 | John Dryden - 1808 - 500 pages
...Solemnized there thy birth, and kept thy holiday above. IV. O gracious God ! how far have we Prophaned thy heavenly gift of poesy ? Made prostitute and profligate...above For tongues of angels, and for hymns of love ? O wretched we ! why were we hurried down This lubrique and adulterate age, (Nay, added fat pollutions... | |
 | John Dryden, Walter Scott - 1808 - 506 pages
...Solemnized there thy birth, and kept thy holiday above. IV. O gracious God ! how far have we Prophaned thy heavenly gift of poesy ? Made prostitute and profligate...above For tongues of angels, and for hymns of love ? O wretched we ! why were we hurried down This lubrique and adulterate age, (Nay, added fat pollutions... | |
 | John Dryden, Walter Scott - 1821 - 504 pages
...Solemnized there thy birth, and kept thy holiday above. IV. O gracious God ! how far have we Prophaned thy heavenly gift of poesy ! Made prostitute and profligate...each obscene and impious use, Whose harmony was first ordain'd above For tongues of angels, and for hymns of love ! O wretched we ! why were we hurried down... | |
 | British poets - 1822 - 292 pages
...renew : For all thy bless'd fraternity of love [above. Solemnized there thy birth, and kept thy holiday O gracious God! how far have we Profaned thy heavenly...each obscene and impious use, Whose harmony was first ordain'd above For tongues of angels, and for hymns of lore ! O wretched we ! why were we hurried down... | |
 | 1825 - 504 pages
...excellence. With how much deeper feeling, might he have adopted the words of a less gifted poet — O gracious God ! how far have we Profaned thy heavenly gift of Poesy ? Made prostitute and piofligate the Muse, Debased to each obscene and impious use. Before the date of the letter just quoted,... | |
 | Willard Phillips - 1826 - 194 pages
...excellence. With how much deeper feeling, might he have adopted the words of a less gifted poet — O gracious God ! how far have we Profaned thy heavenly gift of Poesy ? Made prostitute and profligate tbe Muse, Debased to each obscene and impious use. Before the date of the letter just quoted, he had... | |
 | Thomas Curtis - 1829 - 804 pages
...unhallowed. Milton. Far hence bu souls profane , The Sibyl cried, and from the grove abstain. Dryden. How far have we Profaned thy heavenly gift of poesy...Made prostitute and profligate the muse, Debased. /* You can banish from thence scurrility and profineness, and restrain the licentious insolence of... | |
 | Leonard Withington - 1836 - 278 pages
...intrepidity—I FEAR NOT GOD, NEITHER REGARD MAN. THE PURITAN. No. 58. O gracious God ! how far have we Prophaned thy heavenly gift of poesy ? Made prostitute and profligate...above, For tongues of angels and for hymns of love. Drydeit. A SOUND and healthful literature is so necessary to the good morals of a country, that it... | |
 | Leonard Withington - 1836 - 532 pages
...! how far have we Prophanetl thy heavenly gift of poesy ? Made prostitute and profligate the rouse, Debased to each obscene and impious use, Whose harmony...above, For tongues of angels and for hymns of love. Dryden. A SOUND and healthful literature is so necessary to the good morals of a country, that it should... | |
 | Leonard Withington - 1836 - 274 pages
...far have we Prophaned thy heavenly gift of poesy ? Made prostitute and profligate the muse, Dehased to each obscene and impious use, Whose harmony was...above, For tongues of angels and for hymns of love. Drydm. A SOUND and healthful literature is so necessary to the good morals of a country, that it should... | |
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O gracious God! how far have we Profaned thy heavenly gift of Poesy! Made prostitute and profligate the Muse, Debased to each obscene and impious use, Whose harmony was first ordained above, For tongues of angels and for hymns of love! 
