Meditations and Contemplations, Volume 1J. Rivingston, 1779 - Devotional literature |
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Page vii
... Nature's wide Fields all open to his View , He charms the Mind with fomething ever New : On Fancy's Pinions , his advent'rous Soul Wantons unbounded , and pervades the Whole : From Death's dark Caverns in the Earth below , To Spheres ...
... Nature's wide Fields all open to his View , He charms the Mind with fomething ever New : On Fancy's Pinions , his advent'rous Soul Wantons unbounded , and pervades the Whole : From Death's dark Caverns in the Earth below , To Spheres ...
Page viii
... Nature in Embroid❜ry fhines : The Jeff mine Groves , the Woodbine's fragrant Bow'rs , With all the painted Family of Flow'rs : There , Sachariffa ! in each fleeting Grace , Read all the tranfient Honours of thy Face , With equal ...
... Nature in Embroid❜ry fhines : The Jeff mine Groves , the Woodbine's fragrant Bow'rs , With all the painted Family of Flow'rs : There , Sachariffa ! in each fleeting Grace , Read all the tranfient Honours of thy Face , With equal ...
Page xi
... Nature call , And prove the GOD of Nature Friend of all ; HERVEY for this his mental Landscape drew , And sketch'd the whole Creation out to View , Th ' enamel'd Bloom , and variegated Flow'r , Whofe Crimson changes with the changing ...
... Nature call , And prove the GOD of Nature Friend of all ; HERVEY for this his mental Landscape drew , And sketch'd the whole Creation out to View , Th ' enamel'd Bloom , and variegated Flow'r , Whofe Crimson changes with the changing ...
Page xiii
... Nature inform'd by Thee , new Paths has trod , And rifes , here , a Preacher for her GoD ; By Fancy's Aids mysterious Heights she tries , And lures us by our Senfes , to the Skies . To deck thy Stile collected Graces throng , Bold as ...
... Nature inform'd by Thee , new Paths has trod , And rifes , here , a Preacher for her GoD ; By Fancy's Aids mysterious Heights she tries , And lures us by our Senfes , to the Skies . To deck thy Stile collected Graces throng , Bold as ...
Page xv
... Nature's Course is run , " Midft falling Stars , and an extinguish'd Sun : He will with Myriads of his Saints appear . O may I join them , tho ' the meaneft there ! Tho ' nearer to the Throne my HERVEY fings ; Tho ' I at humbler ...
... Nature's Course is run , " Midft falling Stars , and an extinguish'd Sun : He will with Myriads of his Saints appear . O may I join them , tho ' the meaneft there ! Tho ' nearer to the Throne my HERVEY fings ; Tho ' I at humbler ...
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