 | James Martineau - 1874 - Liczba stron: 786
...stubborn will, We blindly shun the latent good, And grasp the specious ill ; BEWARE LEST YE FORGET GOD. 4 Not to my wish, but to my want, Do thou thy gifts supply ; The good unasked in mercy grant; The ill, though asked, deny. JAMES MERRICK, 1763. 4 1 7 .... | |
 | Thomas Griffith - 1875 - Liczba stron: 478
...885. And Plato, Alcib. ii. 142 e. :— "i\iiin SISov, TO K JewA Kai {vxpidpots djraX^feu' jceXefct." " Not to my wish, but to my want, Do Thou Thy gifts apply : Unasked, what good Thou knowest, grant ; What ill, though asked, deny." And Xenoph., Mem. i. 8. 1.... | |
 | Balliol College (University of Oxford) - 1877 - Liczba stron: 148
...subdued, Too oft, with stubborn will, We blindly shun the latent good, And grasp the specious ill ; Not to my wish, but to my want, Do Thou Thy gifts supply; The good unasked in mercy grant; The ill, though asked, deny. HAWE1S, THOMAS. (1792.) 77 O... | |
 | Evangelical union - 1878 - Liczba stron: 486
...subdued, Since oft my stubborn will Preposterous shuns the latent good, And grasps the specious ill, 4 Not to my wish, but to my want, Do thou thy gifts supply ; Unasked, what good thou knowest, grant; What ill, though asked, deny. James Merrick. 1705.... | |
 | Gleanings - 1882 - Liczba stron: 438
...to meet the Lord!" r ' •>:-:/.' • ' •7"-T i " Sinners, professors, hear, REV. JOHN NEWTON. 127 Not to my wish, but to my want, Do thou Thy gifts apply ; Unasked, what good Thou knowest, grant ; What ill, though asked, deny. ;e," i: |lefi. f Born 1725.... | |
 | Thomas Benson Pollock - 1882 - Liczba stron: 438
...is good, though I fail to ask it : deny me what is evil, though I ask it : give me Thy Holy Spirit. Not to my wish, but to my want, Do Thou Thy gifts apply; The good unasked in mercy grant, The ill, though asked, deny. " When ye were the servants of sin, ye... | |
 | Samuel Willoughby Duffield - 1886 - Liczba stron: 706
...of which the present first line is from the fifth. The concluding quatrain is the famous stanza : " Not to my wish, but to my want. Do thou thy gifts apply : Unask'd, what good thou knowcst, grant ; What ill, tho1 ask'd, deny." The rare little book which contains this piece is possessed,... | |
 | John Hunter - 1889 - Liczba stron: 712
...subdued, Too oft, with stubborn will, We blindly shun the latent good, And grasp the specious ill ; 4. Not to my wish, but to my want, Do thou thy gifts supply ; The good unasked in mercy grant ; The ill, though asked, deny. James Merriek, 1763. 386. The... | |
 | 1894 - Liczba stron: 430
...is good, though I fail to ask it : deny me what is evil, though I ask it : give me Thy Holy Spirit. Not to my wish, but to my want, Do Thou Thy gifts apply ; The good unasked in mercy grant, The ill, though asked, deny. " When ye were the senants of sin,... | |
 | Harvard University - 1895 - Liczba stron: 496
...subdued, Since oft my stubborn will Preposterous shuns the latent good, And grasps the specious ill, Not to my wish, but to my want, Do thou thy gifts apply ; Unasked, what good thou knowest grant, What ill, though asked, deny. JAMES MERRICK, 1720-1769. ST.... | |
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Not to my wish, but to my want, Do thou thy gifts apply .. Unask'd, what good thou knowest, grant ; What ill, though ask'd, deny. 
