 | 1824 - 494 pages
...generation born with them, nor seemed Less aged than the hoary trees and rocks Around them ; — and there have been holy men Who deemed it were not well...throws himself Upon the continent and overwhelms Its cities — who forgets not, at the sight Of these tremendous tokens of thy power, His pride, and lays... | |
 | Literature - 1825 - 492 pages
...when thou Dost scare the world with tempests, setl'st on fire The heavens with falling thunderholts, or fill'st With all the waters of the firmament The...throws himself Upon the continent and overwhelms Its cities — who forgets not, at the sight Of these tremendous tokens of thy power. His pride, and lays... | |
 | 1825 - 574 pages
...when thou Dost scare the world with tempests, sett'st on fire The heavens with falling tbunderbolts, or fill'st With all the waters of the firmament The...uproots the woods And drowns the villages ; when, at tby call, Uprises the great deep and throws himself Upon the continent and overwhelms Its cities —... | |
 | American poetry - 1826 - 192 pages
...generation born with them, nor seemed Less aged than the hoary trees and rocks Around them ; — and there have been holy men Who deemed it were not well...throws himself Upon the continent and overwhelms Its cities — who forgets not, at the sight Of these tremendous tokens of thy power, His pride, and lays... | |
 | 1826 - 524 pages
...not well to pass life thus. But let me often to these solitudes Retire, and in thy presence treasure My feeble virtue. Here its enemies, The passions,...throws himself Upon the continent and overwhelms Its cities — who forgets not, at the sight Of these tremendous tokens of thy power, His pride, and lays... | |
 | John Pierpont - Children's literature - 1828 - 320 pages
...thoo Dost scare the world with tempests, set on fire The heavens with falling thunderbolts, or fill, With all the waters of the firmament, The swift, dark...throws himself Upon the continent, and overwhelms Its cities ;—who forgets not, at the sight Of these tremendous tokens of thy power, His pride, and lays... | |
 | John Pierpont - Readers - 1829 - 290 pages
...thou Dost scare the world with tempests, set on fire The heavens with falling thunderbolts, or fill, With all the waters of the firmament, The swift, dark...throws himself Upon the continent, and overwhelms Its cities ; — who forgets not, at the sight Of these tremendous tokens of thy power, His pride, and... | |
 | Unitarianism - 1831 - 442 pages
...virtue. Here its enemies, The passions, at thy plainer footsteps, shrink, And tremble, and are still. O God! when Thou Dost scare the world with tempests,...throws himself Upon the continent, and overwhelms Its cities — who forgets not, at the sight Of these tremendous tokens of thy power, His pride, and lays... | |
 | Bela Bates Edwards - Theology - 1833 - 892 pages
...thou Dost scare the world with tempests, set on fire The heavens with falling thunderbolts, or fill, With all the waters of the firmament, The swift dark...throws himself Upon the continent and overwhelms Its cities — who forgets not, at the sight Of these tremendous tokens of thy power, His pride, and lays... | |
 | 1837 - 830 pages
...thou Dost scare the world with tempests, set on fire The heavens with falling thunderbolts, or fill With all the waters of the firmament The swift dark...whirlwind that uproots the woods, And drowns the villages. Here an ordinary writer would have preferred the word fright to scare, and omitted the definite article... | |
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God ! when thou Dost scare the world with tempests, set on fire The heavens with falling thunderbolts, or fill, With all the waters of the firmament, The swift dark whirlwind that uproots... 
