 | 1820 - 490 pages
...The choicest flowers to hive. Sweeter in all the strains of love. The language of thy turtle-dove, Pair'd to thy swelling chord ; Sweeter with every grace endued, The glory of thy gratitude, Retpir'd unto the Lord. Strong is the horse upon his speed ; Strong in pursuit the rapid glede, Which... | |
 | John Docwra Parry - Sussex (England) - 1833 - 486 pages
...than one contained in an eccentric but, in some parts, noble poem, Smart's " Song to David": — " Strong is the lion ! like a coal His eyeball ; like a bastion's mole His breast against his foes." Having had the honour of a visiting acquaintance with " His Majesty of Mysore,"... | |
 | Baptists - 1835 - 606 pages
...above, beneath, around, AH nature, without voice or sound, Replied, О Lord, thou. art ! « LXXVI. Strong is the lion — like a coal His eye-ball — like a bastion's mole His chest against the foes : Strong the gier-eagle on his sail, ' Strong against tide, th' enormous whale Emerges, as... | |
 | 1840 - 546 pages
...choicest flowers to hive. Sweeter, in all the strains of love, The language of thy turtle dove, Paired to thy swelling chord ; Sweeter, with every grace...thy gratitude Respired unto the Lord. Strong is the horse upon his speed ; Strong in pursuit the rapid glede Which makes at once his game : Strong the... | |
 | 1840 - 548 pages
...Strong the tall ostrich on the ground ; Strong through the turbulent profound Shoots Xiphias to his aim. Strong is the lion — like a coal His eye-ball — like a bastion's mola His chest against his foes : Strong the gyr-eagle on his sail, Strong against tide the enormous... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1844 - 746 pages
...choicest flowers to hive. Sweeter, in all the strains of love, The language of thy turtle-dove, Paired nt natures marvellously mixed, Connexion exquisite...Distingushed link in being's endless chain ! Midway horse upon his speed ; Strong in pursuit the rapid glede, Which makes at once his game : Strong the... | |
 | Robert Chambers - Authors, English - 1844 - 738 pages
...choicest flowers to hive. Sweeter, in all the strains of love, The language of thy turtle-dove, Paired to thy swelling chord ; Sweeter, with every grace...thy gratitude, Respired unto the Lord. Strong is the horse upon his speed ; Strong in pursuit the rapid glede, Which makes at once his game : Strong the... | |
 | John William Lester - English literature - 1847 - 376 pages
...choicest flowers to hive. Sweeter, in all the strains of love, The language of thy turtle-dove, Paired to thy swelling chord ; Sweeter, with every grace...thy gratitude, Respired unto the Lord. Strong is the horse upon his speed ; Strong in pursuit the rapid glede, Which makes at once his game : Strong the... | |
 | 1882 - 492 pages
...earth, but above all these " Sweeter in all the strains of love The language of thy turtle dove Paired to thy swelling chord ; Sweeter with every grace endued The glory of thy gratitude Kespired unto the LORD." He tells us that the horse, the ostrich, the lion, the eagle are strong, "... | |
 | American periodicals - 1848 - 600 pages
...choicest flowers to hive. Sweeter, in all the strains of love, The language of the turtle-dove. Paired to thy swelling chord ; Sweeter with every grace endued,...The glory of thy gratitude Respired unto the LORD.' :eu, After enumerating in the same manner many things which are ' strong,' ' beauteous,' and ' precious,'... | |
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Strong is the lion — like a coal His eyeball — like a bastion's mole His chest against the foes: Strong the gier-eagle on his sail, Strong against tide th' enormous whale Emerges, as he goes. 
