 | Jesse Olney - Readers - 1838 - 346 pages
...a dove, -/ How soon would I taste you again ! % r* My sorrows I then rtlfgl!PBSsuage« y**"-'- 4H. In the ways of religion and truth ; Might learn from...wisdom of age, And be cheer'd by the sallies of youth. 4. Religion ! what treasure untold Resides in that heavenly word ! More precious than silver or gold,... | |
 | Emily Taylor - American poetry - 1839 - 306 pages
...and love, Divinely bestow'd upon man, O had I the wings of a dove, How soon would I taste you again . My sorrows I then might assuage In the ways of religion...in that heavenly word ! More precious than silver and gold, Or all that this earth can afford : But the sound of the church-going bell These valleys... | |
 | William Cowper - 1839 - 554 pages
...love, Divinely bestow'd upon man, Oh had I the wings of a dove, How soon would I taste you again ! My sorrows I then might assuage In the ways of religion...treasure untold Resides in that heavenly word ! More preeious than silver and gold, Or all that this earth can afford. But the sound of the church-going... | |
 | John Angell James - Christian life - 1859 - 196 pages
...place, And mercy, encouraging thought ! Gives even affliction a grace, And reconciles man to his lot. " Religion ! what treasure untold, Resides in that heavenly word ! More precious than silver and gold, Or all that this earth can afford." And what an exquisite illustration of the power of religion... | |
 | William Cowper - English poetry - 1841 - 362 pages
...love, Divinely bestow'd upon man, O, had I the wings of a dove, How soon would I taste you again ! My sorrows I then might assuage In the ways of religion...in that heavenly word ! More precious than silver and gold, Or all that this earth can afford. But the sound of the church-going bell These valleys and... | |
 | Book - 1841 - 164 pages
...love, Divinely bestow'd upon man, O, had I the wings of a dove, How soon would I taste you again ! My sorrows I then might assuage In the ways of religion...what treasure untold Resides in that heavenly word ! But the sound of the church-going bell These valleys and rocks never heard ; Never sigh'd at the... | |
 | William Cowper - 1841 - 456 pages
...love, Divinely bestow'd upon man, O, had I the wings of a dove, How soon would I taste you again ! My sorrows I then might assuage In the ways of religion...age, And be cheer'd by the sallies of youth. Religion 1 what treasure untold Resides in that heavenly word ! More precious than silver and gold, Or all that... | |
 | William Cowper - 1841 - 260 pages
...and love, Divinely bestow'd upon man, O had I the wings of a dove, How soon would I taste you again ! My sorrows I then might assuage In the ways of religion...wisdom of age, And be cheer'd by the sallies of youth VERSES BY ALEXANDER SELKIRK. 179 IV. Religion ! what treasure untold Resides in that heavenly word... | |
 | Lindley Murray - Readers - 1842 - 262 pages
...Oh, had I the wings of a dove, How soon would I taste you again! My sorrows I then might assuage I.'i the ways of religion and truth ; Might learn from...wisdom of age, And be cheer'd by the sallies of youth. 4 Religion ! what treasure untold Resides in that heavenly word ! More precious than silver or gold,... | |
 | John Wilson - 1842 - 426 pages
...conclusion !" Surely the man who criticises the following stanza from Cowper's Alexander Selkirk, " Religion ! what treasure untold, Resides in that heavenly word ! More precious than silver and gold, Or all that this earth can afford !" in the following severe terms — " These four lines... | |
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Religion ! what treasure untold Resides in that heavenly word ! More precious than silver and gold, Or all that this earth can afford. 
