| Charlotte Fiske Bates - American poetry - 1832 - 1022 pages
...shore, Share, in the bosom of our rest. God's knowledge, and are blessed. FLOWERS WITHOUT FRUIT. PRUNE thou thy words, the thoughts control That o'er thee...condense within thy soul, And change to purpose strong. Bnt he who leta his feelings run In soft luxurious flow, Shrinks when hard service must be done, And... | |
| Lyra - Religious poetry, English - 1836 - 264 pages
...But, spoken twice, they mark instead A sin against the light. J. LXVII. DE£DS NOT WORDS. Prune them thy words, the thoughts control That o'er thee swell...And faints at every woe. Faith's meanest deed more favor bears, Where hearts and wills are weighed, Than brightest transports, choicest prayers, Which... | |
| Theology - 1836 - 814 pages
...words, the thoughts controul That o'er thee swell and throng ; They will condense within thy sou). And change to purpose strong. But he, who lets his...deed more favour bears. Where hearts and wills are weighed. Than brightest transports, choicest prayers, That bloom their hour, and fade. VOL. X.— August,... | |
| Religious poetry, English - 1837 - 282 pages
...unite ; But, spoken twice, they mark instead A sin against the light. LXVII. DEEDS NOT WORDS. Prune thou thy words, the thoughts control That o'er thee...And faints at every woe. Faith's meanest deed more favor bears, Where hearts and wills are weighed, Than brightest transports, choicest prayers, Which... | |
| Lyra - 1838 - 270 pages
...unite ; But, spoken twice, they mark instead A sin against the light. LXVIH. DEEDS NOT WORDS. PRUNE thou thy words, the thoughts control That o'er thee...And faints at every woe. Faith's meanest deed more favor bears, Where hearts and wills are weighed, Than brightest transports, choicest prayers, Which... | |
| Religious poetry, English - 1844 - 264 pages
...unite ; But, spoken twice, they mark instead A sin against the light. d. LXV1II. DEEDS NOT WORDS. PRUNE thou thy words, the thoughts control That o'er thee...condense within thy soul, And change to purpose strong. — * LXV1I. But he, who lets his feelings run In soft luxurious flow, Shrinks when hard service must... | |
| Henry Allon - Christianity - 1885 - 530 pages
...most expressive word and form. His instinctive feeling anticipated Cardinal Newman's rule — Prune thou thy words, the thoughts control That o'er thee...condense within thy soul. And change to purpose strong. We find to a very high degree in the Psalter the strength and nobleness of regulated, rather than unrestrained,... | |
| Elizabeth Missing Sewell - English fiction - 1847 - 338 pages
...small volume of poetry which lay beside him, " it expresses exactly what I mean : — " ' Prune them thy words, the thoughts control That o'er thee swell...within thy soul, And change to purpose strong.'" " But if a subject interests one greatly " began Margaret. " The more painful it will be to discuss it, when... | |
| Sydney Warburton - 1853 - 154 pages
...this subject without quoting in conclusion the well-known lines from the Lyra Apostolica : — " Prune thou thy words, the thoughts control That o'er thee...and throng ; They will condense within thy soul, And turn to purpose strong." ' FIFTH WEEK IN LENT. THE EXERCISE OF SELF-DENIAL IN INTELLECTUAL PURSUITS.... | |
| Philip Smith Sparling - 1854 - 136 pages
...fools to pass by without consideration." IZAAK WALTON. DEEDS, NOT WORDS. PRUNE thou thy words, thy thoughts control, That o'er thee swell and throng;...deed more favour bears Where hearts and wills are weighed, Than brightest transports, choicest prayers Which bloom their hour and fade. Lyra Apostolica.... | |
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