 | John Bunyan - 1795 - 638 pages
...transitory life's late day That mingles all my brown with fober gray, Revere the man, whose Pilgr1m marks the road And guides the Progress of the soul to God. "Twere well with most, if books that could engage Their childhood, plcas'd them at a riper age; The... | |
 | William Cowper - English poetry - 1800 - 438 pages
...deserved fame; Yet ev'n in transitory life's late day, . sThat mingles all my brown with sober gray, Revere the man, whose PILGRIM marks the road, And guides the progress of the soul to God. 'Twere well with most, if books, that could engage Their childhood, pleas'd them at a riper age; The... | |
 | Nathan Drake - English essays - 1805 - 420 pages
...smile, Witly, and well employ'd, and like thy Lord, Speaking in parables his slighted word, — I name thee not, lest so despis'da name Should move a sneer,...DD Chancellor of Worcester, and Prebendary of that cathea.aj, is now only known as the author of N° 36, in the Guardian. This paper is ascribed to him... | |
 | William Cowper - English poetry - 1806 - 226 pages
...deserved fame ; Yet even in transitory life's late day, That mingles all my brown with sober gray, Revere the man, whose PILGRIM marks the road, And guides the PROGRESS of the soul to God. Twere well with most, if books, that could engage Their childhood, pleased them at a riper age ; The... | |
 | William Cowper - 1806 - 300 pages
...life's late;day, . • . That mingles all my brown with sober gray> Revere the man, whose riL« RIM marks: the road, • And guides the PROGRESS of the soul to God.. 'Twere well witl> most, if books that could engage'. Their childhood, pleased them at a riper age;... | |
 | Christian biography - 1810 - 332 pages
...thy deserved fame; Yet e'en in transitory life s late day, That mingles all my blown with sober gray, Revere the man, whose PILGRIM marks the road, And guides the PROGRESS of the soul to God. jwv •t While those, who benil beneath the weight of age, Still, smiling, draw instruction from his... | |
 | John Bunyan - Adventure and adventurers - 1811 - 462 pages
...deserved fame ; Yet ev'n in transitory life's late day That mingles all my brown with sober gray, Kevere the man, whose Pilgrim marks the road, And guides the Progress of the soul to God. 'Twere well with most, if books that could engage Their childhood, pleas'd them at a riper age ,The... | |
 | Garnet Terry - 1812 - 408 pages
...which he considered Bedford to be entitled as the birthplace of Bunyan, he, for his part, still Revered the man whose Pilgrim marks the road, And guides the progress of the soul, to God ! — COWPE8. Mr. Richmond is, finally, an orthodox and judicious theologian, and a sensible and impressive... | |
 | Charles Buck - Bible - 1815 - 430 pages
...fame. T2 • Vet ev'n in transitory life's late day, That mingles all my brown with sober grey, Kcvere the man whose Pilgrim marks the road, And guides the Progress of the soul to God." COWTEB. This singular man was born at Elstow, within a mile of Bedford, in 1628. His father was a travelling... | |
 | William Cowper - English poetry - 1817 - 248 pages
...slighted word; 1 name thec not, lest so despis'da name Should move a sneer at thy deserved fame; K Yet ev'n in transitory life's late day, That mingles...road, And guides the PROGRESS of the soul to God. 'Twere well with most, if books, that could engage Their childhood, pleas'd them at a riper age; The... | |
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That mingles all my brown with sober gray, Revere the man, whose pilgrim marks the road, And guides the progress of the soul to God. 
