 How modest, kindly, all-accomplish'd, wise, With what sublime repression of himself, And in what limits, and how tenderly ; Not swaying to this faction or to that; Not making his high place the lawless perch Of wing'd ambitions, nor a vantageground For...  A Vindication: Burns, Excise Officer and Poet - Page 12by John Sinton - 1897 - 64 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Arminianism - 1877 - 1004 pages
...faction or to that: Not making his high place the lawless perch Of wing'd ambition, nor a vantage-ground For pleasure, but through all this tract of years Wearing the white flower of a blameless life.' ORIGINAL POETRY. THE BURNING BUSH: BY THE BET. AH VINE. THE flocks are feeding round the hill : The... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - English literature - 1897 - 610 pages
...tortuous and bloodstained politics of Italy. ' Not swaying to this faction, or to that ; Not making his high place the lawless perch Of winged ambitions, nor a vantage ground For pleasure ; ' sings Tennyson. But this is precisely what the Popes of that period did. The Pontiffs who filled... | |
 | United States. Congress - 1863 - 52 pages
...faction or to that; Not making his high place the lawless perch Of winged ambitions, nor a vantage-ground For pleasure; but through all this tract of years Wearing the white flower of a blameless life, Before a thousand peering littlenesses. ******** Who dares foreshadow for an only son A lovelier life,... | |
 | Theology - 1867 - 396 pages
...making his high place the lawless perch Of winged ambitions nor a vantage-ground For pleasure; but thro' all this tract of years Wearing the white flower of a blameless life, Before a thousand peering littlenesses, In that fierce light which beats upon a throne, And blackens... | |
 | Hubert Ashton Holden - 1864 - 692 pages
...his high place the lawless perch of wing'd ambitions, nor a vantage-ground for pleasure; but thro' all this tract of years wearing the white flower of a blameless life, before a thousand peering littlenesses, in that fierce light which beats upon a throne, and blackens... | |
 | Cecil Frances Alexander - Children's poetry - 1865 - 342 pages
...swaying to this faction, or to that ; Not making his high place the lawless perch Of wing'd ambition, nor a vantage ground For pleasure ; but through all...years Wearing the white flower of a blameless life, Before a thousand peering littlenesses, In that fierce light which beats upon a throne, And blackens... | |
 | 1865 - 496 pages
...or to that; ,, Not making his high place the lawless perch Of winged ambitions, cor a vantage-ground For pleasure ; but through all this tract of years Wearing the white flower of tt blameless life Before a thousand peering littlenesses. Laborious for our people and our poor; Voice... | |
 | Cassell, ltd - 1865 - 652 pages
...hia high place the lawless perch Of wing'd ambitions, nor a vantage ground For pleasure; but thro' all this tract of years Wearing the white flower of a blameless life, Before a thousand peering littlenesses, In that fierce light which beats upou a throne, And blackens... | |
 | David Brainerd Williamson - Presidents - 1865 - 322 pages
...himself, And in what limits and how tenderly. Whose glory was redressing human wrongs ; Not making his high place the lawless perch Of winged ambitions, nor a vantage ground Of pleasure. But through all this tract of years, Wearing the white flower of a blameless life.' "... | |
 | Lord William Pitt Lennox - 1866 - 452 pages
...himself, And in what limits, and how tenderly ; Not swaying to this faction or to that; Not making his high place the lawless perch Of winged ambitions,...years Wearing the white flower of a blameless life, f Before a thousand peering littlenesses, In that fierce light which beats upon a throne." TUB END.... | |
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