 Within that awful volume lies The mystery of mysteries! Happiest they of human race, To whom God has granted grace To read, to fear, to hope, to pray, To lift the latch, and force the way; And better had they ne'er been born, Who read, to doubt, or read...  Shetland and the Shetlanders: Or, The Northern Circuit - Page 355by Catherine Sinclair - 1840 - 428 pagesFull view - About this book
 | William Jerdan, William Ring Workman, Frederick Arnold, John Morley, Charles Wycliffe Goodwin - 1820 - 888 pages
...and solcinu, as, drooping her head, ana folding her arms on her bosom, she replied : " Within Hint awful volume lies The mystery of mysteries ! Happiest they of human race, To whom God has granted grace To read, to fear, to hope, to pray, 'I'n lift the latch, and force the way :... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1820 - 290 pages
...sad and solemn, as, drooping her head, and folding her arms on her bosom, she replied; " Within that awful volume lies The mystery of mysteries ! Happiest they of human race, To whom God has granted grace To read, to fear, to hope, to pray, To lift the latch, and force the way; And... | |
 | Walter Scott - Scotland - 1820 - 348 pages
...that awful volume lies The my tery of mysteries ! Happiest they of human race, To whom God has granted grace " To read, to fear, to hope, to pray; To lift the latch, and force the way ; And better had they ne'er been bom,Who read to doubt, or read to scorn. " Give... | |
 | Great Britain - 1820 - 866 pages
...that awful volume lies The mystery of mpterica! Hippicst they of human race, To whom God has granted grace To read, to fear, to hope, to pray, To lift the lutch, and force the way i And belter had they ne'er been born, Who read to doubt, or read to scorn."... | |
 | sir Walter Scott (bart [novels, collected]) - 1822 - 544 pages
...sad and solemn, as, drooping her head, and folding her arms on her bosom, she replied : " Within that awful volume lies The mystery of mysteries ! Happiest they of human race, To whom God has granted grace To read, to fear, to hope, to pray, To lift the latch, and force the way ; And... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1824 - 408 pages
...sad and solemn, as, drooping her head, and folding her arms on her bosom, she replied : " Within that awful volume lies The mystery of mysteries ! Happiest they of human race, To whom God has granted grace To read, to fear, to hope, to pray, To lift the latch, and force the way; And... | |
 | Christian poetry, English - 1828 - 398 pages
...Written by Lord Byrou, a few icccks before his death, on tfie blank leaf of a Bible.i/H til s"J ' -'•* WITHIN this awful volume lies The mystery of mysteries...grace To read, to fear, to hope, to pray, To lift the lateh, to force the way ; And better had they ne'er been born, Than read to doubt, or read to scorn.... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1830 - 382 pages
...sad and solemn, as, drooping her head, and folding her arms on her bosom, she replied : " Within that awful volume lies The mystery of mysteries ! Happiest they of human race, To whom God has granted grace To read, to fear, to hope, to pray, To lift the latch, and force the way ; And... | |
 | 1833 - 310 pages
...provinces, the yew tree and the church are coeval with each other. LINES ON THE BIBLE, BV Sill WALTER SCOTT. Within this awful volume lies The mystery of mysteries...God has given grace To read, to fear, to hope, to pruy, To lift the latch, to force the way; And hetter had they ne'er been horn Than read to doubt,... | |
 | Religion - 1837 - 234 pages
...time. LINES ON THE BIBLE. BY SIR WALTER SCOTT. Within this awful Volume lies The mystery of misteries ; Happiest they of human race To whom their God has given grace To read—to fear—to hope—to pray— To lift the latch, to force the way; And better had they ne'er... | |
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