 | Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 546 pages
...rcsulv'd, With ucw-flush'd hopes, to run the giddy nun1. Father of light and life ! thou good Supreme I O, teach me what is good ! teach me Thyself! Save...virtue pure; Sacred, substantial, never-fading bliss ! The keener t •.!.>•> rise : and fuming dun From all the livid east, or piercing north, Thick... | |
 | Noah Webster - 1810 - 262 pages
...THE tJNITED STATES; THE USE OF SCHOOLS, BY NOAH WEBSTER, Esq. ^ Father of light and life ! thou Goc-D SUPREME ! . -. " O teach me what is good ! teach me thyself! " Save me from folly, vanity and sice ; i' From every low pursuit t and feed iny soul . " WitTi knowledge, conscious peace, and virtue... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 536 pages
...rc&olv'd, With new-flush'd hopes, to run the giddy round. Father of light and life ! thou good Supreme I O, teach me what is good ! teach me Thyself! Save me from folly, vanity, and vice, Kroni every low pursuit ! and feed my soul With knowledge, conscious peace, and virtue pure; Sacred,... | |
 | William Somervile - 1811 - 312 pages
...joyous Spring, look'd out and sinil'd. AN APOSTROPHE TO THE DEITY. FATHER of light and life, thou Good Supreme! O teach me what is good ! teach me Thyself!...virtue pure; sacred, substantial never-fading bliss ! DESCRIPTION OF A MAN PERISHING in the Snrnr. As thus the snows arise ; and foul and fierce, all Winter... | |
 | William Somervile - 1811 - 312 pages
...DEITY. FATHER of light and life, thou Good Supreme! O teach me what is good ! teach me Thyself! Gave me from folly, vanity, and vice, from every low pursuit!...virtue pure; sacred, substantial never-fading bliss! DESCRIPTION OF A MAN PERISHING in the Snow. As thus the snows arise ; and foul and fierce, all Winter... | |
 | James Thomson - 1811 - 182 pages
...resolv'd, With aew-flnsh'd hopes, to rnn the giddy ronnd. Father of light and life! thon Good Snpreme ! O teach me what is good ! teach me Thyself! Save me from folly, vanity, and vice, From every low pnrsnit ! and feed my sonl With knowledge, conscions peace, and virtne pnre ; Sacred, snbstantial,... | |
 | Benjamin Silliman - 1812 - 340 pages
...of our Lord 1792. Then follow these lines from his own Winter. Father of light and life, thou GOOD SUPREME ! O, teach me what is good ! teach me THYSELF ! Save me from folly, Vanity, and vice, From ev'ry low pursuit ! and feed my soul With knowledge, conscious peace, and virtue pure ; Sacred, substantial,... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1812 - 224 pages
...terrible when gone Gone they ne er go when past they haunt us still Father of light and life Thou good supreme O teach me what is good Teach me thyself Save me from folly vanity and vice From ev'ry low pursuit and feed my soul With knowledge conscious peace and virtue pure Sacred substantial... | |
 | Noah Webster - 1812 - 358 pages
...FOR THE USE 0¥ SCHOOLS. BY NOAH WEBSTER, ESQ. " Father of light and life ! thou GOOD SUPUTUIE ! " O teach me what is good ! teach me thyself! ',' Save me from folly, vanity and vice ; " From eyery low pursuit ! and feed my soul " With knowledge, conscious peace, and virtue pure ,; \ ''Sacred,... | |
 | James Thomson, Samuel Johnson - 1813 - 180 pages
...round. Father of light ami life ! thou Good Supremfc ! O, teach me what is good? teach me thyself! Pave me from folly, vanity, and vice, From every low pursuit...and feed my soul With knowledge, conscious peace, anil virtue pur* : Pacred, substantial, never-fading bliss ! The keener tempests rise : and, fuming... | |
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Father of light and life, thou Good Supreme ! O teach me what is good ; teach me Thyself! Save me from folly, vanity, and vice, From every low pursuit ; and feed my soul With knowledge, conscious peace, and virtue pure ; Sacred, substantial, never-fading... 
