 Whose fire was kindled at the prophets' lamp, The time of rest, the promised Sabbath comes. Six thousand years of sorrow have well nigh Fulfilled their tardy and disastrous course Over a sinful world. And what remains Of this tempestuous state of human...  Poems - Strona 178autor: William Cowper - 1819Pełny widok - Informacje o książce
 | William Cowper - 1846 - Liczba stron: 310
...The time of rest, the promis'd sabbath, cocnes Six thousand years of .sorrow have weH nigh Fulfill'd their tardy and disastrous course Over a sinful world...merely as the working of a sea Before a calm that rocks itsclf'to rest; For He, whose car the winds are, and the elouds The dust that waits upon his sultry... | |
 | Mary Milner - 1852 - Liczba stron: 836
...past. Time, itself, is hastening to its end. " Six thousand years of sorrow have well nigh Fulfill'd their tardy and disastrous course Over a sinful world...state of human things Is merely as the working of the sea Before a calm, that rocks itself to rest." " The shades of evening will soon steal over us... | |
 | William Cowper - 1847 - Liczba stron: 556
...rest, the promised sabbath, comes, Six thousand years of sorrow have well-nigh FulfiU'd their tardy aud disastrous course Over a sinful world; and what remains...to rest : For He, whose car the winds are, and the clonds The dust that waits upon his sultry march, When sin hath moved him, and his wrath ss hot, Shall... | |
 | Edward Bishop Elliott - 1847 - Liczba stron: 638
...The time of rest, the promised sabbath comes. Six thousand years of sorrow have well nigh Fulfilled their tardy and disastrous course Over a sinful world...of a sea Before a calm, that rocks itself to rest." Winter tf'alk at Noon. ' My reference is, as before, to the Fjiglish Translation by Schlegel's devoted... | |
 | 1848 - Liczba stron: 592
...The time of rest, the promised Sabbath comes ! Six thousand years of sorrow have well-nigh Fulfilled their tardy and disastrous course Over a sinful world...of a sea Before a calm, that rocks itself to rest. — COWPER. AT what precise point we are in this world's history, the learned are far from being agreed.... | |
 | David Magie - 1847 - Liczba stron: 596
...to be increasingly the selected theatre of his own clustering wonders and prodigies of philanthropy. For he whose car the winds are, and the clouds The...dust that waits upon his sultry march, When sin hath moved him and his wrath is hot, Shall visit earth in mercy ! shall descend Propitious, in his chariot... | |
 | Charles Walton Sanders, Joshua Chase Sanders - 1848 - Liczba stron: 468
...time of rest, the promised Sabbath, comes. 2. Six thousand years of sorrow have well-nigh Fulfilled their tardy and disastrous course Over a sinful world...clouds, The dust that waits upon His sultry march, Shall visit Earth in mercy, — shall descend, Propitious, in His chariot paved with love, — And... | |
 | 1848 - Liczba stron: 600
...Divine beauty that must shortly be revealed. Ten thousand years of sorrow have well nigh Fulfilled their tardy and disastrous course Over a sinful world,...Before a calm, that rocks itself to rest. For He whose air the winds are, and the clouds The dust that waits upon His sultry march Shall visit earth in mercy,... | |
 | Charlotte Elizabeth Tonna - 1848 - Liczba stron: 608
...Divine beauty that must shortly be revealed. Ten thousand years of sorrow have well nigh Fulfilled their tardy and disastrous course Over a sinful world,...Before a calm, that rocks itself to rest. For He whose air the winds are, and the clouds The dust that waits upon His sultry march Shall visit earth in mercy,... | |
 | 1848 - Liczba stron: 916
...The time of rest, the promised Sabbath comes. Six thousand years of sorrow have well nigh Fulfilled their tardy and disastrous course, Over a sinful world....of a sea Before a calm, that rocks itself to rest." Co wren. The Church in the nation, and the nation in the Church, wiH, we believe, form one of the features,... | |
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