in viewless Winds : He reins at Will the furious Blaft , and guides The rending Tempefts , and the roaring Tides . O ...
... spreads The yellow Harvests , and the verdant Meads . Thy Pupil , HERVEY , a Redeemer finds In boundless Oceans , and in viewless Winds : He reins at Will the furious Blaft , and guides The rending Tempefts , and the roaring Tides . O ...
Page xvi
... spreads the spacious Skies , Who hung this Air - fufpended Ball , And lives , and reigns , and fhines , in All ! To chafe our fenfual Fogs away , And bright to pour th ' eternal Ray Of Deity infcrib'd around 7 Wide Nature to her utmost ...
... spreads the spacious Skies , Who hung this Air - fufpended Ball , And lives , and reigns , and fhines , in All ! To chafe our fenfual Fogs away , And bright to pour th ' eternal Ray Of Deity infcrib'd around 7 Wide Nature to her utmost ...
Page xx
... spreads its Luftre thro ' thy various Theme ; That speaks deep Leffons from the filent Tomb , And crowns thy Garden with fresh - springing Bloom Or , piercing thro ' Creation's ample Whole , Now fooths the Night , or gilds the starry ...
... spreads its Luftre thro ' thy various Theme ; That speaks deep Leffons from the filent Tomb , And crowns thy Garden with fresh - springing Bloom Or , piercing thro ' Creation's ample Whole , Now fooths the Night , or gilds the starry ...
Page 79
... spreads her Raven Wings . -Let me now emerge from the damp and dreadful Obfcurity . - Farewel , ye Seats of De- folation , and Shades of Death ! Gladly I revifit the Realms of Day . HAVING caft a fuperficial View , upon thefe ...
... spreads her Raven Wings . -Let me now emerge from the damp and dreadful Obfcurity . - Farewel , ye Seats of De- folation , and Shades of Death ! Gladly I revifit the Realms of Day . HAVING caft a fuperficial View , upon thefe ...
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