 He looks abroad into the varied field Of Nature, and though poor perhaps, compared With those whose mansions glitter in his sight, Calls the delightful scenery all his own. His are the mountains, and the valleys his, And the resplendent rivers. — His...  The Poems of William Cowper - Page 332by William Cowper - 1905 - 741 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Robert Vaughan - Christian life - 1832 - 450 pages
...scenery all his own. His are the mountains, and the vallies his, And the resplendent rivers. His t' enjoy With a propriety that none can feel, But who...eye, And smiling say—" My Father made them all." Are they not his by a peculiar right, And by an emphasis of interest his, Whose eye they fill with... | |
 | Jared Bell - Theology, Practical - 1832 - 226 pages
...scenery all his own. His are the mountains, and the valleys his, And the resplendent rivers ; his t' enjoy, With a propriety, that none can feel, But who,...eye, And smiling, say — 'My Father made them all !' " How tasteless, compared with the calm delights of religion, are the sickly enjoyments of the sensualist... | |
 | Charles Samuel Stewart - Islands of the Pacific - 1833 - 336 pages
...field Of nature, and though poor perhaps, compared With those whose mansions glitter in his sight, Calls the delightful scenery all his own. His are...unpresumptuous eye, And smiling say, "My Father made them all!" There is a public garden in the city, open to the bay on the eastern side, and in full view of the... | |
 | Thomas Taylor - 1833 - 354 pages
...though poor, perhaps, compared With those whose mansions glitter in his sight, Calls the delighful scenery all his own: His are the mountains, and the...unpresumptuous eye, And smiling say — My Father made them all ! Are they not his by a peculiar right? And by an emphasis of interest his Whose eyes they fill with... | |
 | Thomas Taylor - 1833 - 512 pages
...field Of nature ; and though poor, perhaps, compared With those whose mansions glitter in his sight. Calls the delightful scenery all his own : His are...filial confidence inspired, Can lift to heaven an unpresnmptuons eye, And smiling say — My Father made them all ! Are they not his by a peculiar right... | |
 | Thomas Taylor (biographer.) - 1833 - 426 pages
...field Of nature; and though poor, perhaps, compared With those whose mansions glitter in his sight, Calls the delightful scenery all his own : His are...filial confidence inspired, Can lift to heaven an uupresumptuous eye, And smiling say — My Father made them all ! Are they not his by a peculiar right... | |
 | Charles Samuel Stewart - Islands of the Pacific - 1833 - 480 pages
...glitter in his sight. Calls the delightful scenery all his own. His are the mountains, and the Talleys his, And the resplendent rivers. His to enjoy W.ith...eye, And smiling say, " My Father made them all!" There is a public garden in the city, open on the eastern side to the bay, and in full view of the... | |
 | William Cowper - Authors, English - 1835 - 726 pages
...poor, perhaps, compar'd With those whose mansions glitter in his sight, Calls the delightful scen'ry all his own : His are the mountains, and the valleys...unpresumptuous eye, And smiling say — My Father made them all ! • Are they not his by a peculiar right, And by an emphasis of int'rest his, Whose eye they fill... | |
 | William Cowper - 1835 - 362 pages
...praeruptos sonantes, Inter aquas, nemorumque noctem." Or, as the same sentiment is expressed by Cowper, " His are the mountains, and the valleys his, And the...eye, And smiling say, — ' My Father made them all ! ' " . . . . It is striking to what an extent the greatest poets of all ages and countries have called... | |
 | Religion - 1835 - 440 pages
...field Of Nature ; and though poor, perhaps, compared With those whose mansions glitter in his sight, Calls the delightful scenery all his own : His are...enjoy With a propriety that none can feel, But who, wilh filial confidence inspired. Can lift to heaven an unpresumptuous eye. And smiling say — My father... | |
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