 | Clara Lucas Balfour - English literature - 1852 - 458 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 ! " Nothing can well be more beautiful, either in description or lyric flow, than... | |
 | Thomas Campbell, Samuel Carter Hall, Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton, Theodore Edward Hook, Thomas Hood, William Harrison Ainsworth, William Ainsworth - 1852 - 524 pages
...conqueror ; self-respecting she is, but not selfabsorbed ; her life is the realising of the prayer, Give unto me, made lowly wise, The spirit of self-sacrifice ; The confidence of reason give ! In this respect the tone of the book is more healthy and satisfactory than that of " Shirley," which... | |
 | English literature - 1852 - 536 pages
...conqueror ; self-respecting she is, but not selfabsorbed ; her life is the realising of the prayer, Give unto me, made lowly wise, The spirit of self-sacrifice ; The confidence of reason give! In this respect the tone of the book is more healthy and satisfactory than that of " Shirley," which... | |
 | William Wordsworth - English poetry - 1853 - 300 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! > 231 CHARACTER OF THE HAPPY WARRIOR. WHO is the happy Warrior ? Who is he That... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1853 - 560 pages
...subservient to one spirit, concludes his address to the power of duty in the following words : 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 S* This reply to Mathetes was written by Mr. Wordsworth.- — Ed, THE FRIEND, ESSAY... | |
 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - Religious poetry, American - 1853 - 604 pages
...most ancient heavens, through Thee, are fresh and strong. To humbler functions, awful Power ! I cull thee : I myself commend Unto thy guidance from this...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... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1853 - 566 pages
...address to the power of duty in the following words : To humbler functions, awful power ! I call thce : I myself commend Unto thy guidance from this hour...confidence of reason give, And in the light of truth thy bondman let me live !* This reply to Mathetes was written by Mr. Wordsworth. — Ed. THE FRIEND, ESSAY... | |
 | H. C. Foster - English poetry - 1853 - 378 pages
...the most ancient heavens, through thee, are fresh and strong. Unto thy guidance, from this hour ; O, let my weakness have an end ! Give unto me, made lowly...confidence of reason give ; And in the light of truth thy bondman let me live ! I THE SOUL'S RECUPERATIVE ENERGIES. As men from men Do, in the constitution of... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1854 - 568 pages
...concludes his address to the power of duty in the following words : To humbler functions, awful power I I call thee : I myself commend Unto thy guidance from...confidence of reason give, And in the light of truth thy bondman let me lire !* This reply to Mathetes was written by Mr. Wordsworth. — Ed. THE FRIEND, ESSAY... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1854 - 776 pages
...subservient to one spirit, concludes In < address to the power of Duty in the followuig words : To humbler functions, awful Power ! I call thee : I myself commend...wise The spirit of self-sacrifice ; The confidence of realm gne! MISCELLANEOUS POEMS. EPISTLE TO SIR GEORGE ROWLAND BEAUMONT, BART. FROM THE SOUTH-WEST COABT... | |
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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. 
