 | 1803 - 444 pages
...satisfaction of his admirers ; In the year of our Lord 1792. • Father of ItRht and life ! thou ^ood supreme * O teach me what is good ! teach me thyself.' Save me from folly, vanity, and vice, From every low pursuit, and feed my soul With knowledge, conscious peace, and virtue pure. Sacred, substantial,... | |
 | James Thomson - 1803 - 186 pages
...resolv'd, With uew.flusli'd hopes, to iiui the giddy round' Father of light and life ! thou Good Supreme f O teach me what is good! teach me Thyself! Save me from folly, vanity, and vice, From every low pursuit! and feed my soul With knowledge, conscious peace, and virtue pure; Sacred, suhstantial,... | |
 | James Thomson - 1803 - 268 pages
...past , And broken slum hers , rises still resolv'd , With new-flush 'd hopes , to run the giddy round Father of light and life ! thou GOOD SUPREME! O teach me what is good ! teach me THYSEU! Save me from folly, vanity, and vice, From every low pursuit ! and feed my soul With knowledge... | |
 | James Thomson, John Aikin - 1804 - 232 pages
...past, And broken slumbers, rises still resolv'd, 215 With new-flush'd hopes, to run the giddy round. Father of Light and Life ! thou Good Supreme ! O teach...Thyself ! Save me from Folly, Vanity, and Vice, From every low pursuit ! and feed my soul 220 With knowledge, conscious peace, and virtue pure ; Sacred,... | |
 | Sir Egerton Brydges - Bibliography - 1805 - 908 pages
...visions past. And broken slumbers, rises, still resolv'd With new-flush'd hopes, to run your giddy round. Father of light and life ! thou- Good Supreme ! O...thyself! Save me from folly, vanity, and vice, From every low pursuit ! and feed my soul With knowledge, conscious peace, and virtue pure, Sacred, substantial,... | |
 | James Thomson - 1806 - 242 pages
...past, And broken slumbers, rises still resolv'd, 215 With new-ilush'd hopes, to run the giddy round. FATHER of Light and Life, Thou Good Supreme! O teach...Thyself! Save me from folly, vanity, and vice, From every low pursuit! and feed my soul 220 With knowledge, conscious peace, and virtue pure; Sacred, substantial,... | |
 | Select collection - Epitaphs - 1806 - 262 pages
...denoted the place of his interment, For the satisfaction of his admirers, In the year of our Lord, ] 792. Father of light and life ! thou good supreme ! O teach me what is good ! teaalvme'ikt/self! Save me from folly, vanity, and vice, From ev'ry low pursuit ! and feed my eoui... | |
 | John Bew - 1807 - 408 pages
...our Lord 1792." Underneath is this quotation from his " Winter:" Father of Light and Life, Thou God Supreme ! O, teach me what is good ! teach me Thyself! Save me from folly, vanity, and vice, From every low pursuit ! and feed my soul With knowledge, conscious peace, and virtue pure ; Sacred, substantial,... | |
 | Lindley Murray - English language - 1808 - 178 pages
...while here How tasteless and how terrible when gone Gone they ne er go when past they haunt us still Father of light and life Thou good supreme O teach...my Soul With knowledge conscious peace and virtue piite Sacred substantial never fading bliss If I am right thy grace impart Still in the right to stay... | |
 | James Thomson, Thomas Park - 1808 - 444 pages
...And broken slumbers, rises still resolv'd,.. ; , . With new-fiush'd hopes, to ran the giddy round, Father of light and life! thou Good Supreme ' O teach...Thyself! Save me from folly, vanity, and vice, From every low pursuit! and feed my sonl With knowledge, conscious peace, and virtue pure , Sacred, substantial,... | |
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Father of light and life, thou Good Supreme ! O teach me what is good ; teach me Thyself! Save me from folly, vanity, and vice, From every low pursuit; and feed my soul With knowledge, conscious peace, and virtue pure; Sacred, substantial, never-fading... 
