 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
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - 1878 - 788 pages
...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... | |
 | 1881 - 476 pages
...things invisible, and retreats from the busy mart to the solitary places for prayer and inspiration. Fountain of mercy ! whose pervading eye Can look within...rejects The aid of language — Lord, behold my heart. Spiritual things are spiritually discerned. Spirit approaches spirit only by sympathy of a spiritual... | |
 | Henry George Bohn - 1881 - 738 pages
...in merey what we ask, We should be ruin'd at our own request. H. More, Moset, 1. Fountain of merey, whose pervading eye Can look within and read what...rejects The aid of language — Lord ! behold my heart. 1b. Moses,$. Ere on my bed my limbs I lay, God grant me grace my prayers to say ! O God, preserve my... | |
 | Christian ethics - 1883 - 296 pages
...keep off mine enemies on every side." If you can't go to God with a broken heart, go to him for it. Fountain of mercy ! Whose pervading eye Can look within,...rejects The aid of language — Lord ! behold my heart. Prayer and provender hinder no man's journey. There is no time lost in sharpening the scythe. I must... | |
 | Perkins School for the Blind - 1890 - 1016 pages
...poems, seem to fit my case ad7iiirably, and to interpret my sentiments in an excellent manner : — " Accept my thoughts for thanks ; I have no words :...o'erfraught with gratitude, rejects The aid of language." This munificent additional gift, born as it was of your boundless benevolence, enhances the splendor... | |
 | 1891 - 556 pages
...breast, himself the priest, his heart the sacrifice, and the earth he treads on the altar. Jeremy Taylor. Fountain of mercy! whose pervading eye Can look within...Accept my thoughts for thanks; I have no words. My soul o'erfrauffht with gratitude, rejects The aid of language — Lord I — behold my heart. Hannah More.... | |
 | Perkins School for the Blind - 1892 - 1028 pages
...poems, seem to fit my case admirably, and to interpret my sentiments in an excellent manner : — " Accept my thoughts for thanks ; I have no words :...o'erfraught with gratitude, rejects The aid of language." This munificent additional gift, born as it was of your boundless benevolence, enhances the splendor... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - 1896 - 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...rejects The aid of language : Lord ! — behold my \\c-'HANNAH MORE: Afna. Indeed you thank'd me : but a nobler gratitmi' Rose in her soul, for from that... | |
 | George Alexander Kohut - 1913 - 728 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,... | |
 | Andrew J. Davis - 1997 - 522 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...have no words. My soul o'er-fraught with Gratitude, reject* The aid of Language — Lord I behold my heart." When we pray should we think of a Personified-God... | |
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