 What though the spicy breezes Blow soft o'er Ceylon's isle, Though every prospect pleases, And only man is vile : In vain with lavish kindness The gifts of God are strown ; The heathen, in his blindness, Bows down to wood and stone...  Chips from a German Workshop - Page 247by Friedrich Max Müller - 1875Full view - About this book
 | Eli Smith - Christianity and other religions - 1833 - 238 pages
...no country on earth 3 25 in the prosperity and happiness of its inhabitants*. But when - " only ipan is vile, In vain with lavish kindness The gifts of God are strown." Egypt, the granary of the surrounding regions in the time of Jacob, is still, owing to the fertilizing... | |
 | Isaac Watts, Samuel Worcester, Samuel Melancthon Worcester - Bible - 1834 - 760 pages
...land from error's chain. p 2 What though the spicy breezes Blow soft o er Ceylon's isle, Though every prospect pleases, And only man is vile ; In vain with...lavish kindness The gifts of God are strown ; The heathen, in his blindness, Bows down to wood and stone. — 3 Shall we, whose souls are lighted With... | |
 | Thomas Russell - Bible - 1834 - 612 pages
...land from error's chain. 2 What though the spicy breezes Blow soft o'er Ceylon's isle; Though every prospect pleases, And only man is vile; In vain with...lavish kindness The gifts of God are strown; — The heathen in his blindness, Bows down to wood and stone. 3 Shall we, whose souls are lighted With wisdom... | |
 | Lowell Mason - Bible - 1834 - 582 pages
...from error's chain. pi I 2 What though the spicy breezes Blow soft o'er Ceylon's isle — Though every prospect pleases, And only man is vile? — In vain,...lavish kindness, The gifts of God are strown; The heathen, in his blindness, Bows down to wood and stone. 3 Shall we, whose souls are lighted By wisdom... | |
 | Edward Davies (of Kingswinford.) - Hymns, English - 1834 - 266 pages
...Their land from error's chain. What though the spicy breezes Blow soft o'er Ceylon's isle, Though every prospect pleases, And only man is vile ; In vain with...lavish kindness The gifts of God are strown ; The heathen, in his blindness, Bows down to wood and stone. 3 Shall we, whose souls are lighted With wisdom... | |
 | 1834 - 122 pages
...Their land from error's chain. What^though the spicy breezes Blow soft o'er Ceyion's isle, Though every prospect pleases, And only man is vile : In vain with lavish kindness The gifts of God are strown, The heathen, in his blindness, Bows down to wood and stone. Can we, whose souls are lighted With wisdom... | |
 | Hymns, English - 1834 - 320 pages
...land from error's cham. 2 What though the spicy breezes Blow soft o'er Ceylon's isle — Though every prospect pleases, And only man is vile ? — "In vain,...lavish kindness, The gifts of God are strown ; The heathen, in his blindness, Bows down to wood and stone. 3 Shall we, whose souls are lighted By wisdom... | |
 | Hymns - 1834 - 294 pages
...land from error's drain. What, though the spicy breezes Blow soft o'er Ceylon's isle ; Though every prospect pleases, And only man is vile ; In vain, with lavish kindness, The gifts of God are strewn, The heathen, in their blindness, Bow down to wood and stone. Shall we, whose souls are lighted... | |
 | James Clarke Franks - Hymns, English - 1834 - 572 pages
...land from error's chain. 2 What though the spicy breezes Blow soft o'er Geyloii'a is4e> Though every prospect pleases. And only man Is vile! In vain with lavish kindness The gifts of God are strowft; The Heathen in his blindness Bows down to wood and stone. 3 Shall we, whose soilIS are lighted... | |
 | Felicia Dorothea Browne Hemans - 1834 - 512 pages
...land from error's chain ! What though the spicy breezes Blow soft o'er Ceylon's isle, Though every prospect pleases, And only man is vile : In vain with lavish kindness The gifU of God arc strown, The heathen, in his blindness, Bows down to wood and stone ! Can we, whose... | |
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