 How fleet is a glance of the mind ! Compared with the speed of its flight, The tempest itself lags behind, And the swift-winged arrows of light. When I think of my own native land, In a moment I seem to be there ; But alas ! recollection at hand Soon...  Poems, with a memoir of the author - الصفحة 160بواسطة William Cowper - 1847عرض كامل - لمحة عن هذا الكتاب
 | Samuel Carter Hall - 1837 - عدد الصفحات: 448
...swift-winged arrows of light. When I think of my own native land, In a moment I seem to be there ; But alas ! recollection at hand Soon hurries me back to...affliction a grace, And reconciles man to his lot. science has applied them. Thus, when the Botanic Queen reminds her gnomes that they have seen subterranean... | |
 | Samuel Carter Hall - 1837 - عدد الصفحات: 438
...swift-winged arrows of light. When I think of my own native land, In a moment I seem to be there ; But alas ! recollection at hand Soon hurries me back to...affliction a grace, And reconciles man to his lot. GG luuu uiouier, nounsmng ner inlaiit at tlie cost or ner own me; — anu me «w>n- w illustrated by... | |
 | William Cowper - 1837 - عدد الصفحات: 534
...swift-winged arrows of light. When I think of my own native land, In a moment I seem to be there ; But alas ! recollection at hand Soon hurries me back to...affliction a grace, And reconciles man to his lot. OK THE PROMOTION OF EDWARD THURLOW, ESQ. TO THE LORD HIGH CHANCELLORSHIP OF ENGLAND ROUND Thurlow's... | |
 | John Howell - 1837 - عدد الصفحات: 154
...to be there ; But alas ! recollection at hand Soon hurries me back to despair. But the sea-fowl has gone to her nest, The beast is laid down in his lair...affliction a grace, And reconciles man to his lot. COWPER. THE END. !ii a OF y^asai OF TOM STARBOARD. NKW-YORK : tUHLON BAT, 374 PE1KL-STEEET. 183T. HISTORY... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1837 - عدد الصفحات: 276
...The tempest itself lags behind, In a moment I seem to be there But, alas ! recollection at hand .,_ Soon hurries me back to despair. But the sea-fowl...down in his lair ; Even here is a season of rest, And mercy—encouraging thought! Gives even affliction a grace, . .tl And I to iny cabin repair. There's... | |
 | Prideaux John Selby, William Jardine - 1837 - عدد الصفحات: 664
...in the existence of a merciful protecting Providence, in the desert and every where, — ' There is mercy in every place : And mercy, encouraging thought...affliction a grace, And reconciles man to his lot.' 1 can go no farther with you ; but, standing relatively as I do, in this sad business, let me now for... | |
 | Jesse Olney - 1838 - عدد الصفحات: 346
...I think of my own native land, In a moment I seem to be there ; But, alas ! recollection at hand 7. But the sea-fowl is gone to her nest, The beast is...affliction a grace, And reconciles man to his lot. LESSON CXXXI. The Hczjuii- — PARNELL. 1. FAR in a wild, unknown to public view, From youth to age... | |
 | John Angell James - 1859 - عدد الصفحات: 196
...winged arrows of light. " When I tlvink of my own native land, In a moment I seem to be there : But alas ! recollection at hand Soon hurries me back to...here is a season of rest, And I to my cabin repair. " There is mercy in every place, And mercy, encouraging thought ! Gives even affliction a grace, And... | |
 | William Stanley Braithwaite - 1909 - عدد الصفحات: 1334
...tempest itself lags behind, And the swift-winged arrows of light. When I think of my own native land, But alas ! recollection at hand Soon hurries me back to...his lair, Even here is a season of rest, And I to rrty cabin repair. There's mercy in every place, And mercy, encouraging thought! Gives even affliction... | |
 | 1910 - عدد الصفحات: 540
...swift-winged arrows of light. When I think of my own native land In a moment I seem to be there; But alas ! recollection at hand Soon hurries me back to...affliction a grace And reconciles man to his lot. 318 To MARY UNWIN MARY ! I want a lyre with other strings, Such aid from heaven as some have feign'd... | |
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