 Fountain of Mercy! whose pervading eye Can look within and read what passes : there, Accept my thoughts for thanks ! I have no words. My soul, o'erfraught with gratitude, rejects The aid of language — Lord!  The Works of Hannah More - Page 24by Hannah More - 1830Full view - About this book
 | Hannah More - 1844 - 578 pages
...F.Yii with a mother's fondness ; she who bare him (I told the princess) would not love him more. Joch. Fountain of Mercy ! whose pervading eye Can look within...rejects The aid of language — Lord ! behold my heart. Afir. Yes, thou shall pour into his infant mind The purest precepts of the purest faith. Joch. O! I... | |
 | Hannah More - 1847 - 460 pages
...E'en with a mother's fondness ; she who bare him (I told the Princess) would not love him more. Joch. Fountain of mercy ! whose pervading eye Can look within...infant mind The purest precepts of the purest faith. Joch. O ! I will fill his tender soul with virtue, And warm his bosom with devotion's flame ! Aid me,... | |
 | Sarah Josepha Buell Hale - 1855 - 610 pages
...Ethwald. Fountain of merey ! whose pervading eye Can look within and read what passes there, Aeeept my thoughts for thanks ; I have no words. My soul, o'erfraught with gratitude, rejeets The aid of language — Lord ! — behold my heart. Hannah More's Motes. О sad estate Of human... | |
 | Hannah More - 1856 - 630 pages
...E'en with a mother's fondness ; she who bare him (I told the princess) would not love him more. Joch. Fountain of Mercy ! whose pervading eye . Can look...rejects The aid of language — Lord ! behold my heart. Jtfir. Yes, thou shall pour into his infant mind The purest precepts of the purest faith. Joch. O !... | |
 | 1861 - 356 pages
...the hills, it descends to the plains, And sweetly distills in the dew and the rains. SIE E. GEANT. Fountain of mercy! whose pervading eye Can look within,...with gratitude, rejects The aid of language; Lord I behold my heart. HANNAH MORE. [See also PRAISE.] THE GRAVE. The Grave, dread thing! Men shiver when... | |
 | Henry George Bohn - 1867 - 752 pages
...Sometimes withhold in mercy what we ask, We should be rnin'd at our own request. H. More, Moiet. !• Fountain of mercy, whose pervading eye Can look within...rejects The aid of language— Lord ! behold my heart. 76. Ifo"1!* Ere on my bed my limbs I lay, God grant me grace my prayers to say ! O God, preserve my... | |
 | Andrew Jackson Davis - 1872 - 528 pages
...is a prayer perpetual. Are words natural to prayerful gratitude ? Hannah More hath well answered : " Fountain of Mercy ! Whose pervading eye Can look within...my thoughts for thanks : I have no words. My soul o'er- fraught with Gratitude, rejects The aid of Language — Lord ! behold my heart." When we pray... | |
 | Mr. Faversham, Mrs. Woodward, Author of Ellen Clinton - 1873 - 446 pages
...born of our earthly gains: Then will our God reveal His face, And cheer us with His heavenly grace. " Fountain of mercy! whose pervading eye Can look within...soul o'erfraught with gratitude rejects The aid of language—Lord, behold my heart." THE next few days passed away like a delicious dream. There was... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - 1875 - 794 pages
...Indebted and discharged. MILTON. Could he less expect Than glory and benediction, that is, thanks? MILTON. Fountain of mercy ! whose pervading eye Can look within...The aid of language : Lord ! — behold my heart. HANNAH MORE: Moses. Indeed you thank'd me : but a nobler gratitude Rose in her soul, for from that... | |
 | Robert Aitkin Bertram - 1877 - 766 pages
...Since in me, round me, everywhere Eternal strength and wisdom are. — Coleridge. Fountain of mercy I hey lean On Jesus' breast. Adelaide Anne Procter....poor, degraded Stage, Holds its warp'd mirror to lThe aid of language — Lord ! — behold my heart. Hannah Mure. Oh ! when, with fretted palm, we... | |
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