 | 1858 - 770 pages
...itself, each may be a fitting place for the holiwt worship. " The groves were God's first templet. Era man learned To hew the shaft, and lay the architrave,...wood, Amidst the cool and silence he knelt down, And oflVr'd to the Mightiest solemn thank* And supplication." But convenience, and other reasons which... | |
 | James Russell Lowell - 1826 - 520 pages
...consider one of his striking characteristics, and which constitutes one point of resemblance between bin and Cowper. We add, it is his habit of minute and...architrave, And spread the roof above them, — ere he trained The lofty vault, to gather and roll back The sound of anthems ; in the darkling wood, Amidst... | |
 | 1825 - 574 pages
...and honourable pride in having already done so much as we have done. THE LAY MONK. POETRY. A HYMN. The groves were God's first temples. Ere man learned...spread the roof above them, — ere he framed The lolly vault, to gather and roll back The sound of anthems ; in the darkling wood, Amidst the cool and... | |
 | 1825 - 490 pages
...and houourahle pride in having already done so much as we have done. THE LAY MONK. POETRY. A HYMN. The groves were God's first temples. Ere man learned...shaft, and lay the architrave, And spread the roof ahove them, — ere he framed The lofty vault, to gather and roll hack The sound of anthems ; in the... | |
 | 1826 - 192 pages
...stands forth unveiled with cloudless brow, On earth OWE SPIRIT or LIFE, in heaven OSE SUN. A HYMN. The groves were God's first temples. Ere man learned...to gather and roll back The sound of anthems ; in th e darkling wood, Amidst the cool and silence, he knelt down And offered to the Mightiest, solemn... | |
 | 1826 - 192 pages
...the long sought for goal of truth is won, Nature stands forth unveiled with cloudless brow, A HYMN. The groves were God's first temples. Ere man learned...and lay the architrave, And spread the roof above them,—ere he framed The lofty vault, to gather and roll back The sound of anthems ; in th e darkling... | |
 | 1831 - 442 pages
...be your wisdom!" Hymn on t/te Works of Nature. THE groves were God's first temples. Ere man learn'd To hew the shaft, and lay the architrave, And spread...wood, Amidst the cool and silence, he knelt down And offer'd to the Mightiest, solemn thanks And supplication. For his simple heart Might not resist the... | |
 | John Pierpont - 1831 - 294 pages
.... Lyre, sword, and flower,— farewell ' LESSON CXXIII. God's first Temples — A Hymn. — BRYANT. The lofty vault, to gather and roll back The sound...he knelt down And offered to the Mightiest solemn tnanks \nd supplication. For his simple heart Might not resist the sacred influences, That, from the... | |
 | Sir James Edward Alexander - 1833 - 352 pages
...the cool and silence, man knelt down, And offered to the Mightiest solemn thanks And supplication, ere he framed The lofty vault, to gather and roll back The sound of anthems !" We halted to eat our mid-day repast at a house, the mistress of which had a very sinister expression,... | |
 | Mann Butler - 1834 - 420 pages
...dying spirits of the former; or the wounded hearts of the latter. In the beautiful poetry of Bryant: " The groves were God's first temples. Ere man learned...Amidst the cool and silence, he knelt down, " And ofier'd to the Mightiest, solemn thanks " And supplication." Temples and their ministers, important... | |
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THE groves were God's first temples. Ere man learned To hew the shaft, and lay the architrave, And spread the roof above them — ere he framed The lofty vault, to gather and roll back The sound of anthems ; in the darkling wood, Amid the cool and silence,... 
