 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - American poetry - 1849 - 578 pages
...the stars from wrong ; And the most ancient heavens, through Thee, are fresh and strong. To humbler functions, awful Power ! I call thee : I myself commend...confidence of reason give ; And in the light of truth thy bondman let me live ! THE LABORER S NOONDAY HYMN. UP to the throne of God is borne The voice of praise... | |
 | Manchester district Sunday school assoc - 1855 - 800 pages
...of God into my bosom steal. 129 130 GEORGE MULLER, THE ORPHAN'S FRIEND. (Continued from page 105.) Oh let my weakness have an end ! Give unto me, made lowly wise, The spirit of self-sacrifice. — Wordsworth. The good begun by thee shall onward flow In many a branching sueam, and wider grow.... | |
 | Nathan Welby Fiske - Sermons - 1850 - 414 pages
...seventh stanza of Wordsworth's Ode to Duty — a stanza quoted by Coleridge with high approbation : " I myself commend Unto thy guidance from this hour...confidence of reason give ; And in the light of truth thy Bondman let me live." How perfectly natural to the Christian heart is this prayer for an entire subjection... | |
 | Heman Humphrey - College teachers - 1850 - 414 pages
...stanza quoted by Coleridge with high approbation : " I myself commend Unto thy guidance from this honr ; Oh, let my weakness have an end ; Give unto me, made...confidence of reason give ; And in the light of truth thy Bondman let me live." How perfectly natural to the Christian heart is this prayer for an entire subjection... | |
 | Christopher Wordsworth - 1851 - 492 pages
...subservient to one spirit, concludes his address to the power of Duty in the following words: 1 ' To humbler functions, awful Power! I call thee; I myself commend...confidence of Reason give ; And in the light of truth thy bondman let me live!' MM'" Twenty years after this Essay was written, Mr. Wordsworth thus briefly adverted... | |
 | Edwin Paxton Hood - 1851 - 224 pages
...Poet of our age has apostrophised Duty in words which we all should make our own : — " To humble functions, awful Power, I call thee. I myself commend...confidence of reason give, And in the light of Truth thy bondsman let me live." It is a beautiful arrangement in the mental and moral economy of our nature... | |
 | Christopher Wordsworth - 1851 - 488 pages
...subservient to one spirit, concludes his address to the power of Duty in the following words : x ' To humbler functions, awful Power ! I call thee ; I myself commend...end ! Give unto me, made lowly wise, The spirit of self- sacrifice ; The confidence of Reason give ; And in the light of truth thy bondman let me live!'... | |
 | William Wordsworth - English poetry - 1851 - 750 pages
...his address to the power of Duty in the following words : To humbler functions, awful Power ! I rail thee : I myself commend Unto thy guidance from this...me, made lowly wise The spirit of self-sacrifice; T/ie confidence of roam give ! And in the tight of Truth thy Bondman let me live '" — W. W COLEMDOK... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1851 - 748 pages
...address to the power of Duly in the following words: To humbler functions, awful Power! I call 1 1 IT : se dwelling is the light of setting suns, And the...and the living air, And the blue sky, and in the min Tho spirit of self-sacrifice; The confidence of return give! And in the ligtil of Truth thy Bondman... | |
 | Elizabeth Caroline Grey - 1851 - 266 pages
...slumbering energies, she would be herself again; the path of duty must be performed, and that alone. Duty, " I call thee: I myself commend Unto thy guidance from this hour; Oh! let my weakness have an end \ Giro unto me, made lowly wise, The spirit of self-sacrifice; The confidence of reason give; And in... | |
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Give unto me, made lowly wise, The spirit of self-sacrifice ; The confidence of reason give ; And in the light of truth thy bondman let me live ! 1805. 
