 | William Cowper - 1879 - عدد الصفحات: 688
...Where self engrosses all the thought, And groans and murmurs make it clear, Whatever else is loved, the Lord is not. The love of Thee flows just as much...cannot govern in one soul ; Then let self-love be dispossessed ; The Love of God deserves the whole, And will not dwell with so despised a guest. SEI.F-DIFFIDENCE.... | |
 | Massachusetts Historical Society - 1903 - عدد الصفحات: 596
...divine love in the same heart, so she would seek only the latter, — " The love of Thee flows juat as much As that of ebbing self subsides; Our hearts,...is such, Bear not the conflict of two rival tides." " All scenes alike engaging prove To souls impressed with sacred love; Where'er they dwell, they dwell... | |
 | Robert Alfred Vaughan - 1880 - عدد الصفحات: 436
...one of her verses in Cowper here, which exactly expresses what Mr. Willoughby was suggesting : — The love of Thee flows just as much As that of ebbing...is such, Bear not the conflict of two rival tides. Stay ; here is one I marked, which goes farther still. It is an allegorical poem. Love has bidden her... | |
 | William Cowper - 1882 - عدد الصفحات: 628
...Where self engrosses all the thought, And groans and murmurs make it clear, Whatever else is loved, the Lord is not. The love of Thee flows just as much...scantiness is such, Bear not the conflict of two rival tidui. Both cannot govern in one soul ; Then let self-love be dispossessed ; The Love of God deserves... | |
 | Walter Baxendale - 1882 - عدد الصفحات: 212
...satisfied without perfect loyalty of heart ; it aims at its own completeness." — George Eliot. " The love of Thee flows just as much As that of ebbing...is such) Bear not the conflict of two rival tides." Madame Guyon. " Of all that human was or is, , Alone unchanging is Thy love,' Thy love to us, and ours... | |
 | Edward Judson - 1883 - عدد الصفحات: 654
...wounded to death, still lives And the more it i.indulged, the stronger it becomes. But " The love of God flows just as much As that of ebbing self subsides ; Our hearts, their scantiness is such. Can not sustain two rival tides. Both can not govern in one soul ; Then let self-love be dispossessed... | |
 | Robert Alfred Vaughan - 1888 - عدد الصفحات: 404
...one of her verses in Cowper here, which exactly expresses what Mr. Willoughby was suggesting : — The love of Thee flows just as much As that of ebbing...is such, Bear not the conflict of two rival tides. Stay ; here is one I marked, which goes farther still. It is an allegorical poem. Love has bidden her... | |
 | William Cowper - 1889 - عدد الصفحات: 632
...Where Self engrosses all the thought, And groans and murmurs make it clear, Whatever else is loved, the Lord is not. The love of Thee flows just as much...cannot govern in one soul ; Then let self-love be dispossessed ; The love of God deserves the whole, And will not dwell with so despised a guest. 419... | |
 | Arthur Williamson - 1891 - عدد الصفحات: 164
...the central doctrine of the Ouietists. It was immortalised in Cowper's celebrated stanza : — ' ' The love of Thee flows just as much As that of ebbing...is such, Bear not the conflict of two rival tides." S. Bernard, though himself a mystic, repudiates the doctrine in these words : — " nescio si a quoquam... | |
 | 1892 - عدد الصفحات: 656
...satisfied without perfect loyalty of heart ; it aims at its own completeness." — George Eliot. " The love of Thee flows just as much As that of ebbing self subsides ; Oar hearts (their scantiness is such) Bear not the conflict of two rival tides." Madame (Juyon. "... | |
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Tis just that God should not be dear Where self engrosses all the thought, And groans and murmurs make it clear, Whatever else is loved, the Lord is not. The love of Thee flows just as much As that of ebbing self subsides ; Our hearts, their scantiness... 
