| William Ingraham Kip - 1846 - 372 páginas
...the men who conducted the canoe to leave him alone for half an hour, ' In the darkling wood, Amidst the cool and silence, he knelt down, And offered to the Mightiest solemn thanks And supplication.' " At the end of the half hour they went to seek him, and he was no more. The good missionary, discoverer... | |
| George Bancroft - 1846 - 528 páginas
...who conducted his canoe to leave him 3i3'i*' alone for a half hour, " in the darkling wood, Amidst the cool and silence, he knelt down, And offered to the Mightiest solemn thanks And supplication." At the end of the half-hour, they went to seek him, and he was no more. The good missionary, discoverer... | |
| John Wesley Monette - 1846 - 626 páginas
...harmony, rising up to heaven. " The groves were God.s first templos : ere man learn'd To IKw the shaft or lay the architrave. And spread the roof above them ; ere he framed The lofty vanlt to gather and roll back The sound of anthems, in the shady grove, Amid the tow.ring oaks, he... | |
| William Cullen Bryant - 1847 - 520 páginas
...The boundless visible smile of Him, To the veil of whose brow your lamps are dim.' : A FOREST 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 the darkling... | |
| George Barrell Cheever - 1847 - 456 páginas
...framed The lofty vault, to gather and roll back The sound of anthems, — in the darkling wood, Amidst the cool and silence, he knelt down And offered to the Mightiest, solemn thanks And supplication. For his simple heart Might not resist the sacred influences, That, from the stilly twilight of the... | |
| John Wesley Monette - 1848 - 642 páginas
...temples: ere man learn'd To hcw the sluift or lay the architrave, And spread the roof above them ; ero he framed The lofty vault to gather and roll back The sound of anthems, in the shady grove, Amid the tow'ring oaks, he raised his voice, And offer' d to the Mightiest solemn praise... | |
| Paschal Donaldson - 1848 - 322 páginas
...Here nature, unalloyed by art, dwelt in her rude simplicity. The wild untutored savages had hot yet learned • " To hew the shaft, and lay the architrave, And spread the roof above them — nor frame The lofty vault, to gather and roll back The sound of anthems." Here the aborigine reposed... | |
| William Holmes McGuffey - 1849 - 348 páginas
...principal. 115 El'-e-ments, n. in popular language, fire, nir, earth, and water. GOD'S FIRST TEMPLES. I. THE groves were God's first temples. Ere man learned...and lay the architrave, And spread the roof above them,—ere he framed Tered to the Mightiest solemn thanks pplication. For his simple heart ; not resist... | |
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