 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1810 - 546 pages
...thee Ix>rd alone of man, When thousand worlds are round: Li t not this weak, unknowing baud Presume thy bolts to throw. And deal damnation round the land....am right, thy grace impart, Still in the right to stay : If I am wrong, oh teach my heart To find that better way. Save me alike from foolish pride,... | |
 | Thomas Janes - 1810 - 336 pages
...Wht-u thousand worlds are round. Let not this weak unknowing hand Presume thy bolts to throw, And,deal damnation round the land, On each I judge thy foe....am right, thy grace impart, Still in the right to stay : If I am wrong, O teach my heart To find thatb«tter way ! Save me alike from foolish pride,... | |
 | Arabella Argus - Conduct of life - 1810 - 248 pages
...my sincerity. I have many letters to answer, I must hasten tp the performance of my duty. CHAP. V. " If I am right, thy grace impart Still in the right to stay t If I am wrong, Oh teach my heart To find that better Way." / IN conformity to my avowed love... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1812 - 348 pages
...thee Lord alone of man, When thousand worlds are round : Let not this weak, unknowing hand 2 j Presume thy bolts to throw, And deal damnation round the land,...am right, thy grace impart, Still in the right to stay ; jO If I am wrong, oh teach my heart To find that better way ! Save me alike from foolish pride,... | |
 | Lindley Murray - Readers - 1812 - 378 pages
...think thee Lord alone of man, When thousand worlds are round. Let not this weak, unknowing hand Presume thy bolts to throw; And deal damnation round the land,...right, thy grace impart, . • Still in the right to stay ; V If I am wrong, oh teach my heart To find that better way ! Save me alike from foolish pride,... | |
 | Monasticism and religious orders - 1927 - 628 pages
...daily implored divine light and assistance. Untiringly she repeated the following words of the poet: If I am right, thy grace impart Still in the right to stay; If I am wrong, teach, oh, teach my heart To find the better way. Never did she fail to correspond... | |
 | Caroline Miles Hill - Religious poetry, English - 1928 - 888 pages
...think thee Lord alone of man, When thousand worlds are round. Let not this weak, unknowing hand Presume thy bolts to throw, And deal damnation round the land...I am right, thy grace impart Still in the right to stay; If I am wrong, Oh, teach my heart To find the better way ! Save me alike from foolish pride,... | |
 | American essays - 1877 - 794 pages
...Don't you remember what that verse says? — 11 Let not thle weak, unknowing hand Presume thy BOLSTER [bolts to] throw, And deal damnation round the land On each I judge thy foe." Such misconceptions, which it is safe to say none of the interesting little race escape, suggest the... | |
 | English periodicals - 1925 - 1072 pages
...I In every Age, In every clime, adored. By Saint, by Savage, and by Sage, Jehovah, Jove, or Lord ! If I am right, thy grace impart, Still in the right to stay : If I am wrong, oh teach my heart To find that better way. To thee, whose Temple is all Space,... | |
 | Alexander Pope - Poetry - 1963 - 884 pages
...Thee Lord alone of Man, When thousand Worlds are round. Let not this weak, unknowing hand 25 Presume Thy Bolts to throw, And deal Damnation round the land, On each I judge thy Foe. If I am right, oh teach my heart Still in the right to stay; 30 Composed in 1715, and subsequently revised for use... | |
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Let not this weak, unknowing hand Presume thy bolts to throw, And deal damnation round the land On each I judge thy foe. If I am right, thy grace impart, Still in the right to stay; If I am wrong, oh teach my heart To find that better way... 
