| William Wordsworth - 1853 - 394 pages
...God, Thought was not ; in enjoyment it expired. No thanks he breathed, he proffered no request ; Rapt into still communion that transcends The imperfect...praise, , His mind was a thanksgiving to the power ;' NThat made him ; it was blessedness and love ! A Herdsman on the lonely mountain tops, Such intercourse... | |
| Edward Brooks Hall - 1853 - 460 pages
...proffered no request. Knpt into stilt communion that transcends The imperfect offices of prayer and prniso, His mind was a thanksgiving to the Power That made him ; it was blessedness and love.' " I have got Samor to read, because you recommend it, nnd nm shocked to find how unfit my mind has... | |
| Hannah Farnham Sawyer Lee - Sculptors - 1854 - 254 pages
...so soon followed by the other. To Mr. Lawrence the lines -of the poet might be truly applied : — " His mind was a thanksgiving to the Power That made him ; it was blessedness and love." lines that he wrote on seeing Greenough's Angel and Child ; we extract some of the most striking. Both... | |
| Thomas Treadwell Stone - Sermons, American - 1854 - 372 pages
...Music and song are dismissed ; words of prayer and of praise lie still, the feeling is too deep : — " His mind was a thanksgiving to the Power That made him ; it was blessedness and love ! " But even this, as I have said, is partial. It is lonely, rather than social ; contemplative, rather... | |
| Meta Lander - Congregational churches - 1854 - 364 pages
...Thought was not, — in enjoyment it expired. No thanks she breathed, she proffered no request, Rapt into still communion, that transcends The imperfect offices of prayer and praise " TEACHING.— MORBID TENDENCIES. " And wilt Thou hear the fevered heart To Thee in silence cry ? And,... | |
| Peter Bayne - Christian life - 1855 - 540 pages
...God, Thought was not ; in enjoyment it expired. No thanks he breathed, he proffer'd no request ; Rapt into still communion that transcends The imperfect...Power That made him ; it was blessedness and love." We do not find that Chalmers was at all smitten by fear ; the passionless demonstration of Edwards,... | |
| Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - 1855 - 318 pages
...expired. No thanks he breathed, he preferred no request ; Rapt into still communion that transeends The imperfect offices of prayer and praise, His mind...Power That made him ; it was blessedness and love ! " — Excursim, B. i. P. 33. The silver brook flowing into golden streamt. — This may allude to... | |
| Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - 1856 - 344 pages
...God, Thought was not; in enjoyment it expired. No thanks he breathed, he preferred no request; Rapt into still communion, that transcends The imperfect...Power That made him ; it was blessedness and love! " (Excursion, BI) 49. The silver brook fawing into golden streams.] — This may allude to the gradual... | |
| Thomas Treadwell Stone - Sermons, American - 1856 - 418 pages
...elevation of the whole being like what Wordsworth ascribes to his youth growing among the mountains : — " His mind was a thanksgiving to the Power That made him ; it was blessedness and lore." This may not hinder us, however, from the endeavor to gather up into thought, and to put into... | |
| Great Britain - 1857 - 496 pages
...God, Thought was not ; in enjoyment it expired. No thanks he breathed, he proffered no request ; Rapt into still communion that transcends The imperfect...power That made him ; it was blessedness and love."* It is the mediation of Nature, her prophetic function, to convey to the soul the sentiment of God,... | |
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